As India’s DPI continues to evolve, trusted location intelligence is poised to become the invisible layer that connects digital ambition with physical reality, writes Sajid Malik. India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has transformed identity, payments, and service delivery. Yet every digital service ultimately has a physical destination. That makes location intelligence an increasingly important layer...
Category: ECONOMY & POLICY
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AI Data Centre Leaders Map India’s Infrastructure Roadmap
Industry experts deliberate on AI-ready infrastructure, sustainability and investment at the AI-Powered Data Centre Conference 2026 in Mumbai. Mumbai, 22 July 2026: As artificial intelligence reshapes global digital infrastructure, industry leaders gathered in Mumbai today at the AI-Powered Data Centre Conference 2026 to discuss how India can build the capacity, technology and ecosystem required to...
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UDAN 2.0: Indian Aviation’s Next Act
Building on the framework of UDAN 1.0, UDAN 2.0 shifts its focus to scale, accessibility, and above all, operational sustainability, note Pushan Sharma, Mohit Adnani and Jagruti Mahapatra. The Government of India announced Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) 2.0 regional connectivity scheme on March 25, earmarking a capital of `288.4 billion to develop 100...
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The Apprenticeship Anchor
From construction and power to transport and engineering, apprenticeships are enabling organisations to rapidly build the skilled workforce to sustain India’s execution‑led growth, explains Deepesh Gupta. India’s infrastructure push has entered an execution heavy phase. Record public capital expenditure, expanding industrial corridors, and the rapid scale-up of manufacturing, renewables, logistics and transport are accelerating project...
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Managing India’s Data Centre Surge
With India’s data centre capacity set to rise sevenfold to 10 GW by 2030, robust frameworks are essential to avert long‑term strains on power, water, and infrastructure, argue Anupam Varma and Aditya Gupta. There is a particular kind of darkness that descends upon a city when the power fails, not the romantic darkness of a...
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Real-Time Public Works
The irreversible expansion of digital infrastructure and real‑time data will be critical to improving the reliability and quality of public works, affirms Virender Kumar. As India builds infrastructure on an unprecedented scale, accountability can no longer be determined by delayed reports. The country’s next leap in infrastructure governance will depend on the ability to see...
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Global Trade at Crossroads
Recent supply chain disruptions have exposed the fragility of global trade, prompting businesses and governments to rethink resilience through diversification, nearshoring, and strategic stockpiling, writes Vikash Khatri. In the present era, global trade is highly interdependent, wherein countries rely on each other for raw materials, intermediate goods, technology, and finished products. Such trade requires highly...
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From Cloud to Energy: India’s Geopolitical Stress Test
The West Asia conflict is reshaping India’s risk management and creating an opportunity to accelerate and complete its energy reform agenda, underline S&P Global and Crisil analysts. The sustained nature of the West Asia war is changing Indian risk management from providing immediate buffers to reorienting medium- to long-term strategies. Even before the conflict, the...
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The Economics of Road Safety
As India builds several kilometres of highways daily, road safety must move from the margins to the centre of national development to sustain the growth story, asserts Amit Thatte. India’s growth story is moving fast, but there is a hard truth we need to acknowledge. Every year, road crashes cost the country nearly 3 per...
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When Climate Hits the Grid
Intensifying climate shocks and rising asset exposure demand climate‑informed resilience across India’s power sector value chain, argue Zeya Farhan and Krishna S Kumar. India’s power sector is undergoing historic expansion, driven by urbanisation, electrification, and economic growth. Historically, India’s power generation fleet has been dominated by conventional generation capacity. However, in the last decade, renewable...