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India’s oldest midwife demises

Sulagitti Narasamma started helping in deliveries in her 20s.

Know the 2018 Padma Awardees

Many of the Padma Shri awardees are normal citizens who do ‘extraordinary’ things for the country like serving the poor, establishing free schools etc.

Once a child bride, now

Phoolbasan Bai Yadav consolidated various groups under the Maan Bamleshwari Janhit Kare Samiti, an NGO named after Goddess Durga.

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Born in that stupendous year of 1947, in Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka, he moved to Bangalore at 16 and began to work as a