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Markram, Proteas’ new hero who broke the jinx & brought home glory after decades of heartbreak

Markram, Proteas’ new hero who broke the jinx & brought home glory after decades of heartbreak

ICC World Test Championship: Proteas’ triumph at Lord’s represents far more than just a cricket match

New Delhi: At Lord’s—the revered home of cricket—South Africa finally laid to rest their long-standing ICC tournament demons, clinching the World Test Championship mace...

WTC final win came on a sunny day for Rainbow Nation. It’s a new chapter for South Africa cricket

The Proteas claimed an emphatic 5-wicket win over Australia in ICC World Test Championship Final at Lord's. The win couldn't have been sweeter after being written off by critics.

Armed with paintbrush, AB de Villiers bats for sustainability through art in Mumbai

South African cricket great to take part in an initiative to promote sustainability & to launch a city-wide volunteer drive for community service activities in Mumbai.

In their prime & ‘perfectly wild’, Kuno cheetahs Prabhash & Pavak reach their new home

The two were among the first lot brought to Kuno from South Africa in February 2023 under Project Cheetah. They have been released in MP's Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary.

‘Race-baiting Trump hater’, US expels South Africa’s ambassador Ebrahim Rasool

US Secy of State Marco Rubio shared a Breitbart article quoting the envoy saying Trump leads a white supremacist movement. Rasool must leave by 21 March, state dept. spokesperson said.

Trump’s vision for America is apartheid South Africa—Musk ignites white nationalist dreams

From swathed privilege in apartheid South Africa to today’s US power corridors, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel laid the roots of Donald Trump’s radical agenda.

Echoing Trump & Musk’s stance, Marco Rubio skips South Africa G20 meet over ‘racist’ land law

Criticised by Trump, Musk and now Rubio, post-apartheid law allows expropriation of land under very narrow circumstances in a country where White minority owns lion’s share of farmland.

US Secy of State Marco Rubio says, won’t attend G20 in Johannesburg, ‘South Africa doing bad things’

Rubio cited concerns over SA's actions, including the expropriation of private property, says it is not in the US's interest to 'waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism'.

Cricket-South Africa sports minister joins calls for Afghanistan cricket boycott

By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie said he supported calls for a boycott of Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy in Pakistan, adding his voice to those

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No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.