He designed some of India's most iconic buildings.
Heckling, confrontation and strong-arm tactics don't come to him easily, reveals Aditi Phadnis.
She looked into the depths of Kashi's soul.
The going is not going to be easy for the DMK and its allies in Elections 2024. Despite the seats sweepstake in the 2021 assembly polls, the vote-share difference of 5.6% (DMK's 45.38% versus AIADMK-BJP's 39.72%) is not insurmountable on a bad day, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Union women and child development minister also asked the Kerala government where the money given to the state for sterilisation of dogs has been spent.
'The jobs that are being created now are the delivery boy jobs which are of extremely poor quality, or contractual jobs where you hire a person on a per piece basis.'
The states where these monuments are untraceable are Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
It looks as if competing political parties in Tamil Nadu have not grasped the full impact and import of a sizable section of voters possibly staying away from voting -- voters, supposedly with a predictable polling pattern -- owing to the Covid second wave and more so, how it could affect the outcome in individual constituencies and even booths, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Rapid urbanisation, multi-storeyed buildings and development projects have led to disappearance of 35 Centrally-protected monuments and sites across the country.
India needs significantly more domestic wherewithal to achieve and sustain the stated objective of 7-9 per cent growth.
We need a comprehensive redevelopment plan that seeks to redesign our overgrown cities in terms of connectivity, mobility and liveability.
When completed, these ambitious projects would change cities and some may even change nations.
Sizes of cities often turn out to be their enemies because everything costs a bomb to build and operate, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Delhi has become the world's second most populous city in 2014 after Tokyo, more than doubling its population since 1990 to 25 million, according to a United Nations report.
NURM is aimed at overhauling infrastructure facilities of the cities, especially the old ones.
Youth are at the centre of urbanisation. They add energy, vibrancy, creativity and digital age talent to cities.
Governments are increasingly putting pressure on industries to adopt best international practices to improve water management.
Land pooling refers to amassing small land parcels for infra development and returning approximately 60% of the redeveloped land to the original owners
India is home to almost 1.3 billion people.
While the New Delhi Municipal Council area was given the 'Cleanest Small City' award, Uttarakhand's Gauchar was adjudged the 'Best Ganga Town' in the central government survey.
Indian coffee shops market over the next four-five years will grow between 6 and 18 per cent CAGR, all due to the growing coffee culture among the youth, increasing urbanisation, rising disposable income levels and changing eating and drinking preferences, says Atanu Biswas.
'You can't take jobs to people, you have to take people to jobs.'
'The reality is no one, including some of the names that have shown up in the last few weeks, have any unilateral decision-making power in this,' Facebook India MD Ajit Mohan tells Peerzada Abrar.
Cisco's CEO says India's urban planners urgently need to think innovatively to prepare for the unprecedented migration from villages that is expected over the next decade.
Creation of 115 million non-farm jobs over next decade critical to sustaining growth, says McKinsey
With its fleet of nearly 1,000 electric three-wheelers in Delhi-NCR, it moves around 100,000 commuters daily. The company will use the funding to rapidly increase its fleet size within Delhi-NCR as well as other key cities around the country.
Modi govt pushed very hard the concept of smart cities in 2014.
India is likely to be the third largest economy with a gross domestic product size of $15 trillion by 2030, says Standard Chartered's Super-Cycle Report.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that instead of viewing urbanisation as a challenge it should be converted into an opportunity.
Let's take a look at 14 infrastructure sectors that need immediate attention.
From majestic forts to scenic lakes, choose between trips that offer the best of history and culture and tranquility.
The catastrophe in Uttarakhand may have been unprecedented, but it is not as if the state government wasn't unaware of the looming threat. Government reports had warned of the unchecked dangers of urbanisation, and from power projects, notes Shishir Prashant.
Banks now ride on what is defined as a "banking outlet". This is a fixed-point service unit, manned by either the bank's staff or its business correspondent (BC), where all kinds of services - acceptance of deposits, encashment of cheques, cash withdrawal or lending of money - are provided for a minimum of four hours per day, for at least five days a week. Banks are now turning to reposition the manner in which they acquire customers, report Abhijit Lele and Raghu Mohan.
Mercer, the human-resources consulting firm, recently analysed living conditions in cities according to 39 factors, worked out basically to compensate employees of multinational companies when they are located in different cities of the world.
As India gets increasingly urbanised, one man tries to minimise its silent casualty.
Alibaba's pervasive economic and social influence in China is seen as a threat to the authority of the Chinese Communist party, notes Shyam Saran.
In a city where 45,000 people on average live on every square kilometre of space, making it one of the world's most congested, and it often takes two to three hours to negotiate a 20 km distance, even a railway overpass counts as a big urban milestone.
"FDI doesn't benefit any country; these investors are exploiting us," Says Madhav Gadgil.
The skyrocketing price of cemetery plots and funeral services has come has a shocker to millions of ordinary people.
Shift in economic balance toward the East and South is happening with unprecedented speed and scale.
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