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Topic: cities

India’s urbanisation isn’t just happening in cities. Modi govt must tap these new areas

Mukta Naik -
Census towns and other rurban areas bridge the gap between India’s large cities and rural areas, and supply goods and services to the hinterland.

India must shun Nehruvian metropolis bias & turn to small cities for urban economic growth

Mukta Naik -
India’s urban policy attributes the messiness to migrants, slums and poverty, and its preferred antidote is a Chandigarh-like order.

How Nehru and Yogi Adityanath differed on naming cities — from Chandigarh to Prayagraj

Hilal Ahmed -
The story of renaming begins with the namkaran of India itself after Independence. 

Colonial infrastructure to blame for Bangalore running out of water

Venesa Castán Broto -
India’s Silicon Valley is facing severe water crisis as piped water infrastructure, the old tanks and wells have already started exhausting.

In the future, cities will lead, countries will follow

Teemu Alexander Puutio -
The capacity of cities to create unprecedented levels of economic activity and innovation will all but ensure that they will take the lead in the century ahead.

Big cities, capital drain

Shekhar Gupta -
Our biggest cities have continued to rot away in the last decade, but why should the future of India's urbanisation policies remain bleak too.
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Opinion

Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Amana Begam -
Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

Vijay is winning nickname war in Tamil Nadu. He’s attacking Brand Stalin with ‘uncle’ taunt

I will keep attacking India even though my missiles reach nowhere: Pakistani General X

Economy

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Defence

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Javaria Rana -
Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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