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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...

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.

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...

SubscriberWrites: The curious case of the smart city mission

The smart city mission implemented by the central government has beenmissed on several fronts that hindered its vision translating into reality.

67% of total ‘Smart Cities Mission’ projects complete, govt tells Parliament. Karnataka tops list

Among cities, Indore has the most completed Smart Cities Mission projects. Central government allocated Rs 16,000 crore to SCM in Budget 2023.

Dholera, Gujarat’s futuristic greenfield city in making — from solar park to Make in India chip hub

A pet project of PM Modi, Dholera smart city has been shaping up at some speed. The first phase, spread over 22.5 sq km, is expected to be completed by 2025-26, officials say.

India’s one lesson from Covid crisis and work-from-home: How to build a real smart city

The work-from-home template offers a way for India to re-imagine its model of urbanisation. For that, it must stop aping Western cities’ models from a century ago.

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‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.