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He worked at a pizza shop & played on weekends. Today, he’s key to Italy’s T20 World Cup team

Sri Lanka-born Crishan Kalugamage, who won player of the match when Italy beat Nepal Thursday, talks discipline, hard work and ambition, terms Virat Kohli his inspiration.

Pizza-maker, Uber driver, carpenter: Out of T20, but Italian squad gave Scotland a run for their haggis

Italy’s multi-national squad, which has players of Indian, Sri Lankan and Pakistani descent, fought hard but fell 73 runs short against a dominant Scotland in the T20 World Cup.

Why one of Italy’s biggest environmental scandals is causing a stir in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri

Six months after a Vicenza court sentenced former managers and executives of Miteni to a total of 141 years in prison, ripples are being felt over 8,000 kilometres away.

Biblical motifs to bikini women—Delhi exhibition brings 2,000 years of Italian mosaic art

The exhibition, Mosaico: Italian Code of a Timeless Art, at the Humayun’s Tomb museum will run until 30 August.

What is Tehreek-e-Labbaik, the radical group under spotlight after arrest of 11 Pakistanis in Spain

In the 3rd phase of a 3-year-long investigation into radical groups operating in Barcelona, the 11 were held in a joint operation by the Spanish National Police & Italian police forces.

Italy’s ban on international surrogacy shows an ultra-conservative idea of family

The use of the term 'universal crime' to describe the ban evokes the Italian criminal code for crimes that contravene 'universal values'—putting surrogacy on par with genocide.

Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad, activists say it targets LGBTQ community

Italy extends surrogacy ban already in place in Italy since 2004 to those who go to countries such as the US or Canada imposing 2-year jail term and fines of up to $1.09mn.

A little bit of Rome is now in Gurugram—Sistine Chapel to Renaissance art

Begeterre’s vastness is almost cathedral-like. And while it’s a homage to Rome, its culinary offerings are akin to Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, from India to Turkey to Mexico and Asia.

UK, Italy discuss boosting of ties, start of ‘new chapter’ in bilateral ties

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in Rome to build on an existing MoU.

Italy’s Valentina Petrillo to be first openly transgender athlete at Paralympic Games

The 50-year-old will represent Italy in women's 200 and 400-meter races in Paris this year. The sprinter transitioned in 2019.

On Camera

No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

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.