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Rachel Kelly becomes Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's first-ever female principal tuba player
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Rachel Kelly becomes Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's first-ever female principal tuba player

ABC  

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's principal tuba position is now held by a woman for the first time in the orchestra's 75 year history. While the tuba weighs in at more than 10 kilograms, newly appointed principal tuba Rachel Kelly said the key to success wasn't strength. "Sometimes if things are really low or really loud and I'm just breathing huge …

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Man held for duping 16 women he met through matrimonial sites
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Man held for duping 16 women he met through matrimonial sites

Hindustan Times  

A 39-year-old man has been arrested on Tuesday for allegedly duping 16 women of nearly ₹8 lakh after contacting them through different matrimonial websites using a fake profile, senior police officers said. Police said he used to modulate his voice over phone calls to pose as his the “prospective groom’s father” to make the women believe that the proposal was …

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Kenyan man being held over the discovery of dismembered female bodies escapes from police custody
4 months ago

Kenyan man being held over the discovery of dismembered female bodies escapes from police custody

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — A suspect who police said confessed to killing 42 women and was being detained over the discovery of dismembered bodies in Kenya’s capital has escaped from police custody, officials said Tuesday. Mohamed Amin, the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha escaped along with 12 other inmates of Eritrean nationality who had been …

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Nobody will be allowed to play with future of youngsters: U.P. CM
4 months ago

Nobody will be allowed to play with future of youngsters: U.P. CM

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said “nobody will be allowed to play with the future of youngsters”. “The time when uncle and nephew and their goons used to go out for recovery whenever recruitment was announced has passed,” Yogi said in an apparent attack on the Samajwadi Party leadership. The CM was addressing an event held for …

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Jarange calls Shinde government’s cash transfer scheme for women ‘political ploy’
5 months ago

Jarange calls Shinde government’s cash transfer scheme for women ‘political ploy’

Deccan Chronicle  

Mumbai: After the Opposition parties, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Saturday alleged that the Eknath Shinde government’s ‘CM my beloved sister’ scheme is politically motivated. The quota activist said that the state government is trying to fool the people with schemes like ‘CM Ladki Bahin’, under which women having less than Rs 2.50 lakh annual family income will get …

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Teenager held in UK for attack in gurdwara
5 months, 1 week ago

Teenager held in UK for attack in gurdwara

Hindustan Times  

A 17-year-old boy was caught after two women were injured in a suspected religiously aggravated attack at a gurdwara in Kent, southeast England, local police said on Friday. Kent Police said its officers were called to the Sri Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara on Thursday evening to investigate reports that a male attempted to assault members of the gathering using a …

Gurdwara
Despite Indiana’s strong record of second-in-command women, they’ve never held its highest office
7 months, 1 week ago

Despite Indiana’s strong record of second-in-command women, they’ve never held its highest office

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Women have never held Indiana’s top office, but their streak as the state’s second-in-command appears to be going strong heading into the fall elections. Indiana is one of 18 states to never elect a woman as governor, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women in Politics, even as four of the state’s past five lieutenant governors have …

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West Bengal BJP leader held for running sex racket in Howrah, claims TMC
10 months ago

West Bengal BJP leader held for running sex racket in Howrah, claims TMC

Hindustan Times  

Amid the blazing row over the allegations of sexual violence against women in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali, the ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday claimed that the state police has arrested BJP leader Sabyasachi Ghosh for allegedly running a prostitution racket of minor girls in Howrah. West Bengal BJP leader Sabyasachi Ghosh TMC further claimed that the police have arrested 11 accused …

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'Monsters': Ukrainian Women Recount Horror of 'Packed Cells, Hunger, Abuse, Humiliation' in Russian Jails
2 years, 1 month ago

'Monsters': Ukrainian Women Recount Horror of 'Packed Cells, Hunger, Abuse, Humiliation' in Russian Jails

News 18  

When Ukrainian medic Tetyana Vasylchenko was released from Russian captivity and, on the bus back to freedom, handed a Ukrainian flag, she finally broke down. “But when I was given a Ukrainian flag on the bus, I burst out crying.” Vasylchenko and 107 other women were freed from Russian detention last week as part of a long-negotiated prisoner exchange with …

