New Delhi: From reusable sanitary napkins to a real-time facial recognition system, Prime Minister Narendra Modi heard about the inventions of students during his interaction through video conferencing with the finalists of the Smart India Hackathon 2020. A student who is working on a biodegradable sanitary napkin, spoke to the Prime Minister. PM Modi said […]
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Akshay thanks GST Council for tax exemption on sanitary napkins
Mumbai : National Award winning Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, whose film “Pad Man” tried to create awareness on menstrual hygiene, has thanked the GST Council for making sanitary napkins Goods and Services Tax (GST) free. Expressing his happiness, Akshay tweeted on Saturday: “One of those days when a news brings tears of joy as a […]
‘Sanitary napkins to be exempt from GST’
New Delhi : Sanitary napkins will be exempt from GST, Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said on Saturday after a meeting of the GST Council. Sanitary napkins are taxed 12 per cent tax under the one-year old GST regime, which attracted serious criticism from various quarters. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 28th […]
Awareness on sanitary napkins still low in rural areas: India’s real Pad Man
New Delhi : Some thought he was possessed, some thought he was just being a pervert when he started questioning young women about sanitary pads. But Arunachalam Muruganantham did all this in his quest to make cheap sanitary napkins for his wife, which, eventually, went on to revolutionise menstrual health for rural women around the […]