Sarla Maheshwari, a pioneering Doordarshan newsreader from 1976 to 2005, passed away in Delhi at 71. She was one of the most recognisable faces of Indian TV news in the 1980s and 1990s

Twenty-seven years after the incident that shocked Mumbai, Jayabala Ashar shares her message of hope; on October 26, 1998, Ashar was pushed off a moving local train between Charni Road and Grant Road stations after resisting the accused