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105-year-old great-grandmother received a standing ovation and a master's degree from Stanford

STANFORD, California -- At age 105, Virginia Hislop has lived a full life with two children, four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She has devoted much of her life to education and has served on school and college boards in central Washington, where she lives.

Despite her success, she says something was missing.

"From time to time, I wished I had finished and gotten my master's (degree)," Hislop said. "Part of it was the fact that I've been a college director for a good number of years and I didn't have the advanced degree that some of the other ones did."

Hislop had taken the required classes at Stanford University but had not yet submitted a master's thesis when the U.S. entered World War II in 1941.

"The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor," Hislop explained.

She quickly married her college sweetheart before his Army deployment. She assisted in the war effort then focused on her family but never finished her thesis.

"Fast-forward 83 years -- we don't have a thesis requirement anymore so she's actually satisfied the requirements for Master of Arts in the Graduate School of Education," said Daniel Schwartz, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education. "So, 83 years later, we're honoring this woman who has done so much."

Sunday afternoon at the education department's commencement ceremony, fellow graduates and Hislop's family, many of whom live in the Bay Area, gave her a standing ovation as she walked onto the stage with a little support from her cane.

"So much gratitude. She's believed in all of us and cheered us on all the way through and we get to cheer her on now. It's pretty cool," said Elizabeth Jensen, Hislop's granddaughter. "I feel like this is the crowning glory of her amazing career. This is her lifetime achievement award."

Hislop received her master's academic hoop and her diploma.

Bangladesh: Woman dies in police custody, family alleges torture

A 40-year-old woman has died in police custody in Jessore, prompting her family to accuse the law enforcers of “brutally torturing” her following her arrest.

Afroza Begum, a resident of Nawapara of Abhaynagar upazila, died while being taken to Jessore General Hospital around 11:30am on Sunday.

Afroza's elder son, Munna Molla, said: "At the instigation of some locals, ASI Silon Ali, Shamsul Haque and Constable Rabeya Khanam came to our house after midnight. They arrested my mother along with the yaba tablets they had brought with them and tortured her.

“Police took Tk1.8 lakh and demanded another Tk2 lakh in bribe. They killed my mother by torturing her in police custody over that. I want justice for this incident,” he added.

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Nahida Akter first-ever Bangladeshi woman to win ICC Player of Month award

“This is a moment to cherish,"

Bangladesh’s slow left-arm spinner Nahida Akter has been announced as the ICC Cricket World Cup Women’s Player of the Month for November. She became the first-ever women’s player to win the award.

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Ila Majumdar

Was born on July 24, 1930, in Madaripur village of Faridpur district of East Bengal. Born in a family of six sisters and two brothers, Ila Majjumder's father Jatindra Kumar Majumder was a Deputy Magistrate (Bengal Civil Service) of undivided Bengal, first class in M.Sc. Her mother was a housewife. Young Ela Majumder was a bit different from the others. She started riding a bicycle at the age of 12 and how a jeep at the age of 16. In 1944, he was studying in the ninth grade in Khulna. The family migrated to Calcutta in 1945 and she lost 1 year of the school calendar year. She could not get admission to any school and had to pass matriculation, secretly; Two years ahead of the correct age. But she was always a good student in school but he got only second division marks. Overcoming initial disappointment, she was admitted to Asutosh College, Kolkata for ISC and secured first division.

In 1947, for the first time after India's independence, the government announced that all fields of study would be open to both girls and boys. Because there is no infrastructure for BE college students, she had a special interview the very next day. And she got selected for BE College as well as Calcutta Medical College. The then education minister Nikunj Behari opened the doors of the Bengal Engineering College at Maity Shivpur to women.

In campus social life, Ila was the lone student among 800+ boys. She graduated in 1951 setting an example. She became India's first woman mechanical engineer. Ella Mazumder then pursued post-graduate training at the Glasgow-based firm Bar & Stroud.

Ella is the first female engineer to work on a heavy engineering production floor. Returning to India after training, she set another example by taking a job at the Ordnance Factory in Derer Dun, where he lived alone in the staff quarters.

