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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
TopicIndian roads

Topic: Indian roads

AI startups are looking for potholes. It’s a race to solve India’s age-old problem

Startups are turning scooters, dashcams, and phone cameras into road labs to spot potholes, map them, and create warning systems for commuters.

Pimpri Chinchwad shows how to put people before vehicles. It’s a model for urban India

Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has launched several people-first mobility initiatives, including India’s first 15-minute city pilot, which is redesigning key corridors for walkers and cyclists.

460 road deaths every day—10 Indian states have come up with safety models. It’s working

India has ambitiously pledged to halve road crash deaths by 2030. The question is not if we can tackle this crisis, but how swiftly we can act.

Eye on ‘quality’, road ministry to shift to PPP mode for construction, cut back govt-funded projects

Union road secretary Anurag Jain announced the policy shift Thursday, adding that the ministry is aiming for all projects costing more than Rs 500 crore to be executed in PPP mode.

India’s road infrastructure beginning to look impressive. But it’s a long way from world-class

We are in the middle of an incredible infrastructure-building spree that occurs once in several generations in most countries, and we must keep it going.

India Inc’s debt snarl is holding up PM Modi’s infrastructure drive

Companies that aren’t in the best position to handle the debt have been among the most aggressive to bid for projects.

Kerala is pulling plastic from the oceans to build roads

There are more than 34,000km of plastic roads in India, mostly in rural areas.

On Camera

My first meeting with Modi ji in 1996 gave me a living model of leadership: ML Khattar

As Modi enters his seventy-sixth year of service to the nation, I join millions in wishing him strength and success.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.