Interview with Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
Rajiv Tikoo
Editor
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India was established in 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Act (PHRA), 1993, amended in 2006. The PHRA defines human rights as rights related to life, liberty, equality, and dignity guaranteed by the Constitution or international covenants, enforceable by Indian courts. Arun Kumar Mishra, a former Supreme Court judge, chairs the NHRC. He is a former Chief Justice of the Calcutta and Rajasthan high courts. He was also a judge in the Madhya Pradesh High Court. In this conversation with Rajiv Tikoo, Justice Mishra talks about the status of the LGBTQIA+ community, the road traversed so far, what lies ahead and much more. Edited excerpts:
It is not only children and young people, who grope in the dark for answers to their growing up questions, but also parents who struggle to cope with the double challenge of helping children find answers and also address their own difficulties in the process
This special edition plots a complete 360° view of the sanitation and scavenging landscape in India, its high points and the heights yet to be scaled.
Rahul Rawail is best known for directing hits such as Love Story (1981), Betaab (1983), Arjun (1985), Dacoit (1987), Anjaam (1994) and Arjun Pandit (1999).
The aim should be to make every day a handwashing day, and every moment of touching mouth, nose and eyes a handwashing moment. But the act is good enough if it is done correctly.
Going beyond serving as a reminder of the importance of the cause such a day symbolises, every special day is an occasion is a nudge to up the game to realise the objectives of the day through creation of awareness and pursuit of action.
With online or hybrid modes of education becoming a mainstay in India, lakhs of students today prefer online educators to traditional offline classes. Here are some of the most popular faces in the online teaching industry who are loved by teachers across streams,?courses, and disciplines.
Online educator and former IAS aspirant Awadh Ojha from Uttar Pradesh talks to Outlook about his journey to becoming one of the most popular faces in the online education industry and the challenges that the medium faces in a country like India.
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