Intense monsoon storms battered India on July 8, 2024, flooding parts of the financial capital Mumbai. Credit - PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP—Getty Images When 28-year-old Sonelal Prasad left home on the morning ...

Editor’s note: This is the third of six weekly installments of “Dispatches from India” about Southern Oregon University Honors College students’ trip to India this month to learn more about democracy ...

In recent years, India has emerged as a focal point for architects and urban designers from around the world. From the rich legacy of masters and emerging firms to smart city initiates being ...

The BRICS member nations have accepted a proposal by India to establish a knowledge-sharing forum on urbanization, said Union housing and urban affairs minister Manohar Lal in New Delhi on Friday.

Dublin, March 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "India Prefabricated Buildings Market, By Region, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2020-2030F" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's ...

The ongoing growth of a major Indian city has helped experts to create a new way of understanding how urban sprawl happens, providing potential to improve people's lives across the Global South ...

Urbanization is one of the most consequential demographic shifts of the 21st century. As communities move from traditional or rural to urbanized ways of life, changes in diet, lifestyle and ...

India’s rapid urbanization is creating significant challenges, from infrastructure gaps, increase in pollution levels to rising affordable housing demands and the growing effects of climate change. By ...

Contemporary India is witnessing a profound interplay between cultural politics and rapid urban expansion. This dynamic encompasses the contestation of urban space by state actors, private developers ...

In the end days of March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled across the world, the Indian government imposed a severe lockdown that included closing down industry and transportation. Masses of ...