First Indian Women

First Woman in India

●Prime-Minister—Indira Gandhi

●Woman (India and World) who crossed English Channel through Swimming—Arti Shah

●Governor—Sarojini Naidu (U. P.)

●I. P. S.—Kiran Bedi

●President of National Congress—Anne Besant

●Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission—Rose-William Baithu

●Winner of Nobel Prize—Mother Teresa (for peace)

●Awardee of Miss World—Reeta Farhia

●Awardee of Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen

●Mayer—Tara Charian (Madras-1957)

●Minister in Central Cabinet—Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

●Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani

●Parliamentrian—Radhabai Subbarayan (1938)

●Judge of Supreme Court—Justice Meera Sahaib Fatima Bibi

●Chief Justice of High Court—Justice Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh)

●Session Judge of the Counting—Anna Chandi (Kerala)

●Mountaineer who climbed (Conquered) the Mt.Everest—Bacchendri Pal

●Awardee of Norman Barlog Prize—Dr. Amrita Patil

●Literature who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award—Amrita Pritam (1956)

●Honoured with ‘Bharat Ratna’—Indira Gandhi

●Awardee of Lenin peace award—Aruna Asaf Ali

●Awardee of Jananpith Purshkar—Asha Purna Devi (1976)

●Woman who reached ‘Antarctica’—Mahel Musa (1977)

●Woman who reached the North Pole—Pritisu Gupta (1993)

●Woman who travelled All round the world—Ujjawala Patil (1988) by Boat

●Chief Engineer—P. K. Tresia Naguli

●Pilot—Flying Officer Sushma Mukhopaddhyaya

●Air Lines Pilot—Capt. Durga Banerjee

●Commander of Boeing 737 Plane—Capt. Saudamini Deshmukh

●Paratrooper of Indian Air Force—Geeta Ghosh

●I. A. S.—Auna George Malhotra

●First television news broadcaster—Pratima Puri

●Participated in mustic programme of U.N.O.—M. S. Subbuluxmi (1966)

●Woman participated in Olympic games—Meri Lila Row (1952)

●Woman who won the medal in Olympic games—Malleshwari (weight lifting—Sydney)

●Woman who won the Gold Medal in Asian games—Kamaljeet Sidhu (1970, 400 metre)

●Woman who won the medal in Commonwealth games—Anil Ghiya and Kawal Thakur Singh (woman

Current Pulitzer Prizes Winners List

Pulitzer Prizes 2012 Presented
The prestigious Pulitzer Prizes in the field of journalism were presented on April 16, 2012. There were 21 prizes awarded in three categories. Each prize was accompanied by a payment of $ 10,000. The winners list is listed ahead :

Journalism
Public Service—The Philadelphia Inquirer ‘‘for its exploration of pervasive violence in the city’s schools.”

Breaking News Reporting—The Tuscaloosa News staff ‘‘for its enterprising coverage of a deadly tornado.”

Investigative Reporting—Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press “for their spotlighting of the New York Police Department’s clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities.”

Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times “for their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer paincontrol medication to methadone.”

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Green Warrior and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai is No More

Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to be come the first African woman

to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died late on September 25, 2011 after battling cancer. She was 71.

 

Maathai, one of the most famous and widely respected women on the continent, wore many hats—environmentalist, feminist, politician, anti-corruption campaigner, human rights advocate, protester and head of the Green Belt Movement she founded. She was as comfortable in the greety streets of Nairobi’s slums or the muddy hillsides of Central Kenya as she was hobnobbing with heads of state. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

 

Maathai toured the world speaking out against environmental degradation and poverty—which she believed were intimately connected—but never lost focus on her native Kenya. She served as a parliamentarian and assistant minister for several years, and in 2008, after being pushed out of government, she was teargassed by Kenyan police during a  protest against the excesses of Kenya’s well-entrenched political class.

 

“Wangari Maathai was known to speak truth to power,” said John Githongo, and anti-corruption campaigner in Kenya who was forced into exile for several years for his own  outspoken views. “She blazed a trail in whatever she did, whether it was in the environment, politics, whatever.” 

 

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya, a mid-sized town in the foothills of Mount Kenya. She won a scholarship to study biology in the US, and went on to

obtain a doctorate in veterinary anatomy. She formed the Green Belt Movement in 1977 which planted trees across Kenya to fight erosion and create fuel and jobs for women.

During the 1980s, the Kenyan government labelled the Green Belt Movement ‘subversive’. Not long afterward, during a protest, Maathai was beaten unconscious by police.

Home life wasn’t easy either. Her husband, Mwangi, divorced her, saying she was too strong-minded for a woman. When she lost her divorce case and criticized the judge, she was thrown in jail.

 

Her battle with cancer was a surprise to many in Nairobi. She is survived by three children, Waweru, Wanjira and Muta, and a granddaughter Ruth Wangari.

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Libyans Focus on Reconciliation Rebuildingsit amet

Now that the rebels in Libya are in virtual control of Libya and the dictator Muammar Gaddafi is running from pillar to post in a bid to seek refuge and save himself and his family,

 the Libyans are focussing on reconciliation and rebuilding of the nation. The civil war has left scars on Libyan polity which will take time to heal. It is in the backdrop of this scenario that Libya’s new leadership reaffirmed its commitment to democracy on September 2, 2011 and worked on its priorities for sending billions of dollars released from the frozen assets of fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

 

A day after international powers met in Paris and agreed to hand over more than $ 15 billion to the rebels who overthrew Gaddafi, the European Union rescinded a range of sanctions and officials from the National Transitional Council (NTC) ex-plained their rebuilding plans.

 

The NTC representative in London said that work on putting right the damage of 42 years of eccentric one-man rule and of six months of civil war should not wait until Gaddafi is found and the last bastions of armed support for him are defeated.

 

“As long as Tripoli is stabilized and secure and safe, which it almost is now, and the overwhelming majority of other cities and towns, then Libyans can get on with the process of transition and stabilization and the new political process,” Guma El-Gamaty told the BBC.