Nearly complete, Maharashtra's tallest cable-stayed bridge is a critical part of Rs 6,690 crore 'Missing Link' project on Mumbai-Pune expressway, which will cut travel time by 45 mins.
Between Jan 2016 and Dec 2017, over 200 people died on the expressway, but the trauma care centre that was ready in 2014 has not been pushed into service.
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.
The challenge is no longer one of policy intent — the blueprint for a world-class ECCE system exists within the NEP 2020. The task now is implementation fidelity.
Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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