BJP leader Arjun Munda on Sunday alleged that the Jharkhand government has diluted the core spirit of the PESA Act, 1996 in the notified PESA rules ...

Mission Trail Baptist Hospital, shown in a file photo, is one of the hospitals in the Baptist Health System. VHS of San ...

Learn how usual, customary, and reasonable fees impact your out-of-pocket costs for medical services. Discover why UCR fees vary by provider and location.

In South Africa, a customary marriage may begin with ancestral blessings, lobola payments and the union of two families – but when that union breaks down, tradition alone will not suffice. According ...

Deputy Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang has called upon village councils to safeguard and uphold the Naga customary system, stating that it remains central to the community’s identity and justice delivery.

South African actress and businesswoman Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa has won a victory in the Johannesburg High Court. It ruled that her customary marriage to music star Nkosinathi “Black Coffee” Maphumulo ...

Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar of the Gauhati High Court on Tuesday lauded Nagaland's customary village justice system for its emphasis on reconciliation and healing, contrasting it with the formal ...

It is not legally possible for both a customary marriage and a civil marriage to co-exist alongside each other. Parties are either married by customary law or by civil law, an acting judge said in a ...

The validity of customary marriages has come into sharp focus when a Mpumalanga mother succeeded in having her customary marriage to a now-deceased businessman husband declared valid, and his ...

In the Panchayat system too, a similar three-tier system exists; these are the Village Panchayat, the Intermediate Panchayat, and the District Panchayat. These provisions were added through the 73rd ...

This policy brief summarises research made in 3 African states into both the official and informal roles of customary law and attitudes towards it. Customary laws regulate the rights, liabilities and ...