The idea of a period emoji was conceived by the UK based non-profit Plan Action, who ran a survey in 2017 in UK to find that shame and stigma still hinder conversations on menstruation
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Sonia Bhaskar
People on social media did not hold back in expressing their views on the irony of schools being shut due to air pollution in Delhi and surrounding areas on Children’s Day
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Gurpurab di lakh-lakh vadaiyaan! On the auspicious occasion of 550 birth anniversary of Guru Nank Dev, we appreciate the tree-plantation efforts that Sikhs have undertaken globally at a massive scale to fight the rising air pollution and contribute to a healthy and sustainable future
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Even though Goa saw a decline in infant mortality and improvement in malnutrition related indicators, the state still needs to work towards managing diarrhoea and anaemia cases
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Even though Bihar has seen improvement in most health indicators, it remains one of the worst performing states as per Niti Aayog’s health index report; here’s a quick look at the state’s performance under different health parameters
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A report by Mumbai based NGO Praja ‘The State of Health in Delhi’ highlights air and water pollution are posing serious health issues in the national capital region
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One of the healthiest state of the country, Tamil Nadu saw a decline in its performance as per the government’s think-tank Niti Ayog’s health index report, slipping from third rank to ninth rank, here are some quick status of a some health parameters of the state
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Various reports published over the last one month – Global Hunger Index, UNICEF’S State Of the World’s Children – among others, have highlighted the crisis of Malnutrition in India
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Winner of the prestigious Sight and Life Nutrition Leadership Award 2019, Basanta Kumar Kar says that improving the status of nutrition among people can empower them and will have a positive impact on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country
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Ratul Narain from Bempu Health’s innovation is a tiny bracelet for newborns that monitors their body temperature constantly and helps prevent Hypothermia
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A report by NGO Praja ‘State of Health Of Children In Anganwadis and Municipal Schools’ in Mumbai highlighted few disturbing trends about malnutrition and undernutrition in the city
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To curb the use of plastic, more than one lakh citizens of Dehradun made a 50-kilometre long human chain to spread awareness against single-use plastic and to encourage people to give up the use of polythene bags from their daily lives
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According to UNICEF, immunisation is one of the most important preventive measures against infectious diseases which makes it a significant public health tool that helped India eradicate smallpox in 1970s and polio in 2014
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To celebrate Chhath and prevent pollution of river Mahananda, local people and municipal body of Siliguri district of West Bengal built a number of artificial ponds for the rituals
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