CURRENT AFFAIRS: DAYS
World Menstrual Hygiene Day
- World Menstrual Hygiene Day is observed on May 28. It’s mission is to break the silence, raise awareness and change negative social norms surrounding MHM around the world.
- World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2020 themeis ‘Periods in Pandemic’.
- The idea behind choosing thistheme is to highlight how the challenges faced by women during menstruation have worsened due to the ongoing pandemic.
International Everest Day
- International Everest Day is observed on May 29.
- This day was declared in the memory of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary belonging to Nepal and New Zealand respectively the first summit of Mt Everest on May 29, 1953. And on May 29, 1965, in a stroke of serendipity, (now retd) Major Hari Pal Singh Ahluwalia, became the first Indian to summit Mt Everest.
