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Monday, May 25, 2026
TopicDelhi Mumbai expressway

Topic: Delhi Mumbai expressway

Life on India’s shiny new expressways—sleeping truck drivers, jugaad, and secret dhabas

ThePrint was on board Gaffar’s truck as he told the story of a transforming highway landscape while driving on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway through a sandstorm.

Chambal Ravines are now safe because of new roads. But Indians must learn how to drive

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana roads have opened up economic opportunities but they will be pointless if average Indian user doesn’t know how to use them.

Once a Surat diamond heiress, this 9-yr-old is now a Jain nun living in a ‘bubble-like sansaar’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is impressive but Indians’ driving lanes apart

Seeing me drive on this 10-lane road in a powerful German-built convertible with the roof down, you could have said I was in the American north-east.

Delhi to Jaipur in 4 hours — PM to inaugurate 1st stretch of Delhi-Mumbai expressway on 12 Feb

Touted as country's longest, the entire 1,386 km expressway is likely to be operational by 2024. It will be the first in Asia & second in world to have overpasses for wildlife.

1,380 km long, 8 lanes, tunneling through sanctuary: All about Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is being built at an estimated cost of Rs 98,000 crore and is likely to be completed by March 2023.

Off The Cuff with Nitin Gadkari

In conversation with Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said India’s road infrastructure will be comparable to the...

On Camera

FIFA World Cup is Neymar’s final chance at glory. Brazil and football both need him

Neymar may not be going to the World Cup as the invincible prince of football like he once was, but as something perhaps even more meaningful, a flawed, broken footballer getting one final chance at glory.

India on an FTA signing spree, but limited utilisation & widening trade deficits temper gains

India has signed several free trade agreements in the last 5 yrs, but they are yet to be utilised to the extent expected.

Are drones from Turkey fighting each other in Sudan’s proxy civil war?

The alleged downing of a drone by Sudan’s own fleet exposes chaotic logic of Africa’s proxy conflicts, where Turkish weapons are now being turned against themselves.

2026 is like 1973 Indira-era oil shock plus youth anger. Modi has space, but not immunity

An oil shock, monsoon fears, rampant unemployment, and the seeming inevitability of inflation are common to both eras. Indira Gandhi’s self-destructive responses are instructive today.