Infrastructure Stories
Amaravati is betting on quantum tech. Can it build India’s next Silicon Valley?
Amaravati, the newly anointed capital city of Andhra Pradesh, is still under construction, but its Quantum Valley project is already luring deeptech startups, scientists and engineers to move in as the first settlers and work on the next frontier of technology
- Nidhi Sharma
- THE ECONOMIC TIMES
No barriers, no stops: How India’s tolling system is changing
Multi-Lane Free Flow system, set to be implemented from today, will allow vehicles to cruise through toll plazas, promising faster travel and lower congestion. TOI takes a test drive
- Dipak K Dash
- TNN
20 minutes and 6 km saved, fewer jams: How a ‘missing link’ changes Mumbai–Pune drives
A new bypass cuts travel time, allows motorists to avoid a risky stretch, and could make one of India’s most congested highways faster and safer
- Alka Dhupkar
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
UP’s longest expressway is ready. Can it bridge the state’s east-west divide?
The new 594-km corridor from Meerut to Prayagraj promises faster travel, but its real test lies in whether it can bring investment, jobs and industry into eastern UP — where development has lagged for decades
- Rajesh Sharma
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
The 1890s changed New York. The 1980s changed Singapore. Can the 2020s change Mumbai?
Mumbai is seeing its biggest infrastructure push yet with new expressways, a 16-line metro network, a second international airport, sea links and tunnels. Will it reshape how the city functions? Will it change where its people live and work? Will it improve the quality of life in India’s buzziest metropolis?
- Kailash Babar
- THE ECONOMIC TIMES
‘Best Sign That Our Trains Got Safer, Is Fewer Headlines!’
GOI’s railways minister argues that the past decade has seen clear policy, sustained funding, and modern technology transform the safety ecosystem of Indian Railways
Delhi to Dehradun in just 2.5 hrs – how a new highway will make the drive a breeze
The new six-lane access-controlled Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14
- Rajesh Sharma
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
This Haryana village was declared unlivable. Then why are people still living there?
In Khukhrana, the effects of pollution caused by a power plant and a cement factory are visible everywhere — in the air people breathe, the water they drink, and the illnesses that kill them. But decades after being promised relocation, the village still waits for a way out
- Bansri Shah
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Why Delhi-NCR really needs the swanky, new Noida International Airport
While the airport is ready and has been inaugurated, there are regulatory hurdles to clear and connectivity issues to be fixed
One tragedy after another, stop the bloodbath on India's roads
This week, in Andhra Pradesh, a bus hit a tipper truck, caught fire, and 13 passengers who were trapped inside died. Why do deaths like these quickly fade into numbers?
- Robin David
- TNN
You can’t lure the diaspora home with tax breaks ... and potholes
Why can't a fast-growing economy that offers incentives not make talented NRIs come back?
Boeing & AI, Give Us Some Plane Truths Please
Months after the horrific Ahmedabad crash, the fuel control switch issue has shown up in another AI Boeing. It’s essential that the pilot’s report be treated, this time, not with suspicion but rigorous follow-up
I took an EV on a highway trip — and discovered how unprepared we are
What started out as an exciting road trip on an EV from Noida to Lucknow was marred by difficulties in locating charging stations due to missing signage, incompatible chargers, and power outages, stretching a six-hour journey into a 12-hour ordeal
Will this marina start the revival of Mumbai’s eastern seashore?
Mumbai's port area could see a revival in its fortunes and improve water transport for the city's residents with a new project
- Bhavika Jain
- TNN
Bengaluru, Pune top congested cities list. Can they cut millions of car rides like New York?
The results of congestion pricing have been striking. About 73,000 fewer vehicles now enter this bustling zone every day — a decline that has added up to 27 million fewer trips in one year – an 11% reduction on average. That single change has reshaped how New York City moves. Indian cities need to act fast
- Rajesh SharmaDevyani Mohan
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Indore showed what contaminated water can do. Is Delhi next?
With nearly half its pipelines ageing and long-delayed replacement projects, Delhi’s water problems are no longer episodic. Rising complaints of dirty tap water echo the warning signs seen before the Indore crisis
Rest of India is proof, Indore’s water contamination crisis is not an accident
What unfolded in Indore was not a freak contamination but the result of structural neglect long flagged by scientists and courts. As Gandhinagar faces a similar outbreak, the crises point to a deeper flaw in how Indian cities build and police water systems
Inside NH-66: How a 29-year-old mapped India’s most dangerous highway
Disturbed by how road deaths became routine, Chaitanya Patil walked nearly the entire Mumbai–Goa highway to understand why accidents keep happening, and why, despite years of construction, official deadlines and repairs, so little changes on the ground
- Alka Dhupkar
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
How Worli became India’s most expensive neighbourhood
Eye-popping prices, billionaire buyers and apartments that are really mansions in the air — this tony neighbourhood in Mumbai’s south-west now accounts for nearly half of India’s ₹40-crore-plus home transactions
- Bhavika Jain
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Goa’s tinderbox clubs: Blocked exits, bamboo roofs, foam walls
Till 2020, Goa had 20 nightclubs. Now, it has over 200, with many built illegally. The Dec 6 fire at North Goa’s Birch by Romeo Lane laid bare years of regulatory lapses in a tourism-driven economy