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The new bridge is expected to ease travel through the hilly agricultural areas of eastern Kozhikode

Concerns have been raised over stalled infrastructure projects, including sanitation, road improvements, and essential amenities at stopover points, which could hinder the influx of pilgrims.

Zelenskyy insists de-escalation depends on US ensuring Russia's genuine readiness to stop war and attacks on Ukraine.

Indonesia’s finance ministry is preparing to absorb debt payments for Whoosh, the China-funded high-speed railway connecting Jakarta and Bandung, in a move officials say will ease financial pressure on the state-owned enterprises that built and operate the line. The government has argued that the burden is manageable after the debt was restructured over 80 years, requiring annual instalments of about 1 trillion rupiah (US$56.5 million). But the plan has also raised concerns that taxpayers are...

Discussions also covered the State’s expanding port and aviation infrastructure, as well as its pool of talent comprising world-class doctors, engineers, and IT experts

Officials concerned say the government cannot access low-interest funding for the proposed acquisition or proceed with the metro expansion without clearances from the Centre

Costa Rica’s comptroller ordered CONAVI to fix seven Route 32 roundabouts designed for 16.8-metre trucks on a corridor carrying 22.4-metre units. The post Costa Rica Ordered to Fix Roundabouts Built Too Small for Its Own Trucks appeared first on The Rio Times.

French trade minister Nicolas Forissier visits Panama on 14 September with the Canal as the priority, alongside water, transit, rail and security projects. The post France Sends Its Trade Minister to Panama With the Canal First appeared first on The Rio Times.

Israel's destruction of homes and infrastructure in Gaza has forced Palestinians to rent generators by the hour.

Panama's 2027 budget assigns US$103.8 million to the San Miguelito cable car, awarded to Doppelmayr Panamá Corp. for US$255.16 million after the first concession tender collapsed without a single bid. The post Panama 2027 Budget Books US$103 Million for San Miguelito Cable Car appeared first on The Rio Times.

The Minister admits that the project, initially launched in 2017–18, had stalled due to severe operational hurdles

A proposal to the Chief Minister seeks a 10-15 tmc ft expansion of the Yeleru reservoir and five balancing reservoirs of 5 tmc ft each on up to 12,500 acres, fed from the Polavaram Left Main Canal

These demands were consolidated into a study report at a public meeting organised by Federation of North Chennai Residents’ Welfare Associations

Guyana's Region Two chairman says the region is in a record-breaking boom, while national figures show hinterland power capacity rising to 17.5 MW. The post Guyana Region Two Claims a Boom, With Projects Not Percentages appeared first on The Rio Times.

Ámbito reports the Milei government quietly signed an agreement that could extend the Argentina airports concession to 2056, with an option running to 2066. The post Argentina Airports: A Report Says the Concession Could Run to 2066 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Dr. Yathindra says Yadgir city currently receives 52 million litres a day (MLD) against a demand of 90 MLD. He asked officials to plan for the city’s future needs, considering the current population of around 3.5 lakh.

Philippine prosecutors filed a criminal charge on Monday against a lawmaker and cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr over his alleged involvement in a massive corruption scandal involving bogus flood-control projects. The case came more than a year after Marcos put the so-called “ghost” infrastructure projects, believed to have cost Filipino taxpayers billions of dollars, centre stage in a public address. Several construction firm owners, government officials and politicians have been...

Fresh off Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Kyrgyzstan, project officials have announced the successful drilling of a key tunnel along the long-stalled China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway. This marks the first milestone for the flagship project under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, offering China a critical trade corridor bypassing Russia. The 210-metre (690-foot) tunnel was the first drilled through in the Kyrgyz section since full-scale work began in June 2025, China’s state...

District cooling is a centralised system that pipes cooling to buildings in a 3-km radius and is metered like power supply; if a community has a dense population within a small area, district cooling system is ideal, says Grundfos India

The works include construction of check-dams, drainage facilities, sluices to prevent breaches along riverbanks, strengthening of flood-damaged embankments, and flood-protection walls.

The collapse of an unauthorised seven-storey structure in Gachibowli last month has left residents dealing with damaged homes, disrupted businesses and concerns over the safety of a neighbourhood that has grown rapidly upwards. As PG accommodations and hostels proliferate alongside new construction, civic authorities have stepped up enforcement against unsafe and unauthorised structures. Siddharth Kumar Singh looks at the changing landscape of one of the city’s fastest-growing neighbourhoods

With the main viaduct 2.53 kilometres long and 16.61 metres wide with four lanes, the structure takes off from Nalgonda Crossroads, flies over the Chanchalguda, Saidabad and IS Sadan junctions, to land at Champapet

In May 1983, MGR government issued an order to raise a structure for housing the Tamil Nadu Secretariat. But this was given up later. Nearly 20 years later, Jayalalithaa floated the idea of an Administrative City near Mamallapuram. When Karunanidhi returned to office in May 2006, he built the Assembly-Secretariat complex at the Omandurar Estate.

The rapid expansion of highways and other infrastructure is facilitating the movement of people and goods, while creating new opportunities for the automobile industry, the Prime MInister said