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Govt allocates Rs 69,725 cr for shipbuilding industry

Blitz India Business NEW DELHI: A comprehensive Rs 69,725 crore package has been approved to strengthen domestic shipbuilding capacity, maritime...

Dharmendra Pradhan resigns as education minister

Blitz India Business NEW DELHI: Dharmendra Pradhan on July 25 tendered his resignation as the education minister amid the paper...

The Chenab river flowing through a mountain valley

India Rejects Flooding Allegations, and Points to Pakistan’s Own Data

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: India has firmly rejected Pakistani allegations that it deliberately caused flooding downstream, describing the claims as...

Twenty Million Candidates, One Question Paper: The Architecture Behind a Fair Exam

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Strip this week's events of their immediate politics and a permanent engineering problem remains, one India...

After the First Bronze, India’s Gymnasts Take the Floor in Glasgow

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: India's Commonwealth Games campaign has its first medal and, on Saturday, its first real spread of...

Skyroot Vikram-1 Makes India a Private Space Launch Power

Three Tests Cleared: India Edges Closer to Its Own Crewed Flight

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Human spaceflight is won in unglamorous places — test rigs, water tanks and load frames, long...

The Deadline That Passed Quietly: India Trades On, and Keeps Its Terms

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: A clock ran out in Washington on Friday, and India did not blink. The temporary 10%...

Eighteen Stations Shut: Delhi’s Fourth Day of Metro Restrictions, and What Reopens When

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Commuters in central Delhi are navigating a fourth consecutive day of Metro restrictions. From 7.30 am...

A Roadmap, a Courtroom and a Table: India Moves to Fix the Exam Its Youth Depend On

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Three separate processes converged on the same question this week, and the question is one of...

Trump says Iran wants deal, rules out nuclear weapon