World News by Wild Rose

Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu virtually inaugurates the facility and says the plaza will reduce congestion and streamline vehicle movement; the plaza can handle 28 vehicles at a time on its 2 pick-up lanes. The Union Minister adds that the T3 Terminal will be ready by April 2027

The existing road will be widened into a four-lane road and there is minimal need for land acquisition. We will expedite the land acquisition process: Belagavi Deputy Commissioner

The new tank will replace the 35 lakh-litre tank the utility had earlier proposed in place of the destroyed chamber of the Thammanam tank

National Highway 748A spans from kilometre 273.4 to 331.33 in Raichur district.

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister Narayana asks the agencies involved in the capital construction to accelerate the works and complete the iconic buildings in two years as per schedule

Residents from Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram express concerns over unpredictable power cuts. While some users are yet to feel the impact, others say it is already interrupting their charging schedules, leaving them anxious about their vehicles’ readiness for daily use. KSEB sources advise charging during off-peak hours.

Numaligarh Refinery Limited, a subsidiary of Oil India Limited, plans to commission its 9 MMTPA expansion project by March 2027

Telangana Roads and Buildings Minister says almost all land acquisition issues have been resolved

VVIPs use separate arrival facilities, while commercial flights are being timed around special movements and multiple airports are being used to park visiting aircraft

The Minister for Road Transport and Highways said that full FASTag implementation will benefit the government by ₹25,000 crore per year

Repeated disruption of roads, schools, emergency services, water supply and ordinary mobility during heavy rainfall could not be treated as an unavoidable feature of urban life, the Commission said

A two-hour commute for a 14km (8.7-mile) journey. For Julius Dalay and millions of other Filipinos, this is just how public transport works in Manila: a mishmash of jeepneys, trains and buses that commuters are left to figure out for themselves. Dalay, an environmental planner, is resigned to the chaos. Reaching his destination usually involves hailing a jeepney, then cramming into a packed train and enduring a slow bus crawl along the capital’s main thoroughfares. “You either wait the jeepney...

Demand on the Netherlands’ power grid is outpacing its expansion. Charlotte Hughes-Morgan reports from Moerdijk, the village at risk of being razed for new infrastructure. (Source: Bloomberg)

The UK needs as much as £70 billion ($94.5 billion) of investment in its power grid by early next decade, with delays to upgrading aging infrastructure threatening to add billions of pounds to customer bills.

Pilgrimages across India are shifting from hardship to high-end comfort, fuelled by massive infrastructure projects, connectivity, and luxury travel packages. This commercial boom has escalating environmental and climate risks, raising debates over public spending priorities, writes Radheshyam Jadhav. Travellers to sacred spaces, however, feel the merging of spirituality and comfort is the new yatra playbook

It will benefit thousands of devotees visiting Tirupati every day by scores of trains, says MP Gurumoorthy

District Collector directs NHAI and departments to urgently address deficiencies on NH 66 and 544

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is developing a new platform to pool capital from institutional investors, aiming to roughly quadruple the private capital it mobilises for infrastructure projects across Asia, according to a senior officer. The mechanism will allow insurers, pension funds, and other institutional investors to co-invest in infrastructure debt alongside the bank across its 111 member countries on a programmatic basis, rather than negotiating deal by deal. Kim-See...

These projects include Arakkonam-Renigunta third and fourth lines covering 77 km, Whitefield-Bangarapet third and fourth lines covering 47 km, Hosur-Omalur line doubling spanning 147 km among others

The State government issued an order giving in-principle approval for constructing the complex at Foreshore Estate on an aggregate 25.55 acres of land

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Russia’s biggest Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the surrounding areas were attacked by drones overnight, damaging infrastructure and threatening to further squeeze commodity flows from the region.

The fresh final notification covers land parcels required for PRR-2, while work on PRR-1, divided into four packages, is at different stages of implementation

They recover stolen property worth ₹22.7 lakh from the accused; urge temple management committees to arrange CCTV cameras as their first line of defence against thieves targeting temple jewellery and idols

Chittoor District Tourism Council reviews tourism potential across six parliamentary constituencies, identifies infrastructure gaps and investment opportunities at several locations; Collector Sumit Kumar says that Puligundu and Ardhagiri temples are among the priority destinations