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Hyderabad: 2 Burqa-clad women held for vandalising Durga statue
2 years, 2 months ago

Hyderabad: 2 Burqa-clad women held for vandalising Durga statue

Op India  

Two Muslim women were detained on Tuesday for reportedly vandalising the idol of goddess Durga at a Navratri pandal in Hyderabad. The ladies barged into a pandal in the city’s Khairatabad locality and smashed a portion of the Durga statue, according to Hyderabad Police. DCP, Central Zone, Hyderabad, said, “In the morning we received a call that two ladies have …

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Andhra Man Held for Duping Over 30 Single Women of Gold After Posing as Multi-millionaire
2 years, 4 months ago

Andhra Man Held for Duping Over 30 Single Women of Gold After Posing as Multi-millionaire

News 18  

The Krishna Lanka police have arrested a man for allegedly duping as many as 30 women across cities after befriending them in the pretext of doing gold business. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Vishal Gunni said that gold ornaments weighing 97.5 grams have been seized during his arrest on Thursday. In a similar way, in July, he stole a …

Women Gold Man Krishna Grams Chandra Vijayawada
Viswanathan Anand: Would be good if women's chess became more competitive
2 years, 5 months ago

Viswanathan Anand: Would be good if women's chess became more competitive

The Hindu  

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday hoped for more women’s chess players to break through the ranks in the country. “It is very easy to feel very optimistic about India’s youngsters on the boys side but not on the girls side,” Anand said during a panel discussion titled - Chess and Chennai. It has to be done more consciously.” …

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My heart and body shake: Afghan women defy Taliban
2 years, 10 months ago

My heart and body shake: Afghan women defy Taliban

India Today  

One after the other, quickly, carefully, keeping their heads down, a group of Afghan women step into a small Kabul apartment block -- risking their lives as a nascent resistance against the Taliban. Hoda Khamosh, a published poet and former NGO worker who organised workshops to help empower women, was one of a few women flown to Norway to meet …

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Three Persons Held in Odisha's Kalahandi For 'Killing' Newborn To Hide Illicit Affair
3 years, 4 months ago

Three Persons Held in Odisha's Kalahandi For 'Killing' Newborn To Hide Illicit Affair

News 18  

Three persons, including two women, from Kalahandi district have been arrested for killing their new-born children born out-of-wedlock while they were working in Goa. While other co-workers managed to return to their native places once the lockdown was declared, Gurbari along with Gayatri stayed at Goa and continued to work in a building construction work at Saper. Naik also had …

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Commonwealth Games 2022 women's T20 competition to be held from 29 July to 7 August
3 years, 6 months ago

Commonwealth Games 2022 women's T20 competition to be held from 29 July to 7 August

Firstpost  

The group stage matches of the eight-team competition are slated to be held till 4 August and the semi-finals are scheduled for 6 August. New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games’ women’s T20 competition, which will make its debut at the quadrennial showpiece next year, will be held from 29 July to 7 August at the Edgbaston Stadium, the organisers announced on …

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Bronze-Age Era Women in Europe Held Positions of Power, Finds Study
3 years, 9 months ago

Bronze-Age Era Women in Europe Held Positions of Power, Finds Study

News 18  

In today’s world where slogans like women empowerment and future is female are omnipresent, it might come as a revelation for some that the past was already ruled by women. In recent research published this week in the Antiquity journal, an international team of scientists have speculated that a woman buried nearly 4,000 years ago in what is modern-day Spain …

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Posing as a British citizen, Delhi man dupes women on matrimony sites, held
4 years, 3 months ago

Posing as a British citizen, Delhi man dupes women on matrimony sites, held

India Today  

A Munirka, Delhi resident has been arrested for duping women on matrimony sites. The accused Vishal Tokas's bank account with the cheated amount of Rs 4.6 lakh has also been frozen by the police. However, after receiving the money, the accused stopped taking the calls of the complainant and vanished," said a police official. Upon interrogation, Vishal revealed that he …

Delhi Money Accused Vishal