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Pinar Toprak becomes first woman composer to bag Marvel film
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], June 15 (ANI): American-Turkish composer Pinar Toprak has bagged herself a Marvel Studios film, which has earned her the title of 'First woman composer to score a Marvel film'.
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No job is tough, says Manju Devi, first woman porter of North-West Railway
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], May 30 (ANI): Defying all odds, Manju Devi became the first woman in the entire North Western Railways to take up the job of a porter (coolie), a profession which is considered as a male bastion.
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Trump congratulates first female CIA director Gina Haspel
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 18 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) congratulated the newly-elected director of Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel who is the first woman ever to hold this post.
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Indu Malhotra sworn in as SC judge
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 27 (ANI): Senior advocate Indu Malhotra was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on Friday, becoming the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as top court's judge from the bar.
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Avani Chaturvedi, India's first woman fighter pilot, says machine knows no
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Jamnagar (Gujarat) [India], Mar 8 (ANI): On the occasion of International Women's Day, Avani Chaturvedi, the first ever Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo, said that an aircraft knows no gender boundaries.
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Indu Malhotra, KM Joseph recommended as SC judges
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 11 (ANI): The Supreme Court collegium has recommended senior advocate Indu Malhotra's name as the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the apex court.
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Scenario of sports changing in country for good: Goalkeeper Aditi Chauhan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Jan. 08 (ANI): National women football team's goalkeeper Aditi Chauhan, who is the first woman from India to play a soccer league in the United Kingdom, exudes confidence over changing scenario of sports in the country.
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'Visiting Ujjain's Mahakal Temple was more painful than scaling Everest'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Dec 26 (ANI): Arunima Sinha, first woman amputee to scale the Mount Everest, on Tuesday said the Ujjain's Mahakal Temple authorities mocked at her disability during her visit there.
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Homai Vyarawalla remembered with Google Doodle on 104th birthday
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 9 (ANI): Search engine giant, Google, paid homage to India's first woman photojournalist, Homai Vyarawalla, on Saturday with a doodle on her 104th birth anniversary.
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Google marks India's first female lawyer's 151st birthday
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 15 (ANI): Google on Wednesday paid its tributes to Cornelia Sorabji, India's first woman lawyer, through a dedicated doodle on the occasion of her 151st birth anniversary.
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Nothing is impossible for women to achieve, says India's first woman WWE w
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Jalandhar (Punjab) [India], October 19 (ANI): Kavita Devi, who became the first Indian woman to sign with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)-- world's biggest platform for wrestlers-- asserted that nothing was impossible for women to achieve.
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First woman RAF DIG, first woman Air Marshal throw light on their journey
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): The newly-appointed defence minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, is only the second woman after late Indira Gandhi to hold the responsibility, and the first one to take full time charge.
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