Infrastructure Woes
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Bihar bridge collapse: Construction firm gets show-cause notice, engineer suspended
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the incident occurred due to poor quality of work.
Scroll Staff
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Road-widening projects in Himalayas for Char Dham pilgrims could be a disaster in making
Scooping out trees, soil and rocks from the hillsides will make slopes unstable and cause landslides.
Seema Sharma
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How can governments make Bengaluru more liveable? By putting pedestrians first
Pollution, traffic and a host of other concerns can be resolved.
Vimal Simha
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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Bullet train project violates Japanese investor’s guidelines, claim Gujarat environment activists
The Japan government has invested Rs 88,000 crore in the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor.
Aarefa Johari
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80,487 trees and counting: Bullet train will dent mango, chikoo exports, say Gujarat’s fruit farmers
The proposed high-speed rail line cuts right through South Gujarat’s prosperous Agri Export Zone, and farmers are not happy.
Aarefa Johari
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‘Why part with good land for a bullet train we won’t ride?’: South Gujarat farmers rise in protest
In Valsad and Navsari districts, project-affected villagers say the land acquisition process has been insensitive, non-transparent and often illegal.
Aarefa Johari
Video
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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Watch: Glimpses of Indian singer Sid Sriram’s debut performance at Coachella 2024
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From Parsis to Adivasis, Mumbai’s metro project faces heat from citizens
The Metro 3 line will connect South Mumbai to the northern suburbs, but all is not well along the route.
Aarefa Johari
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Colombia: 10 workers die after bridge they were constructing in Chirajara collapses
The 450-m structure was meant to be part of a highway connecting Capital city Bogota with Villavicencio in the east.
Scroll Staff
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To fix India’s flailing public health system, health sub-centres need to be improved first
Health sub-centres are the first points of contact between people and the public health system. But many sub-centres need to do much better.
Kanika Sharma
The Reel
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Watch: ‘The Broken News’ returns for a second season
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ trailer: A teenager bonds with her grandparents during a summer vacation
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Crossing a bridge is a matter of blind trust. In India, is that trust misplaced?
The highways authority, Border Roads Organisation, railways and Public Works Departments in different states manage around 200,000 bridges.
Rahul Bhatia
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Not just Kolkata: Seven structures have collapsed every day in the last five years
The highest number of deaths was owing to the collapse of structures like flyovers.
Rakesh Dubbudu, IndiaSpend.com
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Why the Kolkata flyover collapse is a warning for India’s infrastructure industry
IVRCL's books contained warnings about its precarious state.
M Rajshekhar
The Field
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go
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Hockey: Salima Tete 2.0 – a speedster who is adding confidence and creativity to her improving game
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IPL 2024: Suryakumar, bowlers help Mumbai Indians seal thriller against Punjab Kings
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Cricket: Meg Lanning opens up about struggle with food and exercise that led to her early retirement