Indian women in STEM: Quick Facts

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Portrait of Rajeshwari Chatterjee wearing glasses and a sari, with a small bindi on her forehead, looking at the camera; Indian scientist, the first woman engineer India

Leading India's Agni missile projects

Designing India's interplanetary precision

Mars Orbiter Mission

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