CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Bhopal railway station became India’s first railway station to have a sanitary napkin vending machine named as Happy Nari. The machine dispenses two sanitary napkins at the cost of Rs 5 only and accepts Rs 5 coins.

Detailed explanation-2: -Whisper was the first brand to show a sanitary napkin on television with Renuka Sahane, the star of the long-running TV series ‘Surabhi’ in 1993 and mention the word “periods” in advertising.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arunachalam Muruganantham was obsessed with making the perfect sanitary pad for his wife. After years of work, his invention has changed the lives of millions of women in India.

Detailed explanation-4: -Passengers can get them by inserting a Rs. 5 coin in the vending machines. The machines can vend 75 pads at a time. A trained female employee at the station, is in charge of refilling the same.

Detailed explanation-5: -Disposable menstrual pads grew from a Benjamin Franklin invention created to help stop wounded soldiers from bleeding, but appear to have been first commercially available from around 1880 with Thomas and William Southall’s pad.