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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicSmart cities

Topic: Smart cities

India’s smart cities can’t handle monsoons. We are building flood traps

We’ve built over floodplains, squeezed buildings into every inch of space, and let garbage clog up drains. The result? Water has nowhere to go into homes, streets, and lives.

Nava Raipur is becoming the capital it was meant to be. ‘Edu city, spiritual city, IT city’

Chhattisgarh’s administrative capital Nava Raipur stayed half-empty for 20 years. Now, with MoUs signed, ministers moving in, and cafes opening, the city is stirring to life.

A Smart Cities Mission, outsmarted, and a Trump in dove’s clothing

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

As Smart Cities Mission nears end, axe hangs over special purpose vehicles powering it

Special Purpose Vehicles, with their dedicated team of data, tech and engineering experts, have played crucial role in successfully implementing projects under Smart Cities Mission.

Smart Cities Mission on till March 2025, but special purpose vehicles driving it face uncertain future

New Delhi: The Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) in Srinagar, set up in 2021 under the Centre’s Smart Cities Mission (SCM), served as...

Government launches 3 landmark urban initiatives

AMRUT, Smart Cities Mission, and PMAY-U aim to improve quality of life in urban areas.

Agra is No. 3 Smart City. Funds spent on potholes, parks, paintings, traffic jams, zardozi

Modi govt envisioned Smart Cities as grand urban digital utopias, but 10 yrs on, they are mostly doing what UPA-era Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission left unfinished.

Parliamentary panel tells Centre to identify reasons for ‘slow pace’ of its Smart Cities Mission

According to report tabled by standing committee on Housing and Urban Affairs last week, 47% projects in 20 cities under construction as of December. Mission deadline is June. 

Focus on mitigating urban flooding, other climate issues in 2nd phase of Centre’s scheme for cities

Plan is to integrate details of sewer & drainage network, water supply with land use info in master plans of cities, says MoHUA joint secretary.

Indore wins ‘National Smart City Award’ in Modi govt’s Smart City Mission, MP is ‘best state’

New Delhi: Indore was adjudged the best smart city in India in the fourth edition of the central government’s Smart Cities Mission, results of...

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

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.