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Agarkar seeks extension as selection committee chair

Centre launches RELIEF scheme to help exporters

India emerges as leading force in AI applications

Gas prices in Europe surge 30 pc after escalation of war

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MoU with US on supply-chain pipeline for semiconductors

NEW DELHI: US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, visited India last week on the invitation of Minister of Commerce and...

Wheat supply to Afghanistan via Chabahar Port

NEW DELHI: India will send its next consignment of wheat as aid to Afghanistan under the Taliban regime via Chabahar...

English, Hindi top languages Indians learn

April 21, 2025

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: According to the India report card 2022 of Duolingo — the most downloaded education app globally...

Blitz India partners book-discussion event at IIC

An impressive function was held at the Indian International Centre (IIC), in New Delhi on March 11, to hold discussion...

Navy set to be richer by 200 BrahMos cruise missiles soon

NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy is set to acquire 200 extended-range BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles in what could be the...

Portal for women research grants, fund applications

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Science and Technology has set up an exclusive portal for women researchers to apply for...

History still runs on rails here

NEW DELHI: Britishers may have left India in 1947, but they still own a 190-km long railway line in India,...

Endorsement and applause

by Deepak Dwivedi

When his Italian counterpart called Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "most loved leader around the world", it didn’t come as...

Future is hydrogen and the colour is green

The first Union Cabinet meeting of 2023 approved what is arguably one of the top three ambitious initiatives of this...

New teacher training B.Ed programme is rolled out