Eminent Persons
Fathima Beevi dies at 96
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- Justice Fathima Beevi died at a private hospital in Kerala’s Kollam.
- She was India’s first woman judge of the Supreme Court.
- She was the first woman from the Muslim community to be a part of the higher judiciary.
She served as the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 1997-2001.
Appointments
First Indian woman to be reelected to IRU board
- Indian Cooperative Network for Women (ICNW) president Nandini Azad was re-elected to the board of International Raiffeisen Union (IRU), one of the oldest cooperative unions in the world.
- She is the first Indian woman to be reelected to the board of IRU for the second time.
