Google remembers Bengali poet Kamini Roy

Kolkata: Google on Saturday paid homage to Bengali poet-reformer and India’s first woman honours graduate Kamini Roy on the 155th birth anniversary of the leading campaigner of voting rights for women. Roy, one of the first girls in British India to attend school, was born on October 12, 1864, at Basanda village in then Bakergunj district of undivided Bengal — an area now part of neighbouring Bangladesh's Barisal district. PTI

Nobel literature body’s 1st woman head dies  

Helsinki: Sara Danius, the first woman head of the prestigious Swedish body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. She was 57. Her family told Swedish news agency TT that Danius passed away early Saturday following long illness. Swedish media said she had breast cancer. Danius, who was a literature critic, professor and writer, served as the first female permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy between 2015 and 2018. AP