4+ hour, 27+ min ago  (456+ words) VIRUDHUNAGAR: For many adolescent girls in rural schools, menstruation still arrives with fear, shame and ridicule. Whispered conversations, hidden cloths and mocking classmates continue to shape their experience of puberty long before they understand it themselves. At a time when…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (676+ words) NEW DELHI: A hormonal disorder, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), which affects one in eight women, or 170 million women globally, now has a new name, according to global organisations of scientists and physicians devoted to hormone-related conditions. Scientists said it was…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (286+ words) CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court has directed authorities to provide free and comprehensive medical care to a 16-year-old rape survivor who has decided to continue with her over 31-week-pregnancy after medical experts warned that termination at this stage involved high…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (239+ words) The New Indian Express COIMBATORE: Social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham, widely known as "Padman, has claimed that he has been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking to ANI on Sunday, Muruganantham said he initially found it hard to believe the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (685+ words) LUCKNOW: A stormy special session of the Uttar Pradesh legislature took off to the exchange of sharp political attacks over women reservation amendment bill between the treasury and the opposition benches on Thursday. While CM Yogi Adityanath, Deputy CM Brajesh…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (213+ words) BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to implement the existing menstrual leave policy "strictly and faithfully, pending formal enactment of the proposed legislation -- the Karnataka Menstrual Leave and Hygiene Bill, 2025. The verdict came amid a…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (517+ words) HYDERABAD/ADILABAD: Reacting sharply to the remarks made by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy regarding the delimitation of constituencies, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Monday alleged that the former lacks even basic understanding of the process. He said that…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (326+ words) The New Indian Express Calendar Movie Review: .What if the most dismissed biological cycle in a woman's life could tilt the balance between reason and ruin? This question carries weight, but Calendar holds it back, almost unsure how to bring…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (379+ words) Seated before the glow of her computer screen, author and journalist Sucheta Dasgupta begins not with words, plots, or sequence, but with an imaginary setting in her head. In that setting, a character steps in, makes a decision, and that…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (397+ words) TIRUCHY: Tiruchy district has reduced its Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to 9. 5 per 1, 000 live births in 2025-26 (up to March 2026) the lowest in four years with 293 infant deaths out of 30, 930 live births, the official annual data said. The IMR has steadily declined…...