South Africa’s captain Temba Bavuma holds the winner’s trophy and celebrates with teammates (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) As the cameras panned to the Lord’s balcony, the entire South African team was celebrating, barring one man, Temba Bavuma. The Black captain of the South African Test team — a team once regarded as a prized possession of…
NEW DELHI: India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty in the decade spanning from 2011-12 to 2022-23, according to the World Bank‘s latest “Poverty & Equity Brief.”The report reveals that extreme poverty, defined as living on less than USD 2.15 per day, fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23….
NEW DELHI: Over the past decade, India has significantly reduced poverty with extreme poverty declining from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above the poverty line, a World Bank report said on Friday.Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4% to 2.8% and urban from 10.7% to 1.1%, narrowing the rural-urban gap…
RCB pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar admitted that he forgot about the saliva ban being lifted in the IPL this season. The saliva ban came into place during the pandemic time and it was lifted ahead of the new season of the IPL. The use of saliva has often helped the bowl to reverse in the final…
GRAP Stage- II revoked in Delhi NEW DELHI: The central government’s committee monitoring Delhi-NCR’s air quality has lifted Stage 2 restrictions under GRAP as pollution levels decreased due to suitable weather conditions. At 4 pm, Delhi’s 24-hour average air quality index was recorded at 186, well under the 300-mark that activates Stage 2 measures.In a…
KOLKATA: Yellow taxis are here to stay in Kolkata, but the future may not be Ambassador. State govt has allowed all light commercial vehicles with taxi permits to be painted yellow, in a move aimed at preserving the cultural identity of an iconic mode of city transport. A ‘light commercial vehicle’, as per road rules,…
Starting on Saturday night, TikTok, the short-form video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, was unavailable in the United States as a result of a new law that banned the company’s apps in the country. The law, which calls on ByteDance to sell TikTok to non-Chinese owners or face a ban, was upheld by…
NEW DELHI: The Centre’s panel on Delhi-NCR’s air quality on Thursday revoked curbs under stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) amid dip in pollution levels, according to an official order. The curbs were imposed Wednesday as calm winds, low temperatures and foggy conditions allowed accumulation of pollutants in the region, with the…
Wicketkeeper-batter Niroshan Dickwella is eligible to return to cricket. His three-year suspension for an alleged doping violation has been lifted after a successful appeal. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the news on Thursday.Dickwella’s suspension stemmed from a failed doping test. The test was administered by Sri Lanka’s anti-doping agency during the Lanka Premier League…
Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper-batter Niroshan Dickwella, who was handed a three-year suspension in August 2024 for alleged anti-doping violations, has been cleared to play cricket across all formats. The 31-year-old faced a ban imposed by the Sri Lanka Anti-Doping Agency (SLADA) after testing positive for a prohibited substance during a random test. However, Dickwella appealed the…