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Monday, September 1, 2025
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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 Charles in India this week, visit to focus on sustainability & climate change

Prince Charles is arriving on Wednesday and will undertake varied engagements, including a bilateral meeting with President Ram Nath Kovind.

India rebuts Pakistan’s stand on Kashmir issue as ‘propaganda’ at the Commonwealth meet

Pakistani delegation raised concern over heavy presence of security forces in Kashmir at Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Uganda.

On Camera

‘India is worst’ in Trump’s America. What’s behind the U-turn

The imposition of industry-breaking tariffs on Indian goods is with a view to sending a strong message to China: ‘look what we can do if you don’t toe our line.’

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.