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Former Champions Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu Get Top Billing As India Open Returns After Two-years Hiatus
Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist and India's shuttle queen P V Sindhu will lead the charge in the women's singles section which also has the likes of two-time champion Saina Nehwal, Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan, and Singapore's up and coming Jia Min Yeo.
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"Pink Shuttle" Helps Afghanistan Women Navigate Conservative Society
In an ultra-patriarchal society where it remains rare to see a woman behind the wheel, Haidary is one of four drivers working for Pink Shuttle, a pilot bus programme employing only women to ferry female passengers and their kids across the Afghan capital.
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Newborn Dies On Stairs After Being Shunted Between Hospital Wings In UP
A four-day-old infant died after being shuttled between two wings of a government hospital in western Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly for over three hours on Wednesday. The Uttar Pradesh government has suspended the presiding doctor of one hospital wing and initiated departmental action against the official in charge of the other.
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Kalpana Chawla Death Anniversary: 10 Interesting Facts About First Woman Astronaut Of Indian Origin
Kalpana Chawla, an American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in space, was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003. Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second Indian person to fly in...
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Women At Wheel Of 'Pink Taxis' Challenge Jordan Norms
Nisrin Akoubeh checks the oil and water before getting into her taxi and pulling into Amman's heavy traffic for another day of shuttling fellow women across the Jordanian capital.
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Before ISRO's Flight, India's Wings To Space Shuttle Dream Were 2 Women
On Monday, India is all set to launch its first indigenous space shuttle - the Reusable Launch Vehicle or RLV. Before this project, two of its most prominent ties to its American roots were two of its daughters.
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Sally Ride obit acknowledges she was gay
At 32, Sally Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be America's first woman in space. Ride inspired women the world over with her historic shuttle flight into space in 1983 and for blazing into NASA's exclusively male astronaut club.
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Woman power in space: 4 women in orbit at same time
One woman already is circling Earth in a Russian capsule, bound for the International Space Station. Early Monday morning, NASA will attempt to launch three more women to the orbiting outpost, along with four men, aboard shuttle Discovery.
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Former Champions Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu Get Top Billing As India Open Returns After Two-years Hiatus
Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist and India's shuttle queen P V Sindhu will lead the charge in the women's singles section which also has the likes of two-time champion Saina Nehwal, Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan, and Singapore's up and coming Jia Min Yeo.
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"Pink Shuttle" Helps Afghanistan Women Navigate Conservative Society
In an ultra-patriarchal society where it remains rare to see a woman behind the wheel, Haidary is one of four drivers working for Pink Shuttle, a pilot bus programme employing only women to ferry female passengers and their kids across the Afghan capital.
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Newborn Dies On Stairs After Being Shunted Between Hospital Wings In UP
A four-day-old infant died after being shuttled between two wings of a government hospital in western Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly for over three hours on Wednesday. The Uttar Pradesh government has suspended the presiding doctor of one hospital wing and initiated departmental action against the official in charge of the other.
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Kalpana Chawla Death Anniversary: 10 Interesting Facts About First Woman Astronaut Of Indian Origin
Kalpana Chawla, an American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in space, was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003. Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second Indian person to fly in...
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Women At Wheel Of 'Pink Taxis' Challenge Jordan Norms
Nisrin Akoubeh checks the oil and water before getting into her taxi and pulling into Amman's heavy traffic for another day of shuttling fellow women across the Jordanian capital.
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Before ISRO's Flight, India's Wings To Space Shuttle Dream Were 2 Women
On Monday, India is all set to launch its first indigenous space shuttle - the Reusable Launch Vehicle or RLV. Before this project, two of its most prominent ties to its American roots were two of its daughters.
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Sally Ride obit acknowledges she was gay
At 32, Sally Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be America's first woman in space. Ride inspired women the world over with her historic shuttle flight into space in 1983 and for blazing into NASA's exclusively male astronaut club.
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Woman power in space: 4 women in orbit at same time
One woman already is circling Earth in a Russian capsule, bound for the International Space Station. Early Monday morning, NASA will attempt to launch three more women to the orbiting outpost, along with four men, aboard shuttle Discovery.
