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Thursday, April 9, 2026
TopicCommonwealth

Topic: Commonwealth

Solomon Islands Celebrates 65 Years of Commonwealth Scholarships

The event featured presentations, discussions, and networking opportunities for past and present scholars, stakeholders, and program contributors.

Commonwealth selects Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey as new secretary-general

Botchwey, a supporter of reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism, takes over from Britain’s Patricia Scotland, who has been in the job since 2016.

King Charles acknowledges Commonwealth’s ‘painful’ history with slavery on summit agenda

From the 15th to the 19th century, at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly taken by European ships and merchants and sold into slavery.

47 Ghanaian students awarded scholarship to study in UK

Deputy British High Commissioner to Ghana, Keith McMahon, expressed his pleasure in hosting some of Ghana's brightest minds before they head to the UK.

India’s CPGRAMS system recognized as best practice in governance by Commonwealth Secretariat

The system has been instrumental in improving the quality of governance by providing a speedy and effective remedy to the grievances of citizens.

India’s CPGRAMS ‘a global best practice in AI-driven grievance redressal’

Commonwealth Member countries laud India's grievance redressal system as a 'state-of-the-art practice'

Commonwealth releases ‘military justice principles’, 2 Indians among 15 experts who drafted rules

'Stellenbosch Draft' draft seeks to 'reiterate' importance of 'independent & competent' legal system. Expert panel included Indian lawyers Major Navdeep Singh (retd) and Aishwarya Bhati.

Soldiers’ rights advocate Navdeep Singh now in Commonwealth Secretariat’s military justice panel

Singh, an attorney at the Punjab and Haryana High Court specialises in constitutional & service law and has served as a Major in the Territorial Army.

Prince William and Kate Middleton to make their first official visit to Pakistan this year

Prince William and Duchess Kate will travel for a week to Islamabad, Lahore, Quetta, Karachi and Peshawar, but will not be accompanied by their 3 young children.

UNESCO declared Indian national anthem as the best, tweets Babita Phogat

Before Phogat could delete the fake news tweet, it had at least 111 retweets and 192 replies.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Too early to draw lessons from US-Israel & Iran war, India monitoring like a hawk—Navy chief

Indian Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said that the ongoing conflict in West Asia illustrates that speed is no longer merely an enabler of warfare but a distinct capability.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.