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India’s Energy Transition Has Quietly Stopped Being a Policy Debate. It Is Now a Construction Schedule — and the Bottleneck Has Moved

August 4, 2026

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: There is a moment in every infrastructure transition when the argument stops being about whether and...

Google selects 20 AI Indian startups

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: US-based tech giant Google on August 3 announced the 2026 cohort of its Play Accelerator India...

Rajya Sabha passes MSME Amendment Bill

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha passed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill amid continuous sloganeering...

Railways records 9pc growth in freight loading

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Indian Railways registered a robust 9 per cent growth in freight loading during July at 141.3...

Centre proposes rules for 2-wheeler ambulances

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: In a bid to strengthen emergency healthcare delivery in hard-to-reach areas, the Ministry of Road Transport...

Four More Judges in the Supreme Court: What the Bill Passed Today Actually Does

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: A one-clause amendment to a 1956 statute is the kind of legislation that gets a paragraph...

A Dry Monsoon Is a Weather Story. What Sits Under Punjab and Haryana Is the Permanent One

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Every year the rainfall figure is reported and every year the aquifer figure is not, although...

A missile system displayed at a defence exhibition

India Sold ₹38,424 Crore of Defence Equipment Abroad Last Year. The Interesting Change Is What It Sold

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Export totals are easy to quote and easy to misunderstand. A defence export number rises for...

₹84,084 Crore Goes Offshore: Inside the Approval Everyone Reported and Few Read

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: A scheme named after the churning of the ocean is easy to write a headline about...

Three Weeks Inside the UK Trade Deal: What Actually Changed on July 15, and for Whom