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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicIndian infrastructure

Topic: Indian infrastructure

NHAI’s infrastructure investment trust eyes $656 million amid mixed listing market

Raajmarg Infra InvIT has fixed its IPO price band at Rs 99-100 per unit and will open anchor bids on 10 March. It will start with five toll roads across four states spanning 260 km.

India seeks to revive private investment in highway construction

Govt is preparing new rules that promise revenue protection & invite global bids for projects, decade after investors retreated over concerns over revenue risks & bureaucratic delays.

Does govt spending bring the same economic benefits it once did? Data says no

Fiscal policy must acknowledge its limitations. Govt spending can't manufacture confidence.

5 biggest infrastructure fails of 2025—shoddy roads, 90-degree turns, falling bridges

A flyover sliced through the balcony of a Nagpur resident. A railway overbridge in Bhopal had nearly 90-degree turns. And a bridge in Pune collapsed under the weight of tourists.

Gujarat to Bihar to Pune, India’s bridges are collapsing. Cutting corners on safety

Twelve people died in the Gambhira bridge collapse on Thursday. But incidents like this have been happening for years, pointing to a larger problem plaguing our infrastructure projects.

Recurring stampedes expose decay in urban infrastructure. Govt must do more than lip service

India's record on stampedes is bleak. Even with repeated occurrences and deaths, there has been no significant shift in the public administration’s approach to crowd control.

PPP thrust in Budget 2025 but breaking from trend capex for infra sector flat

Little headroom for capex as govt focus shifts to consumption; expects private sector to do some heavy lifting in infrastructure.

Announced in Feb, rolled out in July, less than 5% of govt’s Rs 10,000-cr urban infra fund spent so far

Urban Infrastructure Development Fund aims to help bridge gap in essential services in Tier-2 & 3 cities. Till Dec 1st week, 'project proposals worth roughly Rs 650 cr' submitted for 2023-24. 

From tunnels to highest airfield — nearly 90 infra projects inaugurated along borders

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said it was time to move forward with the mantra of ‘minimum environment degradation, maximum national security, maximum welfare’.

India’s infrastructure output rises to 8.2% in June, says government data

According to a separate data, the Indian government’s capital spending increased 59% in the April-June period.

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

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.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.