Metro shed shifting cost will be over Rs 200 cr: MMRDA

The estimated rise in the cost for relocating the metro car shed project from Aarey Colony to new site Kanjurmarg in Mumbai will be more than Rs 200 crore, the Maharashtra cabinet was told on......

Uddhav directs withdrawal of cases against Aarey activists

Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday directed the state home department to withdraw cases registered against protesters last year for opposing felling of trees for a proposed......

COVID-19: How Mumbai has been done in by poor planning

Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a “sad reality”.  Dev Chatterjee and Raghavendra Kamath......

'Bharat Bandh' draws mixed response; violence in Bengal

IMAGE: Members of Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) block the Trivandrum Express during the nationwide 'Bharat Bandh', in Guwahati, on Wednesday. Photograph: PTI Photo Members of 10 central......

Infra developers in wait and watch mode in new Uddhav-led coalition govt

Shiv Sena has so far expressed concerns over car shed for the city's planned metro network, the bullet train and the West Coast refinery projects. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com After......

Jewar airport needs to chart its own path

And learn what not to do from the so far jinxed Navi Mumbai International Airport, says Anjuli Bhargava. The airport at Jewar in Uttar Pradesh, being built at a cost of roughly Rs 6,000 crore......

Was India at all ready for monorail?

Mumbai Monorail was to be built in two phases - Phase I of 8.93 km and Phase II of 11.20 km. The first phase ran operations for around three years before services were abruptly halted, owing to a......

Bullet train will have 4 halts in M'rashtra, 8 in Gujarat

Everything you wanted to know about the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train but didn't know who to ask. The Rs 99,000-crore (Rs 990 billion) Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project has got a move-on as......