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...
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AI Factories: Turning Data to Scale
As India’s surging data demand reshapes the digital landscape, success will depend on designing AI‑ready data centres as critical infrastructure for smarter factories, notes Robert HK Demann. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only about software; it is also equally about infrastructure. Just as steel plants, refineries, and other industrial systems are engineered to run reliably...
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Nuclear power an inevitable option for Net Zero emission by 2070 and developed India by 2047
Dr Anil Kakodkar, India’s renowned nuclear engineer and former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, discusses the country’s energy transition, the critical role of nuclear power in achieving Net Zero Emission targets, uranium supply challenges, thorium opportunities, the SHANTI Bill, and the future of Bharat Small Reactors and SMRs, in conversation with Swapnesh Malhotra, a...
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Digital India’s Beating Heart
Crossing the milestones of sustainability, resilience, policy coherence, and capacity expansion will determine whether India can transform into a global hub for digital infrastructure, writes Manish Pant. An important cornerstone in India’s ambition to become a developed nation by 2047 is the creation of a robust digital public infrastructure backbone. And the world’s fastest‑growing major...
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AI is the transformative engine of the next century
Riding on the AI‑based solutions high, Pune‑headquartered prescriptive AI firm, Infinite Uptime, is now eyeing top‑dollar heavy industry projects in the US, Europe and Australia. Even as the company has earmarked up to 30 per cent capex for overseas expansion, Karthikeyan Natarajan, CEO, tells INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY’s Manish Pant that India must maximise its digital public...
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Data Centres: The New Cosmos
Elon Musk’s historic $75 billion SpaceX IPO is aimed at funding massive artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and ‘orbital data centres’ designed to deliver high‑performance computing directly from space, among other audacious goals. The surge in AI spending is truly staggering, with five main hyperscalers expected to spend $700 billion in 2026 alone. By 2030, global...
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AI‑Native Cybersecurity: The New Shield for a Hyperconnected World
Cybersecurity must evolve from fragmented, reactive controls to an AI‑powered, human‑led, always‑on model delivered through a unified platform, writes Sharat Sinha. The world has entered an era where more than 20 billion connected devices generate continuous digital exhaust. Every transaction, sensor read, API call, and remote login now feeds a vast digital nervous system supporting...
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AI‑Driven Governance for Capital Projects
Technology can play a critical role in mitigating risks, relaying signals across the project lifecycle much like a digital nervous system, asserts Mahim Chaturvedi. Capital projects are inherently complex, involving numerous stakeholders, dependencies, uncertainties, and varied data sources. Increasing resource shortages, external challenges, and interface issues add to this complexity. Traditional governance relies on lagging...
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The New Power Corridor
The nations involved in the proposed IMEC collectively account for nearly half of global GDP, totalling $47 trillion. Therefore, to fully unlock the benefits of this multilateral initiative of immense geopolitical significance, they must work towards resolving security concerns and harmonising trading regulations, writes Manish Pant. Experts often refer to the proposed India-Middle East-Europe Economic...