Mom-Daughter Duo Gets PhD Degrees On the Same Day

For the first time in Delhi University, a mother and daughter become PhD doctors, on the same day!

28-year-old Shreya Mishra, and her mother, Mala Dutta, 56, are the first mother -daughter duo to receive their PhD degrees on the same day from Delhi University!

Fareeha Iftikhar of Hindustan Times reports that while Mala, an Indian Economic Service officer working with the defence ministry, had begun working on her PhD in finance in 2012, her daughter, Shreya, who works as a consultant at the World Bank, registered for her PhD in psychology two years later.