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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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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

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Johan Jose -
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Economy

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

Tejas Bhatotia -
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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