Indian Youth Congress file complaints in multiple states for targeting Rahul Gandhi in sanitary pad caseIndian Youth Congress initiates legal action against a digital campaign. The campaign allegedly defames Rahul Gandhi and insults women. FIR...
08 Jul, 2025, 09.39 AM IST
What NFHS-5 reveals about menstrual health and hygiene practicesWomen belonging to India’s minority communities follow and observe better menstrual health and hygiene compared to their counterparts in th...
06 Mar, 2024, 03.01 PM IST
Kerala govt set to roll out historic menstrual-cup campaignFor the first time in the country, the Left government in Kerala is getting ready to address the issue of the accumulation of enormous quan...
22 Feb, 2023, 09.59 AM IST
Riya Kumari will be supplied with sanitary pads for the entire year by an Indian sanitary pad manufacturerThe incident occurred on Thursday in Patna, where an IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bhamra publicly made fun of a schoolgirl named Riya, 20, for r...
30 Sep, 2022, 07.24 PM IST
Menstrual Hygiene Day: Here's how firms can make workspaces period-friendly for women employeesOn menstrual hygiene day, here's how companies can make workspaces more period-friendly.
28 May, 2022, 02.40 PM IST
More young women than ever before are using menstrual hygiene products in IndiaA major factor behind the upward shift, says Dr Rizvi, was giving states ownership of the menstrual health programme. “In 2014-15, we decen...
07 Dec, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
Govt not cutting GST on PPEs, masks, to save local cos from cheap importsThe government is holding back on any GST rate reduction for items like PPE, ventilators, test kits and sanitisers, as this could end up en...
21 Apr, 2020, 08.39 AM IST
HC stays penalty notice on Johnson and Johnson for 'profiteering' on sale of sanitary napkinsThe company has challenged NAPA's November 21, 2019 order that it did not pass on the commensurate benefit of reduction in the rate of tax ...
18 Feb, 2020, 05.36 PM IST
Government may ask sanitary pad companies to give cost detailsThis follows concerns that there may not be any substantial reduction in prices of sanitary napkins as ‘nil’ tax means that the industry wi...
24 Jul, 2018, 10.11 AM IST
GST rate on sanitary napkins: At nil rate, do prices go up or down?While reduction in tax rate for sanitary napkins should lead to lower prices, the math may not be that simple.
23 Jul, 2018, 03.21 PM IST
GST rate cut: Taxman to keep a close eye on companiesAuthorities will not just look at price cuts being passed on, but also on products across the board offered by acompany, said an official.
23 Jul, 2018, 08.33 AM IST
GST rate cuts: Discretionary spending likely to gather steamDiscretionary spending on electronics has been down since demonetisation in November 2016.
23 Jul, 2018, 07.15 AM IST
NGO plays 'Padman' to empower women in Sabarmati jailPilot project set up to make sanitary pads to keep women inmates occupied and supplied with female hygiene product
11 May, 2018, 11.23 PM IST
Gujarat polls: 'Congress will provide free sanitary pads to girl students'Dec said not reducing the GST on sanitary napkins is "contradictory" to the "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" campaign of the Centre government.
06 Dec, 2017, 06.06 PM IST
Why the debate on menstrual health in India needs to go beyond pad taxIndia has one of the lowest levels of penetration of sanitary pad usage in the world. At 20%, India lags behind Thailand, Indonesia and Chi...
16 Jul, 2017, 01.45 PM IST
Five things women must do for healthy livingGynaecologists tell us five things we need to pay attention to, before things start going really wrong.
18 Dec, 2015, 03.16 PM IST
JNU notifies new sexual harassment policy, adds provision for false complaintsInstallation of sanitary pad dispensers, identification of third gender in the university admission forms are among the many key changes br...
06 Dec, 2015, 12.25 PM IST