Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
Maulana As’ad Madani, 78, the Jamaat Ulema-i-Hind chief, freedom fighter, anti-terror and one-nation theory advocate, dies.
Col G.S. Dhillon, 93, Netaji aide and one of the three key officers to be tried in the famous 1945 INA trial, dies.
Malayalam litterateur Prof S. Guptan Nair, 86, dies. A "critic who went beyond isms", he was a colossus in Kerala’s cultural space for 50 years.
Sukhdeo Thorat, a professor of economics at JNU, Delhi, is the new UGC chairman.
An isolated forest in Indonesia’s Papua province Uncovers dozen of new species of frogs, birds, plants, near-extinct mammals.
Uttar Pradesh, under Mohd Kaif, wins the Ranji trophy for the first time.
