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TopicKonkan Railways

Topic: Konkan Railways

‘Seismic zone, risky terrain’: Engineering marvels-in-making, Chenab & Anji rail bridges to open up Kashmir Valley

While the Chenab bridge is touted as world’s highest, Anji Khad is India's 1st cable-styled rail bridge. Both will boost rail connectivity in region as well as link it to rest of India.

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.

On Camera

Strait of Hormuz crisis shows limits of US, say Chinese. ‘India most vulnerable’

Chinese online discourse situates the crisis within a broader geopolitical context, particularly the hesitancy of US allies to support Washington.

Amid supply crunch, govt offers 10% additional commercial LPG to states. But there’s a condition

India faces LPG shortage amid supply disruptions from Strait of Hormuz closure due to prolonged West Asia conflict.

Indian borders to US schools, Indian firm bags orders to supply surveillance drones to Texas schools

The company had secured orders worth over Rs 100 crore from the Indian Army in November last year. Its UAVs are deployed along India’s borders with Pakistan & China.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.