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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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Mumbai school principal told to resign after being targeted by Hindutva website
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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In his new book, journalist Boria Majumdar addresses BCCI’s two-year ban after an online controversy
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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: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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Watch: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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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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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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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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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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IPL 2024: Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar bowl Punjab Kings to crucial win over Chennai Super Kings
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Badminton, Thomas Cup 2024: India finish second in Group C following loss to Indonesia
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Fitness watch: Project launched in England to study causes of ACL injuries in women’s football
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IPL 2024: Bowlers, Marcus Stoinis help Lucknow Super Giants beat Mumbai Indians