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Akhil Vaani | Four Days Of Rain, A City In Ruins: Why Mumbai’s Flood Woes Keep Getting Worse

Akhil Vaani | Four Days Of Rain, A City In Ruins: Why Mumbai’s Flood Woes Keep Getting Worse

Year after year, crores are poured into flood management, but Mumbai still drowns with alarming regularity

22.08.2025 10

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Opinion | Red Flags From Yellow Line: Reboot Planning, Funding & Execution Of Metro Rail

Opinion | Red Flags From Yellow Line: Reboot Planning, Funding & Execution Of Metro Rail

Indian cities cannot wait for sustainable urban mobility infrastructure. These must be constructed with lowest possible life cycle cost and with the...

12.08.2025 20

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Khel Vaani | The Greatest Fightback: Battle Cry Of New Indian Cricket Team Is ‘Never Give Up’

Khel Vaani | The Greatest Fightback: Battle Cry Of New Indian Cricket Team Is ‘Never Give Up’

A series named after some of the biggest legends truly lived up to the hype. Five Tests, each one going into the 5th day, and the series ends...

06.08.2025 10

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Khel Vaani | A New Polestar Rises In The West: And She Is Bharatiya

A 19-year-old Bharatiya, Divya Deshmukh, defeated her more experienced compatriot to make history.

30.07.2025 10

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Opinion | Fuel Ban On Old Vehicles: A Misguided Move In India’s Fight Against Air Pollution

Not allowing end-of-life vehicles to refuel will be counterproductive if people aren't given alternatives, and that can't just be a token...

27.07.2025 8

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Opinion | India’s Crumbling Bridges: A Nightmare That Must Stop Forthwith

Bridges continue to collapse in Bharat at an alarming frequency: some during construction, after completion, before inauguration, and during usage

14.07.2025 10

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Opinion | It’s Time For India To Set Up An Independent National Fire Safety Authority

Despite rising urbanisation & industrial growth, India remains unprepared for fire disasters. An independent national fire safety authority is no...

11.07.2025 20

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Opinion | Indian Aviation Mayday On June 12: A Monumental Air Disaster

As air travel in India is growing rapidly, it is time to fasten the seatbelt and eliminate all possible safety-related headwinds

17.06.2025 20

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Opinion | The Tragic Mumbai Suburban Rail Accident Was Waiting to Happen

Much of the rail infrastructure is outdated, having been built over a century ago with little regard for even incremental upgrades

14.06.2025 20

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Opinion: Time Now To Make Railway Stations Of Bharat Future-Ready

To make stations truly future-ready, the current modernisation plan must be reimagined, including the substantial construction of new, modern and...

11.06.2025 10

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Infra Vaani | Delayed By History, Delivered By New India: Kashmir’s Railway Moment

Though the train to Kashmir might have been delayed for decades, it has arrived just in time. The wait in perpetuity is finally over, and it is the...

07.06.2025 30

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Akhil Vaani | Bharat’s Urban Flooding Crisis: How We Got Here, And What Must Change

To effectively combat urban floods in India, a multi-pronged approach is essential, involving improved drainage, flood-resilient urban planning, and...

01.06.2025 10

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Akhil Vaani | The Prozac Paradox: 50 Years On, Why Is Mental Illness Skyrocketing?

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1 in 8 people globally—i.e., 970 million or 12.5 per cent of the world’s population—live with...

29.05.2025 50

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Opinion | With Indian Judiciary On Trial, It's Time For Fundamental Reforms

Justice BR Gavai starts his innings as the Chief Justice of India at a time when the criminal justice system in Bharat is in disarray and faces...

19.05.2025 10

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Akhil Vaani | Urgent Structural Overhaul Is The Only Hope For Indian Prisons

Overcrowded with undertrials and plagued by systemic failures, India's prison system demands more than just reform – it needs a revolution

15.05.2025 20

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Opinion | No More Band-Aids: India’s Police System Needs Radical Restructuring

We cannot build a Viksit Bharat without a reformed, humane, and citizen-centric police force

01.05.2025 10

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Opinion | Time To Reboot The Criminal Jurisprudence System In Bharat

It is time to reboot the broken criminal justice system with speaking, bold and persistent actions to break the vicious cycle

29.04.2025 10

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Akhil Vaani | From Railway Underdog To E-Commerce Powerhouse: The IRCTC Story

IRCTC's e-commerce success is a story of navigating internal resistance, embracing innovation, and ultimately transforming the Indian Railways...

22.03.2025 7

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Khel Vaani | Bharat’s Coronation: Champions Trophy Seals White-Ball Supremacy

From Rohit Sharma's leadership to Ravindra Jadeja's final flourish, every player contributed to Bharat's Champions Trophy triumph. This...

11.03.2025 30

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Akhil Vaani | India’s Airpocalypse: A Future We Can’t Afford

India's air pollution crisis is worsening. Delhi now tops the list of the world's most polluted cities, and India accounts for a staggering...

02.03.2025 10

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Akhil Vaani | ‘Maha’ Lessons For Bharat From The Maha Kumbh

The lessons are abundant, but the most crucial ones pertain to the management of large-scale events, high-level crowd control, transport provisioning,...

28.02.2025 10

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Akhil Vaani | New Delhi Station Stampede Calls For Measures To Make Railways Ready For Traffic Surge

New Delhi has not only become the busiest station in the country, but also the one which accounts for the highest passenger income. But in more than...

17.02.2025 30

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Opinion | Jalgaon Train Tragedy: Another Avoidable Disaster On Indian Railways

23.01.2025 10

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Opinion | Caste-Based Quotas and Quest for Viksit Bharat

Written By: Akhileshwar Sahay News18.com Last Updated: August 05, 2024, 18:30 IST New Delhi, India Anti-caste activists hold up posters of BR...

05.08.2024 3

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