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India’s gross GST collections surge 15.4 pc

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Continuing a robust trend, India’s gross goods and services tax (GST) collections surged 15.4 per cent...

UPI transactions register 22 pc growth

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transaction volumes rose 22 per cent (year-on-year) to 23.66 billion in...

India gives $840k climate protection aid to Tanzania

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: India is giving Tanzania $840,000 in aid for a programme to provide financial protection against risk...

RBI may retain repo rates in August

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to keep policy rates unchanged in its Monetary...

IMD Forecasts Below-Normal July Rainfall Across India

July Rescued the Season. The IMD Now Says August and September Will Be Below Normal

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: India has just come through a month that repaired most of the damage a bad June...

Twenty-Three Medals, a First Gold in Judo, and Ten Boxers Who All Have to Win Today

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: India goes into the penultimate day of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games with a medal in a...

The Quarter’s Deficit Is 18.2% of the Year’s Target — and Nearly a Quarter of It Went Into Building Things

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: The Centre's books for the first quarter were published on Friday, and the headline number matters...

India Has Built 27 Million Structures to Catch Rain. The Next Decade Is About Making Them Work

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Water is the one Indian resource whose scarcity is not a forecast but an arithmetic certainty,...

763 Million Payments a Day: What UPI’s July Record Actually Measures

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: India's payments system processed more transactions last month than most countries process in a year, and...

Sixteen Films, Three Hits: What July Told Indian Cinema About Its Own Audience