Six months later, in 1955, he accepted the post of a lecturer at Delhi Polytechnic. It was the only government engineering college in Delhi at this time under Delhi University. Later he was a lecturer at the Institute of Jute Technology, Kolkata. Women's Polytechnic of Calcutta was established on the initiative of some of them. And Ila was the first principal. In 1985, she was commissioned by the United Nations to open a women's polytechnic college in Dhaka city.

Ela Majumdar (Ghosh) breathed her last in December 2019 at the age of 90.

Meet Mira Murati

She is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at OpenAI, the company behind Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot ChatGPT. Indian origin Mira was born and raised in San Francisco, United States of America.

The AI chatbot ChatGPT was created by San Francisco-based OpenAI, a startup that conducts artificial intelligence research. The application was made available in November 2022. It is capable of talking about anything from history to philosophy, generating song lyrics, and making changes to computer programme code. ChatGPT has now become very popular across the globe. It is trained on a sizable collection of articles, websites, and social media postings in addition to real-time talks, mostly in English, with human contractors employed by OpenAI. It picks up on the writing's syntax and organisation and learns to reflect commonly used expressions. The chatbot's correctness isn't always reliable because its sources aren't fact-checked and it depends on user input to get better.

As per media reports, experts are now raising concerns about the dangers associated with AI software. Recently in an interview with Time magazine, she expressed her concerns over the misuse of Artificial Intelligence. "AI can be misused, or it can be used by bad actors. So, there are questions about how you govern the use of this technology globally. How do you govern the use of AI in a way that’s aligned with human values?"

Murati joined Open AI in June 2018 as Vice President, of applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Partnerships, and is currently CTO of Open AI, the California-based research and publishing company behind the development of ChatGPT.
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Saudi Arabia to send its first woman astronaut into space

A Saudi Arabian woman will become the first woman astronaut from the country to go on a space mission later this year. will join fellow Saudi astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Barnawi and Al-Qarni will fly to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as part of a mission this spring by the private space company Axiom Space, according to Saudi Press Agency and Axiom. Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut, will also be on board for her fourth flight to the ISS. Meanwhile, John Shoffner, a Tennessee businessman, will be the pilot.

Neighboring United Arab Emirates had become the first Arab country to send woman astronaut Noura Al-Matrooshi into space in 2021.

Tennis icon Sania Mirza joins Royal Challengers Bangalore as
team mentor

Sania Mirza has been roped in as a mentor of Royal Challengers Bangalore for the inaugural Women's Premier League (WPL), to be played in Mumbai from March 4 to 26. Mirza, the first Indian woman to win a major title - she finished with six across women's doubles and mixed doubles - is expected to join the squad following the conclusion of the ATP Dubai Open, which is likely to be her last professional tournament.

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Female student tortured by IU BCL leader, activists

A first-year student of Kushtia Islamic University has complained of being beaten up mercilessly by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists in a residential hall. A section of the ruling party activists led by university unit BCL vice president Sanjida Chowdhury confined the victim in a room of Deshratna Sheikh Hasina residential hall, alleged the victim. The victim alleged that the BCL activists captured a video after taking her clothes off, harassed her, and threatened to kill her if she revealed the incident to anyone. The victim alleged that BCL vice president Sanjida Chowdhury summoned her to a Gana Room at around 11:00 pm on 12 February. Five to six students then harassed her in various ways till 3:30 am.



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5 women killed every hour by family member: United Nations report

Slovenia elects first female president

Pirc Musar, 54, will be the first woman to serve as president since Slovenia became independent amid the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. A prominent lawyer, Pirc Musar had represented former U.S. first lady Melania Trump in copyright and other cases in her native Slovenia. After winning, she said, “My first task will be to open a dialogue among all Slovenians" In her life, she worked for democracy, and human rights.

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Despite the high yield of boro paddy, adequate stock in the government warehouses, and low prices at the international markets, the rice price is very high in the local market. The country’s rice prices are the highest among five countries -- Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. According to the latest report of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the daily food crops report of the health ministry, rice price has decreased in those countries. But, the Price of rice, flour, and maize reached a record high in Bangladesh, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The prices of almost all essential commodities have gone up, making it difficult for the common people to meet their daily needs.

