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BJP, JDS In Firefighting Mode Over Deve Gowda's Grandson's Sex Scandal
JDS lawmaker Sharangouda Kandkur has demanded the suspension of party leader Prajwal Revanna amid a row over explicit videos - allegedly showing the Hassan MP sexually assaulting multiple women - that began circulating a day after voting.
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3 Dead In Major Fire At Rubber Factory In Delhi, Search And Rescue Ops On
Three people, including two women have died in a major fire that broke out this morning at a rubber factory in northeast Delhi's Jhilmil industrial area. 26 fire engines were sent to the spot shortly after the fire broke out at around 9 am.
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International Women's Day: Delhi Panel for Women Felicitates Achievers
A hearing-impaired international badminton player, India's first female stunt rider and firefighter, and crew members of Air India were awarded by the Delhi Commission for Women on the occasion of International Women's Day.
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Man Sets Woman Ablaze On Bus In Peru, Injures Ten Others
Ten people were treated for burns after a man doused a woman with gasoline and set her alight inside a public bus in the Peruvian capital Lima, firefighters said.
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Rajasthan's Women Firefighters Show What They're Made Of
Married before her 18th birthday, Nirma Chaudhary could have ended up like thousands of other child brides in Rajasthan - forced to quit school and consigned to a life as a wife and mother.
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Three charged over 1,000 prank calls to Paris fire-fighters
Three young French women are facing possible jail time and heavy fines for making nearly 1,000 prank calls to Paris fire-fighters over more than a year, police said.
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Canada ahead of US in allowing women in combat
On May 17, 2006, in a firefight with Afghan Taliban insurgents, Canadian forces lost an artillery officer hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade. She was Capt. Nichola Goddard, the first Canadian woman to be killed in action since her country's 1989 decision to admit women soldiers into combat.
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Senior rescued after fingers were tapped in ATM machine
Australian firefighters on Thursday performed one of their most unusual rescues -- freeing an elderly woman whose fingers got stuck in a bank ATM.The fire service was called to a hospital in Sydney after security guards found the women distressed with three of her fingers jammed in the slot that dispenses cash, ABC radio reported.
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Mumbai fire brigade gets first women firefighters
The Fire Brigade in Mumbai has for the first time appointed two women who will become firefighters. The two firewomen selected for the job are Swati Satpute from Dombivali and Sheetal Salve from Dharavi who were selected from the 14 applicants who had applied for the job. "The final induction of the t...
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BJP, JDS In Firefighting Mode Over Deve Gowda's Grandson's Sex Scandal
JDS lawmaker Sharangouda Kandkur has demanded the suspension of party leader Prajwal Revanna amid a row over explicit videos - allegedly showing the Hassan MP sexually assaulting multiple women - that began circulating a day after voting.
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3 Dead In Major Fire At Rubber Factory In Delhi, Search And Rescue Ops On
Three people, including two women have died in a major fire that broke out this morning at a rubber factory in northeast Delhi's Jhilmil industrial area. 26 fire engines were sent to the spot shortly after the fire broke out at around 9 am.
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International Women's Day: Delhi Panel for Women Felicitates Achievers
A hearing-impaired international badminton player, India's first female stunt rider and firefighter, and crew members of Air India were awarded by the Delhi Commission for Women on the occasion of International Women's Day.
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Man Sets Woman Ablaze On Bus In Peru, Injures Ten Others
Ten people were treated for burns after a man doused a woman with gasoline and set her alight inside a public bus in the Peruvian capital Lima, firefighters said.
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Rajasthan's Women Firefighters Show What They're Made Of
Married before her 18th birthday, Nirma Chaudhary could have ended up like thousands of other child brides in Rajasthan - forced to quit school and consigned to a life as a wife and mother.
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Three charged over 1,000 prank calls to Paris fire-fighters
Three young French women are facing possible jail time and heavy fines for making nearly 1,000 prank calls to Paris fire-fighters over more than a year, police said.
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Canada ahead of US in allowing women in combat
On May 17, 2006, in a firefight with Afghan Taliban insurgents, Canadian forces lost an artillery officer hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade. She was Capt. Nichola Goddard, the first Canadian woman to be killed in action since her country's 1989 decision to admit women soldiers into combat.
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Senior rescued after fingers were tapped in ATM machine
Australian firefighters on Thursday performed one of their most unusual rescues -- freeing an elderly woman whose fingers got stuck in a bank ATM.The fire service was called to a hospital in Sydney after security guards found the women distressed with three of her fingers jammed in the slot that dispenses cash, ABC radio reported.
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Mumbai fire brigade gets first women firefighters
The Fire Brigade in Mumbai has for the first time appointed two women who will become firefighters. The two firewomen selected for the job are Swati Satpute from Dombivali and Sheetal Salve from Dharavi who were selected from the 14 applicants who had applied for the job. "The final induction of the t...
