rukhmabai

In the sepia photograph in which a sari-clad, grown-up rukhmabai is resting her fullsleeved right hand lightly on a pedestal, though, you won’t be able to see the girl who was married off at age 11 to Dadaji Bhikaji, a relative of her liberal stepfather Dr Sakharam Arjun, one of two founders of the Bombay Natural History Society.

'Tannishtha Chatterjee' has been signed up to play India's first practising lady doctor, rukhmabai.

It was a Google Doodle of rukhmabai Raut, a child bride who was not only one of India's first divorcees but also a pathbreaking female doctor, that led London-based journalist and author Kavitha Rao down an enchanting rabbit hole from which emerged her book 'Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine'.

The cotton belt of Vidarbha reports the highest farmer suicides in the country, but the distress of women cultivators is rarely recorded.

The government has been preparing drafts of a law to deal with khap panchayats which seldom flinch in ordering killing of youngsters who elope and get married.

A drunk man objects to his wife being in an inebriated condition, picks up a fight and assaults her with an axe leading to her death.

Treatment by a doctor with doubtful credentials seems to the reason behind the death of a woman farm labourer.rukhmabai Kale, a resident of Kothli (Bhagat) village near here, was suffering from fever since four days.

The voting percentage in Akola was 58.53 as compared to 47% polling in 2009.The voting process also saw some interesting incidents.

Not many would know that miles away from the British cemetery in Katargam lies a tomb of popular English traveller, or even that Gopipura once housed a court much before the Bahumali campus in Nanpura came into existence.

A court in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday sentenced three Maoists to life in prison in connection with murder former transport minister Likhiram Kawre.

Inspirational stories of India's premier women doctors like Anandibai Joshee, the first female physician, Mary Poonen Lukose, the first female surgeon general, and Muthulakshmi Reddi, the first woman to work as a surgeon in a government hospital, will be part of a new book.

After the Busan International Film Festival, the filmmaker's ‘Bittersweet’ has been selected at the Kolkata International Film Festival 2020

Two persons were killed and 12 critically injured after a speeding passenger bus collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction near Ratnamala Square in Warora on Chandrapur-Nagpur national highway on Friday evening.

The 65-year-old diva was presented with the honour by the Indian American philanthropist Frank Islam.

The Nashik district administration has for the second time missed the deadline set for completion of joint measurement for the Nashik stretch of state government’s ambitious Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Super Communication Highway project.

Despite a good monsoon and, all rivers and dams overflowing in Vidarbha, almost 10 to 12 lakh citizens in east, north and parts of south Nagpur will have to face severe water shortage for the next 10 days.

Implicit bias, family pressures and gender stereotype are preventing women from pursuing STEM careers beyond the postdoctoral level, writes Rajlakshmi Ghosh