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Monday, November 24, 2025
TopicIndian roads

Topic: Indian roads

Don’t blame Lamborghini driver. Indian toll plazas are for Maruti 800 era, not supercars

Who knows the Lamborghini guy escaped the toll on purpose. After all, they could not test the beast by touching the odometer to 200 kmph. Most highways in India do not have the speed limit beyond 120 kmph.

Making Middle East Great Again & why all Indian cars are off-road vehicles

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Bengaluru to Palghar, potholes are a death trap. AI startups racing to solve it

With two bikers crushed this week and a BJP protest in Bengaluru, potholes are a gaping hole in India’s road success story. AI startups are now tracking and mapping them.

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

DPDP Act will change how we interact with the internet. Get ready for the consent mails

India does not have a data protection regulator to make good on the DPDP Act’s promise and articulate clear future standards.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.