Author: Chris Anu

As student bodies across premier national universities object to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant’s remarks and refuse to have him over for their convocations, Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday (August 30, 2026) pushed for the activation of Presidential power to directly appoint ‘distinguished jurists’,including legal academicians, as judges in the top…

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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Thursday expressed concern about the rise in violence and racist hate crimes targeting migrants in South Africa, urging authorities to implement urgent measures to address this issue.

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Across sub-Saharan Africa, welfare does not begin and end with government programmes. Families, savings groups, burial societies, labour-sharing networks, women’s organisations, religious institutions and customary systems routinely help people navigate illness, unemployment, bereavement, financial stress and other shocks. However, much of this architecture remains peripheral to formal social-policy design, even as formal social protection reaches…

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