development

‘Our roads will rival those of the US by the end of 2024,’ says Nitin Gadkari

Amita Shah

After nine years as Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari’s achievements include radically increasing the pace of highway construction to 28.3 km a day. But, he tells Open, his biggest success is the popularisation of e-rickshaws

Sports has emerged as Uttar Pradesh’s soft power

Navneet Sehgal

The state is setting up a sports development fund to promote new sports events and generate more jobs

War on Development

Siddharth Singh

Maoists resort to open political mobilisation to stop the construction of roads and security camps

Heartbeats of the Northeast

Dhiraj Nayyar

An intimate telling of an Indian growth story

Don’t Celebrate Yet

Madhavankutty Pillai

On India overtaking China in population and the demographic dividend not always paying

A High Watermark for Bihar

Ullekh NP

In a state scarred by drought and floods, a scheme converting floodwater into drinking water has brought in a wave of relief

‘UP Will Be a $1 Trillion Economy by 2027, One-Fifth of the National Target’

Amita Shah

Yogi Adityanath explains to Open how he made his state a secure place for investors

Investing In Yogi

PR Ramesh

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister is transforming his state with improved law and order, ease of doing business, planned industrialisation and development. A look inside his modernisation project

Joshimath: Once Upon a Town

Rahul Pandita

When the earth cracked open to reveal the inevitability of a Himalayan blunder

End Ukraine war to ease the pain of world economies, feel G 20 sherpas

Rajeev Deshpande

First meeting of sherpas hosted by India saw near unanimity on the need to end the conflict that is taking a heavy toll of millions of lives in poor nations