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Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Topic: Infrastructure

Mumbai record rainfall since 2005 exposes same old issues as city refuses to learn lessons

Efforts to augment Mumbai's drainage to 50 mm an hour is still underway while BMC is yet to fully rejuvenate the Mithi river, the city's natural drainage.

Household savings hold the key to funding Modi govt’s mega infrastructure plans

Large financing needs of infrastructure require long-term financial savings of households to increase but they actually show a steep decline in recent years.

Victorious Modi faces a $1.4 trillion roadblock

Modi’s decisiveness may have won over voters, but he doesn't have a track record of boosting confidence among Indian companies.

Narendra Modi govt turned to Nehruvian strategy for India’s economic growth

In her book ‘The Lost Decade 2008-2018’, Puja Mehra explains how the ‘India Growth Story’ has devolved into ‘Growth without a Story’.

Election promises are giving a big push to financing deals for infrastructure projects

Loans for projects came to Rs 520 billion in March quarter, the highest since 2011, compared with Rs 144 billion in previous quarter.

BJP’s Rs 100 lakh crore infrastructure dream only possible with pvt help, financial reform

Modi govt has spent Rs 19.3 lakh crore in 5 years on infrastructure. To meet the manifesto promise, it would need to spend over 5 times that amount per year.

Modi govt has done better than UPA on infrastructure but delays, cost overruns persist

One-fourth of central infrastructure projects are delayed under Narendra Modi’s NDA govt, while the number was one-third for Manmohan Singh’s UPA.

India’s Lehman has put genie of mistrust out of the bottle again

The collapse of IL&FS has put a question mark on India’s model of infrastructure financing.

J&K govt’s new panel will look after toilets, drinking water & electricity in schools

A five-member committee will be headed by the district development commissioner as chairman.

IL&FS troubles increase as more defaults reported, shows takeover not an instant fix

IL&FS failed to service principal and interest on loans from banks, inter-corporate deposit and commercial papers totalling 33.9 crore rupees due for the period from Sept 30 to Oct 4

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.