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Sanitary Pads With A Difference: How Project Baala Is Empowering Rural Women
A recent report shows that about 88% of menstruating women in India do not have access to sanitary products during their period, and use alternatives like pieces of rag, ash, sand and husk. As a...
View Article‘Pad Man’ Will Raise Awareness On Sanitary Hygiene: Twinkle Khanna
Mumbai: Author-turned-producer Twinkle Khanna says her upcoming home production “Pad Man” is about menstrual hygiene, but they will try not to make it preachy. “Pad Man” tells the life story of Tamil...
View ArticleNational Menstrual Conclave: Working Women Urge Office Administration To Make...
New Delhi: While movements raising awareness about menstruation are catching pace, a group of working women here called for sensitisation of office spaces when it comes to issues like menstrual...
View ArticleNon-Compostable Sanitary Waste Is A Huge Threat To Health And Environment:...
SH- Sanitary Waste Is A Huge Threat To Health, Environment: Experts New Delhi: Long-lasting, comfortable, stain-free and affordable are the thoughts that come to every woman’s mind when she picks up a...
View ArticleAhead Of GST Launch, Konkona Sen Sharma Asks Why Tax Sanitary Napkins?
Mumbai: On Monday, at the trailer launch of her upcoming film Lipstick Under My Burkha, actor and filmmaker Konkona Sen Sharma questioned the government’s proposal to tax sanitary napkins at 12%...
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Women In Goa Have Started A Sanitary Revolution, Making Eco-Friendly ‘Sakhi’...
We live in a country where around over 1 billion of sanitary waste is generated every single month and all of that goes straight into our already stretched landfills. The waste management scenario is...
View ArticleSupreme Court Sets An Example On Menstrual Waste, To Install Sanitary Napkin...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) has allotted Rs 5 lakh to install 3 sanitary napkin vending machines and three incinerators for disposing used pads in its premises. A bench headed by Chief Justice...
View ArticleNational Green Tribunal Slaps Notice To Maharashtra Authorities Over Disposal...
New Delhi: With no facility or infrastructure available to discard the menstrual waste, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently issued notices to Maharashtra authorities and top sanitary product...
View ArticleMenstruation Is A Natural Process And Sanitary Pads Are A Necessity, Not A...
New Delhi: We live in a time when almost 88 per cent women in India still do not use sanitary pads. The reason being most of them cannot afford the most basic necessity for their hygiene, a sanitary...
View ArticleActor Dia Mirza Shares How She Is Replacing Plastic From Her Life
Nairobi: Actor-producer Dia Mirza on December 6 said she has replaced a large amount of plastic from her life. She’s using toothbrush that is not made of plastic but a bamboo one. And she believes in...
View ArticleIgnorance Towards Menstrual Hygiene Is Baffling, Says Actor Sonam Kapoor
Mumbai: Actor Sonam Kapoor says people’s regressive thinking and ignorance towards menstrual hygiene is baffling. The actor will next be seen in Akshay Kumar‘s “Padman”, inspired by the life of...
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Swachh Year-Ender 2017: Menstrual Hygiene, A Cause That Found Many Voices Of...
New Delhi: From many states investing in ‘She Smart’ toilets, to Miss World Manushi Chhillar’s project Shakti that imparts education and distributes low-cost sanitary napkins in remote areas, to 12 per...
View ArticleFree Sanitary Pads For Women In Rural Rajasthan, Announces Chief Minister...
New Delhi: Rajasthan state government announced that it will launch a new scheme across the state’s rural areas to provide sanitary napkins to girls and women, free of cost. The announcement, which...
View ArticleRural Uttar Pradesh Goes The PadMan Way, To Locally Manufacture And Sell...
New Delhi: After tasting acclaim and box-office success with the release of PadMan, makers of the film should be happy to know that the film has inspired the Uttar Pradesh government to take up the...
View ArticleUnion Minister Maneka Gandhi Launches The #YesIBleed Campaign, Talks About...
A holistic, healthy and eco-friendly society where menstrual hygiene is practised by menstruating women of all ages, even at grassroots level is the vision outlined by Union Minister of Women and Child...
View ArticleTextile Minister Smriti Irani Lauds Sanitary Napkins Made Of Jute As A...
New Delhi: Natural, free of chemicals and cost-effective. These were the terms used by Union Minister of Textile Smriti Irani to promote low-cost sanitary napkins made of jute, at the inauguration of...
View ArticleKacheguda Station In Hyderabad Gets A Sanitary Napkin Dispensing Machine For...
New Delhi: For numerous Indian women, situations of menstrual emergencies and helplessness go hand-in-hand. Lack of sanitary napkin vending machines in India’s public places has resulted in numerous...
View ArticleUnion Minister Piyush Goyal Promises To Provide Sanitary Pad Manufacturing...
New Delhi: “Recently, on my way back from my hometown, I got my periods. Unfortunately, I was not carrying a sanitary napkin with me and I was in a train. I thought, I will get down at the next station...
View ArticleSchool Students Develop Cost-Friendly Bio-Degradable Sanitary Napkins, Wins...
New Delhi: Biodegradable sanitary napkins and a ‘beeswax cloth wrap’ to replace silver foil were the two winning novel utilities which won the sustainable lifestyle challenge on Tuesday in Delhi. The...
View ArticleNavi Mumbai’s Municipal Corporation Installs 40 Sanitary Napkin Dispensing...
New Delhi: The topic of menstrual hygiene is gradually breaching age-old barriers and taboos. From the release of Akshay Kumar’s PadMan, based on sanitary napkin entrepreneur Arunachalam Murugunantham...
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