The soaring prices of essentials like rice, pulse, onion, and vegetable, are forcing many to rush to OMS (Open Market Sale) trucks of Trading Corporation Bangladesh to buy their commodities at lower prices. And people from bank employees to daily workers stand in the queue to buy goods from this TCB truck. Because they are not able to buy anything in the local market.

Unfortunately, people have to stand for hours for little rice and pulses. And on November 14, 2022, A woman died while waiting to buy rice from the open market. She died of cardiac arrest amid a huge crowd. Witnesses said a few people stood in line in front of the dealer shop after a while, the crowd of people gradually increased. At one point, fearing that the rice would run out, they started hurrying. Shikha Malakar fell to the ground due to the crow.

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Women in public transport in Bangladesh

87% of Bangladeshi women are harassed at least once on public transport. The survey is in joint collaboration with UNDP, NHRC, and CRI. They conducted the survey in joint collaboration. They reached out to 5,187 women in the districts through various mediums such as social media, text messages, email, etc. When questioned why public places are unsafe, 48 percent of respondents said a lack of respect towards women is the sole reason behind harassment, 19 percent said overcrowded public transport is to blame and 10 percent believe that the absence of appropriate laws is a potential reason.

The findings also revealed that 36 percent of women face sexual harassment regularly on public transport including buses, launches, trains, and terminals. As such more than half (57 percent) of the respondents consider public transport as the most UNSAFE.

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First Bangladeshi to win Global Undergrad Awards

Zareen Tasneem Sharif, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has become the "Global Winner 2022" of Global Undergraduate Awards in the category of "Architecture and Design" , for her undergraduate thesis titled "Waste in the City: Agglomerating Local Economy of Matuail Landfill". She is the first Bangladeshi to have achieved this accolade, which is often referred to as the "Junior Nobel Prize".

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Delhi recorded 6 r**e cases every day in 2022: Police data

At least six r**e cases and seven cases of molestation have been registered every day in the national capital so far this year as crimes against women see an upward tick, a date from Delhi Police revealed.

Source: The Indian Express

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Fatima Payman becomes the first hijab-wearing senator in the Australian parliament

Besides becoming the first Hijabi in the Australian Parliament, Fatima at 27 is the youngest member of the current parliament. Fatima is also the first Afghan-Australian to be voted in, and the third youngest Senator in Australian history. Fatima is an Australian Muslim with cultural roots in Afghanistan. The eldest daughter of four children, Fatima was raised in the Northern suburbs of Perth

A member of the Labor Party, Fatima was declared elected to the Senate for Western Australia (WA) in the Australian Federal Elections the result of which was announced on June 20, 2022.

Congratulations Senator Fatima Payman

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Liz Truss Becomes UK’s 3rd Female Prime Minister

UK’s 56th prime minister LizTruss, 46, was born in Oxford, England to left-wing parents. Her father was a university professor and her mother a nurse and teacher. She studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford -- the degree of choice for Britain's political elite.

She was president of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, the left-liberal party's student branch, and joined the Conservative Party after graduation. Before politics, she worked for oil and gas company Shell and telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Seychelles O.P..

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has won the Tory leadership race, the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee announced on Monday, September 5, 2022, Truss, received votes from 81,326 of the party members, whereas her rival contender Rishi Sunak received 60,399 votes.

Truss will replace Boris Johnson as the country’s new prime minister and she is to become the third female prime minister of the UK after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.

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Nora Fatehi's visit to Dhaka postponed due to the dollar crisis

Canada-born actress and dancer Nora Fatehi’s visit to Bangladesh in December to perform in a program has been deferred, said the organizers. Due to the dollar crisis, the Ministry of Culture has withheld permission to bring the artist. She was scheduled to perform in an awards ceremony titled IGA International Glory Awards 2022 in Dhaka, presented by Mirror Group.

