{"id":8319,"date":"2018-01-28T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourchennai.com\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2018-01-28T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T15:58:07","slug":"president-kovind-felicitates-radhika-aggarwal-indias-first-lady-e-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/28\/president-kovind-felicitates-radhika-aggarwal-indias-first-lady-e-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind felicitates Radhika Aggarwal as India\u2019s \u2018First Lady\u2019 in e-Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Co-founder and CBO of ShopClues, <strong>Radhika Aggarwal<\/strong> was\u00a0felicitated by President Ram Nath Kovind for being the <strong>\u2018First Lady\u2019 in e-commerce<\/strong> to co-found a unicorn company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8321\" src=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/First-Ladies-of-India-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"First Ladies of India\" width=\"715\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/First-Ladies-of-India-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/First-Ladies-of-India-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/First-Ladies-of-India-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/First-Ladies-of-India.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/>Radhika was among the 112 women pioneers chosen for the prestigious <strong>WCD First Ladies Achievement Award<\/strong>. These achievers were chosen by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development for their contribution towards women empowerment and being an inspiration to millions of women who want to make a mark for themselves in society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with Radhika, there were 111 other \u2018First Ladies\u2019 from different walks of life, including Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, for being the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival, Selvi Gowda for becoming India\u2019s first woman taxi driver, Naina Lal Kidwai for being the first woman president of the premier industry body FICCI and Dr. Indira Hinduja for being the first Indian gynaecologist to deliver India\u2019s first test tube baby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8320\" src=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-as-Indias-First-Lady-in-e-Commerce-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Radhika Aggarwal as India's 'First Lady' in e-Commerce\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-as-Indias-First-Lady-in-e-Commerce-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-as-Indias-First-Lady-in-e-Commerce-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-as-Indias-First-Lady-in-e-Commerce-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-as-Indias-First-Lady-in-e-Commerce-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-as-Indias-First-Lady-in-e-Commerce-215x215.jpg 215w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-as-Indias-First-Lady-in-e-Commerce.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Commenting on the award, Radhika Aggarwal, Co-Founder &amp; CBO, ShopClues, said,<\/strong><em> \u201cI\u2019m humbled by the honour bestowed upon me and accept it with all humility. It is a recognition for every woman of India, who every single day contributes immensely to retain our social fabric. More than an individual accomplishment, this award is for all of us and particularly for the unsung heroes of India.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-founder and CBO of ShopClues, Radhika Aggarwal was\u00a0felicitated by President Ram Nath Kovind for being the \u2018First Lady\u2019 in e-commerce to co-found a unicorn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30],"tags":[11423,6298,2765,11422,11421,11420,10943,11424],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-companies-economy","category-news-business-political-national-realestate","tag-cbo","tag-co-founder","tag-e-commerce","tag-first-lady","tag-president-kovind","tag-radhika-aggarwal","tag-shopclues","tag-unicorn-company"],"views":1439,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radhika-Aggarwal-honoured-with-the-WCD-First-Ladies-Achievement-Award.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8323,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/8323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}