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How Kaziranga’s upcoming Rs 6,950 cr elevated highway will help rhinos, elephants, tigers

A four-lane highway and elevated wildlife corridor through Kaziranga National Park is being built both to improve connectivity and protect biodiversity.

14 yrs in making, 4-lane Mumbai-Goa highway re-emerges as political flashpoint before Maharashtra polls

Delayed by 8 yrs due to issues with land, clearances & contractors, the Mumbai-Goa highway expansion project has exposed cracks in the ruling Mahayuti ahead of the Ganpati festival.

NHAI asks Supreme Court to allow felling of over 800 trees in Taj Trapezium Zone for Agra-Gwalior highway

Court submission by highways authority says alternative routes not feasible, and the proposed highway will help save travel time, fuel and transportation costs.

10 groups of secretaries work on govt roadmap. Bureaucracy overhaul, simultaneous polls among goals

Unlike in 2014 & 2019, when NDA government constituted SGOS after coming to power, this time task for 10 SGOS was set months ahead of end of Modi's second term.

Modi govt wants to push ahead with Char Dham bypass. Why SC-appointed panel’s concerned

Highways ministry approached panel twice this year seeking approval. It refused permission both times, and has told govt that consent of Uttarkhand forest dept is crucial.

From Socha Na Tha to Love Aaj Kal: The fall of Imtiaz Ali that no one noticed

Imtiaz Ali is Bollywood's bard of young, modern love. But his films are going through a midlife crisis now.

From Ikk Kudi to Ek Do Teen — the best & worst of Bollywood music this decade

The decade saw a sea change in the kind of music Bollywood produced, courtesy a more discerning audience.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.