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Mahatma in South Africa top 10 list

Mahatma Gandhi has been chosen as one of the 'top ten South Africans' along with former President Nelson Mandela, by the country's national broadcaster. In rankings released by the South African......

Gupta family apologises for wedding jet controversy

A wealthy Indian family in Johannesburg has apologised to the Indian and South African governments as well as to the public for triggering a huge scandal in their effort to host a "memorable"......

Majority of Islam rejects extremists, says Obama

US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday,thatthere was a tendency among radicals to portray as "anti-Islam" any effort towards democratisation, but insisted that vast majority of the followers......

Nelson Mandela's real hero was not Gandhi, but Nehru

Compromise, constitutionality, pragmatism and self-respect. These were Mandela’s leadership virtues. For countries such as India and South Africa, these are the qualities leaders must have,......

Mugabe, wife 'in custody'; not a coup, says Zimbabwean army

IMAGE: Military vehicles and soldiers patrol the streets in Harare on Wednesday.Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters The Zimbabwe Army on Wednesday sought to reassure the country that it......

UTV bags $3-mn animation contracts

UTV Software Communications Ltd has bagged three animation contracts from overseas with total value exceeding over $3 million.The company is also planning to triple its workforce to 150 personnel......

TCS eyes $200 mn from S Africa

Tata Consultancy Serviceshas estimated to earn revenues worth $200 million by 2010 from its South African operations against $28 million in 2005-06. TCS, one of the first Indian software companies......

'I wanted Ash as Mumtaz Mahal'

Jodhpur's Mehrangarh Fort, home to the Rajput rulers of the kingdom of Marwar, is bustling.The 15th century fort is leased out to filmmaker Akbar Khan for his Taj Mahal -- An Eternal Love Story, an......

I was forever lonely: Ntini recalls his time in SA team

IMAGE: Makhaya Ntini who claimed 390 Test and 266 ODI wickets and played alongside stalwarts such as Shaun Pollock, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Lance Klusener. Photograph: Getty Images ......

ICC to look at umpire review system

The International Cricket Council (ICC) will carry out an enquiry into the umpire referral system in the wake of a series of controversial incidents in the South Africa v England test series. "We......

South Africa tour to West Indies on hold indefinitely

'We are struggling to find the time with the Indian Premier League, when our players are likely to be needed from the beginning of September.' IMAGE: South Africa's director of cricket Graeme......

BBC apologises for Boycott's four-letter rant

Cricketer-turned-commentator Geoffrey Boycott kicked up a storm with an on-air four-letter rant during the third England-South Africa ODI, prompting the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to......

Police confirm Peter Roebuck committed suicide

Peter Roebuck, one of the most respected cricket commentators, who also wrote for Indian newspapers, committed suicide at his hotel in Cape Town where he was covering Australia's Test series......

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