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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: cities

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

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

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

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

Colonial infrastructure to blame for Bangalore running out of water

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

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

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.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.