As Biparjoy crashed ashore in Gujarat last week, it uprooted 1,963 trees and 5,718 electricity poles, plunging 3,400 villages into darkness. Sheets of rain and winds gusting up to 140kmph pummelled the western coast and damaged nearly 500 houses, wrecking another 100. Yet, incredibly, only 23 people were injured and no one died after the […]
Tag Archives: infrastructure
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Jun
Jun
When Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who continues to use his Maoist revolutionary era name Prachanda, first visited India as Prime Minister (PM) in 2008, he had just emerged from an underground violent insurgency and won his first election. Weeks earlier, Nepal had elected its first Constituent Assembly. India was deeply enmeshed in facilitating Nepal’s […]
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May
May
It may be India’s tech capital and one of its economic powerhouses but the infrastructure of Bengaluru is in shambles. More proof of this came over the weekend when a sudden torrent of rain in Bengaluru claimed the life of a 22-year-old Infosys staffer after her car was stuck in neck-deep waters at an underpass. […]