A 24-year-old Afghan woman, Hanifa Yousoufi, has become the first from the country to climb the country’s highest peak. On August 10, she summited her country’s highest peak, the 24,580-foot (7,492 meters) Mt. Noshaq. Yousoufi completed this feat with the help of a Norfolk-based nonprofit, Ascend. She was part of an expedition organised by Ascend Athletics. Ascend is a […]
History is in the making in Saudi Arabia as its General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has issued licences to five women pilots. The country appears to be slowly working towards a different era of modernity and equality. Many social restrictions are easing in the deeply conservative Muslim country. Lifting the decade-long driving ban was one […]
This year, the Royal Cavalry of Oman’s pipers on horseback and its all-female marching band took part in the prestigious Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The all-female marching band and Mounted Pipes and Drums went all the way to Scotland for the programme. The combined bands travelled a distance of 5,000 miles to perform at the annual series at the Edinburgh Castle, Scotland. The annual series […]
Japan is all set to have its first woman fighter pilot. On Thursday, the military announced that a 26-year-old woman, Misa Matsushima, has qualified to become a fighter jet pilot in the country. According to the official statement of the ministry, First Lieutenant Misa Matsushima finished her training on 22nd August to fly F-15s. She will […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi actress Kelly Marie Tran has finally broken her silence about the racism, sexism and online harassment she faced which forced her to delete all her social media posts. Tran scripted history and became the first woman of colour to be cast in a lead role in the Star Wars franchise. Her character in the series was […]
Forbes is well-known for its lists and rankings and now it has come up with a well-researched list of the highest paid female athletes of 2018. India’s elite badminton player, PV Sindhu, is the seventh ‘Highest Paid Female Athlete’ for 2018 as ranked by the magazine. Sindhu is the only Indian to be featured on […]
While there has been a fall in the number of female candidates at IIM Kozhikode, the institute plans to allot 60 additional seats in the post-graduate programme (PGP) exclusively for women. With this move, IIM Kozhikode becomes the first institute among IIMs to create additional seats for women. These 60 women-only seats will be effective from […]
Taking a serious note of the rape incidents and death of women inmates at a shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, the Bihar government has cancelled the selection of 50 NGOs for running shelter homes across the state. NGOs in the state will now be run by the government itself, said an official. According to the official, […]
Actor and singer Jennifer Lopez has become the first Latin artiste to get the coveted ‘Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award’. She received the award on Monday night at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA). “It’s an insane night for me; it’s a really special thing – winning this award. [I’m] honored, it’s just crazy […]
Ronda Rousey is the new WWE Raw women’s champion. She won the championship on Sunday night after scoring a submission win over Alexa Bliss during SummerSlam at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Just four months after making her official professional wrestling debut into WWE, Ronda Rousey can call herself a WWE champion. The former UFC bantamweight […]
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