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Urbanisation

As rural villages face extinction, Japan is paying families 1 million yen to move out of Tokyo

Peter Matanle, The Conversation
· Jan 22, 2023 · 09:30 pm
Shillong’s Dalit Sikhs were vital to its growth – but are being written out of its story

Ipsita Chakravarty
· Nov 12, 2021 · 06:30 am
Canals may have created new towns in India, but they haven’t added non-farm jobs: Study

Nushaiba Iqbal, IndiaSpend.com
· Oct 17, 2021 · 07:30 pm
Chandigarh needs innovative approaches to save its green cover in the face of growing urbanisation

Kunal Sharma Swayam Chowdhary
· Jun 14, 2021 · 07:30 pm
Will leave no stone unturned to make India a global investment destination, says PM Modi

Scroll Staff
· Nov 17, 2020 · 10:31 pm
Meet the young engineer who gave up his plush job to revive wetlands in Greater Noida

Shweta Thakur Nanda
· Oct 29, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Photos: In rapidly urbanising Bhutan, abandoned houses haunt villages

Dawa Gyelmo
· Sep 25, 2020 · 07:30 pm
Mussoorie and Darjeeling are among 13 Himalayan towns facing imminent water crisis

Disha Shetty, IndiaSpend.com
· Mar 02, 2020 · 08:30 pm
In a rapidly urbanising India, here’s how you can revive the dwindling bee population

Kartik Chandramouli
· Mar 01, 2020 · 01:30 pm
Why are Indian cities taking longer to cool down than their surrounding areas?

Sahana Ghosh
· Feb 16, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Does Delhi’s land pooling plan give owners a better deal than similar schemes in other cities?

Vijayta Lalwani
· Aug 19, 2019 · 06:30 am
Opinion: Why India must shift its lens from ‘population control’ to ‘population development’

Devender Singh
· Jul 11, 2019 · 06:30 am
Data analysis: Government’s flagship schemes for urban development have fallen far short of targets

Alison Saldanha, IndiaSpend.com
· Feb 01, 2019 · 09:30 pm
An Ebola-like virus called Mengla has been found in China

Muhammad Munir, The Conversation
· Jan 19, 2019 · 02:30 pm
Have Ola and Uber eased India’s traffic problems or made them much, much worse?

Harini Nagendra
· Sep 05, 2018 · 11:30 am
Can China’s Xiong’an New Area really live up to its billing as the ‘city of the future’?

Li Jing
· Jul 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Latin America has lessons for the world on how to tackle income inequality

Alice Evans, The Conversation
· Dec 19, 2017 · 11:30 pm
Infernal cities: Like London in a bygone age, Delhi has turned into the site of nightmares

Ipsita Chakravarty
· Nov 14, 2017 · 12:30 pm
Sponges, urban forests, air corridors: How nature can help countries keep cool as the world gets hot

Astrid Zweynert
· Sep 27, 2017 · 09:30 pm
Lab notes: Districts with higher urbanisation have are more prone to cholera in their rural areas

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan
· Sep 15, 2017 · 05:30 am