-Outlook Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's women self-help group 'Kudumbashree' has sent 10,000 self-made sanitary napkins for women living in relief camps in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir. Volunteers of Kudumbashree units in Kannur, Kochi and Kottayam toiled hard for three days to make the napkins within the short period of time for the flood-victims. The consignment has been sent to Kashmir, Kudumbashree Executive Director K B Valsalakumari told PTI here. The low-cost but high-quality Kudumbashree napkins, which...

-PTI Srinagar: When the floods wreaked havoc in Kashmir and plunged most parts of the Valley into darkness, few doctors at a lone maternity care hospital in Srinagar, lent a ray of light to people's lives by performing birth surgeries under candlelight. Doctors at the Lal Ded Hospital, whose ground floor was submerged by flood waters from Jhelum, performed six deliveries under the candlelight as the electricity supply to the hospital was...

-Live Mint Roughly seven out of every 10 Indian workers have no paid leave, no written contract and no eligibility for social security Indian women might still be earning lower wages compared to men, but the gender gap in wages is fast decreasing. The average wage rate for women is now one-fifth lower than men's compared to a gap of 29.2% in 2004-05, shows data from the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)....

-Press Information Bureau The Ministry of women and Child Development has fast tracked the formulation of the National Mission to tackle mal-nutrition. This Mission is now the flagship programme of the Ministry and is very high on the national agenda of the government. In order to formulate the detailed contours of the Mission and to examine innovative interventions which can be put into place to tackle the problem of malnutrition, a...

-The Hindu   The figure for households without toilets is 47 per cent for Hindu households as against 31 per cent for Muslims and 16 per cent for Christians and Sikhs, according to NSS data. Extensive new evidence shows that building toilets alone will not eliminate open defecation in India as not everyone who has access to toilet, especially men, believe that it's important to use it. Not having a toilet remains the major...