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TopicMumbai Trans Harbour Link

Topic: Mumbai Trans Harbour Link

13 dead after boat capsizes near Mumbai harbour after colliding with a naval craft

Maharashtra CM Fadnavis said that 10 of the dead are civilian passengers while 3 are from the Navy. The boat was on its way to Elephanta Caves when it capsized.

Unveiling India’s longest sea bridge MTHL, Modi makes big infra push, takes digs at past govt

Polls just months away, the PM, at the inauguration in Mumbai, spoke about how projects like MTHL, named Atal Setu after former prime minister Vajpayee, are part of a 'new India'.

Shinde govt to name key infra projects MTHL & Versova-Bandra Sea Link after Vajpayee, Savarkar

Maharashtra CM Shinde-led cabinet approved proposals in meeting Wednesday three months after Dy CM Fadnavis's suggestion.

Samruddhi Expressway will take development, connectivity to remotest parts of tribal Maharashtra

The Rs 55,000 crore Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway project will act as the biggest force multiplier for creating multiple growth engines in the drought-prone Vidarbha and Marathwada regions.

How Maharashtra plans to make Mumbai & satellite towns a 250 billion-dollar economy in 5 yrs

Maharashtra govt's goal is to eventually make the state a trillion-dollar economy. For this, it’s pushing to boost the economy of its most valued asset — the Mumbai Metropolitan Area.

How India’s longest sea link is taking shape in Mumbai one span at a time & notching many firsts

The 22-km Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link is on track to meet December 2023 deadline, officials say. It’s also setting the bar by using technologies that have not been seen before in India.

Infra projects to boost connectivity in 129 villages around Mumbai, MMRDA wants planning rights

MMRDA has identified 129 villages in the region & categorised them into 8 ‘growth centres’, wants to be special planning authority to ‘avoid haphazard development’

A first in India: Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link to have special decks to make longer-span bridge

'Orthotropic' steel decks allow for 6 times longer spans, accelerated construction, and are more economical. Technology is coming to India for the first time.

How Fadnavis govt fast-tracked Mumbai infra projects, some of which were in limbo for years

The government may not meet its deadline of 2019 but has made substantial progress on projects such as the metro rail and Mumbai Trans Harbour Link.

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The very people that Naxals claimed to fight for have rejected them

Security forces are successfully neutralising top Maoist leaders. The extremists are finally being rooted out through the determined efforts of the Indian government.

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

What’s a National Security Strategy & why CDS Gen Chauhan feels India doesn’t need one on paper

In his new book, CDS emphasises that India secures itself through policy & structure, not a written NSS document. Israel never released a formal NSS, he mentions.

There’s an all-new N-word now. And India’s soft power has become its hard liability

India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.