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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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Topic: Infrastructure

These universities are less than a decade old but are facing a severe shortage of teachers

Central University of Orissa is running with just 17 per cent of permanent faculty, those in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka have more than 60 per cent vacancies.

Modi says Mumbai’s new infrastructure will be up by 2022, but the past isn’t encouraging

Bhoomi poojan and ground-breaking ceremonies are used as political platforms; construction often begins much later, and projects still take years to complete. Mumbai: Prime Minister...

Blow to Beijing: Bangladesh blacklists Chinese infrastructure firm

Dhaka’s move hurts China’s strategic play in South Asia & underscores the frustration among smaller countries over China’s strong-arm project financing methods.

Potholes are shaping the election rhetoric in Gujarat

This year the roads in Gujarat were in an unusually bad shape, and people stormed social media, the favourite platform of the BJP, to express their grievances.

Fadnavis’s BJP govt has failed to live up to Maharashtra’s mandate: Prithviraj Chavan

Congress leader and former CM says Fadnavis is running a ‘one-man show’, but his government hasn’t delivered on infrastructure or the BJP’s other promises.

Encouraging signs for economy: India ranks 40th in Global Competitiveness Index

India is the top-ranked economy in South Asia, 3rd among BRICS countries, and has improved in infrastructure, higher education, and labour market efficiency.

Homeopathy as Ideology

Criticism of the bullet train project shows our fear of scale is like mass hypochondria, where we fear real medicine and drift on with dainty, sweet, ineffectual pills.

Creating new winners

We can no longer argue simplistically that, if the government or public sector can’t do the job, call in the private sector.

Talk Point: Does border infrastructure determine India’s military posture towards China?

While China has developed infrastructure along its border areas, India lags behind. Is it a key determinant of India's military posture and capability?

Now, don’t lose the plot

The next big reform India needs is of its land laws.

On Camera

SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

SRK's impromptu party looked refreshingly ‘normal’ and as cool as the Birthday Boy himself. King of Kool could be another tag for the man who once declared himself 'the last of the stars'.

Nvidia worth $5 trillion: What does it mean for the market?

The chipmaker at the heart of the AI revolution may be the most influential stock in Wall Street history. Nvidia has been the primary driver of the market’s gains since the start of 2023.

Launch of India’s heaviest comms satellite is a level up for its soaring military ambitions. Here’s how

ISRO’s LMV3 rocket set off the CMS-03 satellite from Sriharikota Sunday. It weighs 4,410 kg, will primarily serve Indian Navy and has a life of at least 15 years.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.