Three Class XII girls have started an online campaign to fight menstrual inequality and eradicate “period poverty” by giving sanitary pads to women who can’t afford them during the p...

Make-up professional Rebecca Rajpal, based in Calcutta and London, on safety practices when meeting a client:   Dos Use disposable masks, gowns and gloves when doing a client’s make-up...

The soap is now the centrepiece of our lives. It kills the enemy: the coronavirus. Soap dissolves the coronavirus’s fat membrane, the lipid bilayer that is the weakest link of the virus, and renders...

The government of Jharkhand announced a month-long digital awareness campaign on Thursday on the occasion of Menstrual Hygiene Day, to break the silence around menstrual hygiene and to promote better ...

Street food vendors will have to attend online training sessions on following new hygiene norms in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic once the lockdown lifts and they resume business.In a meeting organ...

Aide et Action, an NGO, with support from Small Industries Development Bank of India, distributed Swavalamban Suraksha Kawach to livelihood entrepreneurs as part of the Assam Covid-19 Response for Dai...

A large number of Calcuttans who get their daily water after standing in queues in front of community taps should be made aware about the possible dangers around these public sources of water if they...

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In the midst of a pandemic of unprecedented proportions, the absence of basic measures required to combat the disease can only worsen the situation. There is thus great cause for worry for policymaker...

People who stay home during the lockdown as well as those compelled to venture out to render essential services need to take standard precautions to avoid picking up the virus, community medicine spec...