She made her debut in Bollywood with Roar: Tigers of the Sundarbans in 2014. She has acted in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil language films. She received a huge response by doing item numbers in Telegu films, namely Temper, Baahubali: The Beginning, and Kick 2, and has also starred in two Malayalam films, namely Double Barrel, and Kayamkulam Kochunni.
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Pizza Hut opens its first all-women operated store in Bangladesh

In 1958, two brothers borrowed $600 from their mom to open a pizza place in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. Now it has 18,381 restaurants worldwide, making it the world's largest pizza chain by a number of locations. In Bangladesh, Transcom Foods Limited (TFL) started its journey in 2003 as a franchisee of Pizza Hut, the first International Chain Restaurant in Bangladesh and it has 20 branches.

On September 02, 2022, it opens its first Bangladesh branch to be run by women only. The initiative was taken to further empower the women's workforce. It's located at Level 5 food court at Jamuna Future Park, Bashundhara, Dhaka.

According to the statement of CEO Amit Thapa, at the opening ceremony, "Last 2 years has been a challenging year for Pizza Hut due to the pandemic. This year with opening our 20th store at Gulshan 2, we are on a steady growth trajectory and plan to enter several new areas by the end of 2022. Today, we are proud to step into a new chapter and create history by opening our first all-women store in Bangladesh that puts women at the front and center of the action. The store will have all women staff, who will handle all aspects of the restaurant, right from customer service, managing the store, and day-to-day administration to food preparation. We are truly humbled and grateful for the unwavering love and trust of our customers and thank them for this momentous achievement. Pizza Hut is a continuously growing brand, and as we plan to open numerous stores in the coming days, we look forward to continuing this initiative of having a greater number of stores be all-women operated. My best wishes to the team and kudos for the example they are setting by breaking boundaries and inspiring other women."

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Google employee resigns, citing retaliation and hostility for pro-Palestinian activism

The employee, Ariel Koren, a marketing manager for Google’s educational products arm who has worked for the company for seven years, spent more than a year organizing against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion agreement for Google and Amazon to supply Israel and its military with artificial intelligence tools and other computing services. Ms. Koren, 28, helped circulate petitions and lobby executives, and she talked to news organizations, all in an effort to get Google to reconsider the deal.

Then, in November, she said, came a surprising ultimatum from Google: Agree to move to São Paulo, Brazil, within 17 business days or lose your job. Ms. Koren marketed educational products to Latin America and was based in Mexico City before moving to San Francisco during the pandemic. But, she said, there was not a clear business justification for the mandated move or its urgency, and a supervisor in Brazil told her that employees in São Paulo were working from home because of the pandemic.

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Gopika sticked, the 24-year-old ST woman from the Kavunkudi ST colony in Alakkode has made history by becoming the first ST woman to fly as an air hostess in the state.

Gopika approached abandoning all hope when she inquired about the course. “It’s too expensive. My family will not be able to manage the expenses,” he said. That’s when she came to know about a government scheme for the education of ST girls. He applied for and accepted an offer to pursue a diploma in IATA customer service care at Dream Sky Aviation Training Academy in Wayanad. He was studying MSc Chemistry at SN College, Kannur, at that time. "I did not know that such a scheme existed. The state government paid my course fee of Rs 1 lakh. I did not have to pay anything,” she said. She credited the government and the faculty of the academy for her success

Ukhengching Marma first from an ethnic group in Bangladesh enrolled in MIT.

Ukhengching Marma has reportedly become the first person from an ethnic group in Bangladesh to have enrolled in a master's program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, US. She the eighth ceremonial indigenous queen of the Mong Circle, got her bachelor’s degree in public health from Asian University For Women

She is one of the 250 students from 60 countries in the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (2016-2017) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the US Department of State. She is seen with MIT President Leo Rafael Reif in the photo attached.

"Enforced disappearances claim many victims. This is true not only for the disappeared person but also for their family, loved ones, and all those who have suffered from their disappearance. This practice must stop and I urge all States to ratify the Convention."
- Michelle Bachelet

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"Only when women are financially independent, they will gain confidence and willpower to bridge the gender gap. If a woman thinks she can, she can not only rewrite her fate but also the lives of others."

-Jayaram Jayalalithaa
(24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016)



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