Saturday, 4 April 2026

Women’s rights champion Sukumari Sekhar dies

KUALA LUMPUR: Puan Sri Sukumari Sekhar, one of Malaysia’s earliest champions of women’s rights, died yesterday, which was International Women’s Day. Sukumari, wife of the late Tan Sri B. C. Sekhar, who revolutionised Malaysia’s rubber industry, died at 11.20 pm at the Cardiac Vascular Sentral Kuala Lumpur. She was 87. “It is with deep sorrow […]