Category: Women / Girls

** PM Modi inaugurates modern Rani Kamalapati railway station in Bhopal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the revamped Rani Kamalapati railway station, earlier known as Habibganj, in the Madhya Pradesh capital.

This station, recently named after the queen of Bhopal’s Gond kingdom , has the first central concourse with connectivity to all platforms with modern world-class facilities.

** CFTRI Scientist Develops New Beverage From Coffee Leaves

However, some producers have decided to diversify the crops that they grow and sell. As coffee leaves are constantly being produced, growers can harvest them in the off-season if there is demand, according to Pushpa S. Murthy, Principal Scientist (Spice and Flavour Science Department) of CFTRI.

** Falguni Nayar: The Nykaa among Nayaks

With a worth of Rs 58,635 cr following her beauty business’s market debut, Falguni Nayar has joined India’s billionaire club.

No one who knows the middle-class Gujarati girl who aced IIM, had a long successful banking career, and then took a giant leap into a new, unknown field at 50 is surprised.

** Habibganj is now Rani Kamlapati station: Changing a railway station name, explained

It is a common misconception that Indian Railways can change the name of its stations. That is not the case.

The name of Bhopal’s Habibganj railway station has been changed to Rani Kamlapati station. The BJP government of Madhya Pradesh proposed this to the Centre last week, which gave the clearance without any delay.

This is to coincide with the inauguration of the station, which has been redeveloped at a cost of around Rs 100 crore with private participation — a first such large-scale PPP model in station redevelopment in India, in the works for the past few years.

** In post-poaching era, Bodo wives become role model with culinary skills at Manas National Park in Assam

These women in and around Basbari range used their traditional culinary skills by offering Bodo dishes to tourists coming to the famed Manas National Park, known for one-horned rhino and Royal Bengal Tiger, but the endeavour initially floundered due to absence of entrepreneurial skills.

Mitali G Dutta, a culinary entrepreneur, came to know about their attempts and came forward to help these poor women in association with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) by skilling them and helping them market

** Woman IPS probationer to lead Dikshant Parade for third consecutive year

Dr. Darpan Ahluwalia, a woman IPS probationer borne on Punjab cadre is the sixth woman in the history of the academy to command the parade. 

Last year, Ranjitha Sharma of Rajasthan cadre and Kiran Shruthi D.V. of Tamil Nadu cadre in 2019 led the Dikshant Parades.

Darpan Ahluwalia is the overall topper of Basic Course Phase-I training and bagged Martyr KS Vyas Trophy for Internal Security and Public Order and Field Crafts and Tactics

** Shortlist announced for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021

The six shortlisted books this year provide creative insights into the history of India — its diversity, difference, heterogeneity, and the very idea of the nation state.

The selected books are: The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country by Ashutosh Bhardwaj (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins Publishers); India’s First Dictatorship: The Emergency, 1975-77 by Christophe Jaffrelot & Pratinav Anil (HarperCollins Publishers): Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism by Dinyar Patel (Harvard University Press); Gandhi in the Gallery: The Art of Disobedience by Sumathi Ramaswamy (Roli Books); The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict 1914-1921 by Radhika Singha (HarperCollins Publishers); Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi by Vinay Sitapati (Penguin Random House).