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‘Ge-M rewrites rules of public procurement’

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on August 10 said that from a gross merchandise value...

US increases $4,000 H-1B extension fee

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: The US Department of Homeland Security has expanded a $4,000 fee on H-1B petitions and a...

Domestic equity investments cross Rs 5 lakh cr mark

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) have crossed the Rs 5 lakh crore mark in net equity investments...

PM Modi praises Lovlina for objecting to distorted India map

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 10 praised silver medalist boxer Lovlina Borgohain for raising an...

India’s Real Rain Problem Is Storage

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI:Every monsoon season produces the same anxious arithmetic and the same conclusion: too little, or too much,...

Seventeen Silvers, and the Conversion Gap

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI:India came home from Glasgow with 39 medals and fourth place. The line in the tally that...

The Incumbents Won the Electric Scooter

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI:India registered 2,04,362 electric two-wheelers in July, crossing two lakh in a month for the first time....

Racks inside a high-performance computing facility

250 Petaflops on an 800-Kilowatt Budget

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI:Param Pragya was switched on at IIT Delhi's Sonipat campus on August 8. The specification everyone has...

Customs and cargo handling at an Indian port

A Hundred Billion Dollars, and a Cashew

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI:India is now Africa's fourth-largest trading partner, with two-way trade near $100 billion. The headline is the...

300 Gigawatts, and the Gap Nobody Counts