First Indian Woman Doctor

Surgeons led by an Indian-origin doctor have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus, a surgery believed to be the first of its kind in the US since the pandemic began.

Arunima Sinha, the Indian mountaineer who became the world's first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by a prestigious UK university for her inspirational achievements.

In Kerala, a doctor was first lowered from the chopper to examine her condition before she was airlifted and taken to INHS Sanjivani hospital in Kerala's Kochi.

Anandi Joshi was born as Yamuna on 31st March 1865 to a Brahmin family settled in Kalyan in present-day Maharashtra. Keeping with the practice of that time, Yamuna was married to a widower, almost 20 years her senior, at the age of nine. She was renamed Anandi after her marriage.

A 44-year-old Indian-origin woman doctor has been arrested and charged with performing genital mutilation on girls aged 6 to 8, believed to be the first such in the US.

In case you need some inspiration, not just to make it through yet another Monday (or the week that'll follow it) but also through life in general, look no further than this Mumbai woman who became India's first woman commando trainer though sheer determination. Her story, shared on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page, has touched a chord with sever...

Surgeons led by an Indian-origin doctor have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus, a surgery believed to be the first of its kind in the US since the pandemic began.

Arunima Sinha, the Indian mountaineer who became the world's first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by a prestigious UK university for her inspirational achievements.

In Kerala, a doctor was first lowered from the chopper to examine her condition before she was airlifted and taken to INHS Sanjivani hospital in Kerala's Kochi.

Anandi Joshi was born as Yamuna on 31st March 1865 to a Brahmin family settled in Kalyan in present-day Maharashtra. Keeping with the practice of that time, Yamuna was married to a widower, almost 20 years her senior, at the age of nine. She was renamed Anandi after her marriage.

A 44-year-old Indian-origin woman doctor has been arrested and charged with performing genital mutilation on girls aged 6 to 8, believed to be the first such in the US.

In case you need some inspiration, not just to make it through yet another Monday (or the week that'll follow it) but also through life in general, look no further than this Mumbai woman who became India's first woman commando trainer though sheer determination. Her story, shared on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page, has touched a chord with sever...