Bhalchandra Chorghade

While the Mumbai–Pune Missing Link project will cut travel time, its real story lies in the tunnels and engineering ingenuity that overcame one of India’s most challenging landscapes For most motorists, the Mumbai–Pune Expressway is one of modern India’s great infrastructure success stories. Since opening in 2002, it has dramatically reduced travel time between Maharashtra’s political and financial capitals while becoming a critical artery for industry, logistics and commerce. Yet buried...

MMR A Data Centre Hub, Part – I Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) is rapidly emerging as the epicentre of India’s data centre revolution, with a combination of strategic location advantages, robust infrastructure and surging demand from artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing driving unprecedented investment into the region. As India’s data centre industry gears up to cross 3 gigawatts (GW) of operational capacity by 2028, according to CBRE’s 2026 Asia Pacific Data Centre...

Mumbai: Mumbai’s rapidly expanding second aviation hub may be preparing for its biggest operational leap yet. International flight operations from Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) are tentatively expected to commence from July 1, according to sources familiar with the development, although details regarding participating airlines, destinations, and flight frequencies are still being finalized. If the timeline materializes, the move would mark a significant milestone for the greenfield...