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"It's high time that we normalize and acknowledge menstruation": Health ex
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Menstrual Hygiene Day which is celebrated every year on May 28 highlights the importance of good menstrual hygiene management (MHM) at a global level. Ahead of the day, some health experts shared their views to create awareness among people.
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Towards a more inclusive world: NEWJ announces new menstrual policy for em
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 8 (ANI/ATK): NEWJ (New Emerging World of Journalism), one of India's leading media-tech startups, has announced a new Menstrual Policy for its employees. The policy, effective from April 2023, offers employees a work-from-home allowance of 12 days per year t
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'Padwomen' of Kashmir break taboos, manufacture sanitary napkins
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Breaking the age-old taboo and stigma associated with menstruation in rural pockets, a women's Self Help Group is manufacturing and distributing sanitary napkins under a NABARD-aided project in Narupora village of Kokernag in south Kashmir.
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Menstruation leave for all women at VSF
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI/PRNewswire): 'Menstruation cramps' better known as 'period cramps' is still not a very comfortable terminology used or acknowledged by young grown-ups in society. In fact, it is the Gen-Z and their unabashed way of talking about everything and anything that fu
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DPIFF's Cause Partner Eka Foundation x Barista spread awareness on Women's
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): On the 5th of February, 2023, the team of Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards joined Cause Partners Eka Foundation and Barista for an exclusive CSR. DPIFF is an organisation that believes in the importance of busting th
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Periods get a break: Labour India Public School announces menstrual holida
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 26 (ANI/PNN): On the occasion of National Girl Child Day Celebrations Labour India Public School, Kottayam, Kerala has announced a menstrual holiday for its Students taking into consideration the mental and physical difficulties faced by female students during mens
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Female students in all Kerala universities to get menstruation and materni
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Kerala government has issued an order granting menstrual and maternity leave for female students in all universities in the state under the higher education department.
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Kerala government planning to grant menstrual leaves in state varsities: E
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Considering the mental and physical difficulties faced by female students during menstruation, the Kerala government is planning to implement the decision taken by CUSAT to all state universities, Kerala Higher Education Minister Dr R Bindu said in a press release today.
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Kerala: Cochin University of Science and Technology announces "menstruatio
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
With menstrual leave giving 2 per cent condonation of shortage of attendance, the mandatory attendance would be brought down to 73 per cent.
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Plea in SC seeks to provide free sanitary pads to girls studying in Classe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The petitioner said that serious difficulty are faced by adolescent females between the ages of 11 to 18 years coming from poor backgrounds.
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Study finds pandemic-related stress associated with changes in menstrual c
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
We know that the pandemic has been a very stressful time for many people, and we also know that stress can appear in women's bodies as alterations in menstruation function. Researchers found the link between them in a recent study.
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J&K: Class 12 girl creates awareness about menstrual hygiene, mental h
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Jammu and Kashmir [India], October 22 (ANI): Seher Mir, a 17-year-old Class 12 girl from Pampore in Pulwama, creates awareness about two taboo subjects, mental health and menstruation. As a part of her campaign, she carries out awareness drives in governemnt schools and among women in rural
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