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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicBaoli

Topic: Baoli

Eight step wells, 2 cities, 10 years—how collaboration revived crumbling Mughal ‘baolis’

Called ‘Restoring Stepwells, Reviving Life’, an IIC exhibition, which opened on 22 July and closes today, shows how eight step wells – two in Delhi, six in Hyderabad – were painstakingly resuscitated.

How Feroze Shah, father of irrigation system in India, created the largest ‘baoli’ in Delhi

Instead of wars, Feroz Shah Tughlaq decided to spend more time and money on city planning, construction of public buildings, roads, water channels, and utilities.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.