Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen has been conferred with the International Association of Working Women Award at the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival 2021.
The woman is a leukaemia patient and received a stem cell transplant from someone with natural resistance to the Aids-causing virus. An umbilical cord blood transplant was done, as a part of her cancer treatment.
In tennis, World Number 1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia defeated Danielle Collins of the US, 6-3 7-6, to win the women's singles final title at the Australian Open 2022.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya released a commemorative postal stamp on the Covid-19 vaccination, to mark one year of the Covid inoculation drive.
The city of Kochi in Kerala has become the first city in the country to have a water metro project after the launch of its first boat in December 2021.
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