Indian Cities

India among 4 nations with cities at risk from extreme heat: Study

India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ghana together host the largest number of cities at risk of extreme heat, with major tourist destinations including Jaipur and international business hubs in the top 50, according to an analysis that has ranked 205 of the world's largest cities. More than 95 per cent of the most at-risk cities are in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Iraq's city of Al Basrah is the world's most at-risk, followed by Ahmedabad in Gujarat, the study published in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society says, identifying places where people are most in danger as the planet continues to warm. Fourteen Indian cities that featured in the top 50 at-risk locations included Nagpur and Pune in Maharashtra, Madurai and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka's Bengaluru and Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur and Lucknow. Lead author, Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam, a researcher at the UK's Oxford University, said, "It isn't just exposure to hot temperatures that matters for risk. Our .

Quick-commerce battle: Why Amazon & Flipkart are chasing tier-2 cities

India’s quick-commerce battle is intensifying as Amazon Now and Flipkart Minutes scale up their operations beyond metro cities. Amazon plans to take Amazon Now to over 300 cities

Best of BS Opinion: Can India's AI gap be a blessing in disguise?

Today's Opinion page examines AI-driven market exuberance, Dharmendra Pradhan's political prospects, the growing importance of E-E-A-T, and India's deepening urban governance challenge

Urban heat islands: Why Indian cities are becoming unliveable after dark

Indian cities are warming faster at night, turning homes into heat traps and exposing gaps in housing, planning and cooling access as AC demand rises

More than 100 cities: Why Amazon is expanding its quick commerce service

Amazon is set to expand its ultra-fast delivery service, Amazon Now, to 100 cities across India. The company plans to scale the service through more than 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers.

India's urban shift: Some Budgets launch schemes, others reshape system

At its core, India's urban rejuvenation challenge is institutional. Long-life assets need long-term capital, but municipal revenues and investor confidence remain limited

India must treat design as a civic skill to build more liveable cities

The scale of the challenge becomes clearer when one examines who is expected to design India's urban future

India, six other nations to add 500 mn new city residents by 2050: UN

Nearly 30 per cent of the global city population will be concentrated in seven countries in 2025, and a UN report says their choices on planning, climate resilience and investment will shape how city

It's raining crises: Cities need urgent plans for climate change impacts

At first glance, the easy culprit to pinpoint is growing indiscriminate urbanisation

Can agglomeration logic still help our people-dense, infra-scarce cities?

Urban agglomeration has long been assumed to lead naturally to growth, but India's failing infrastructure and environmental stress tell a different story

Small Indian cities to witness high retail developments by 2029: Report

30 per cent of institutionally held retail assets are located across 12 Tier II and Tier III Indian cities

Govt planning to form 'Golden City Club' for top-performing cities: Khattar

The government is planning to introduce the 'Golden City Club' initiative aimed at recognising cities that consistently excel in various development indicators, Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced on Friday. Khattar explained that this initiative will create a special category for cities which hold top ranks in government assessments across the country. "This year, we have devised a plan where those cities that come first every time will be grouped into a separate category called the 'Golden City Club,'" the union minister said. He further elaborated that only cities securing top positions in their respective categories would be included in the club. Each year, a new city that bags the top ranks in its vertical will be added to this prestigious club. "Every year, the top-ranking city will join the Golden City Club, and there will be separate competitions for this club," Khattar explained. However, the club will not be permanent for its members. Cities that fail to mainta

Residential sales in top cities expected to witness double-digit growth

ICRA expects the average sale price (ASP) to increase further by 5-6% in FY2025

Rents in India have increased by up to 64% in last five years: Report

Housing supply slowed down rent growth in major cities in first quarter of FY24, says real estate consultancy Anarock

India may house 100 cities with population over 1 million by 2050

The report, "Equitable Growth and Emerging Real Estate Hotspots", assessed more than 100 emerging cities, prioritizing growth potential and real estate attractiveness

Urbanisation led to 60% more night-time warming in Indian cities: Report

Urbanization has led to nearly 60 per cent more night-time warming in over 140 prominent Indian cities compared to non-urban areas surrounding them, a new research from the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar has found. According to the research, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Rajkot had the highest urban effect, while Delhi-NCR and Pune were found to be at the fourth and fifth position, respectively. Urbanisation is known to be responsible for the urban heat island (UHI) effect, in which the concrete and asphalt (used in constructing roads and pavements) surfaces store heat during the day and release it in the evening, thereby raising night-time temperatures. Over time, this heat further affects other aspects of climate, including rainfall and pollution, researchers said in the study published in the journal Nature Cities. The study sought to determine how much urbanisation and local climate change each contributed to raising night-time temperatures over the past two decades ...

Luxury members-only club Soho House coming to Delhi and South Mumbai

Company introduces Cities Without Houses membership format in six Indian cities

For decongesting their clogged roads, Indian cities must take the bus

Dedicated lanes for the public transport can be more economical than Metro networks

After 4 yrs of decline, insurers ramp up presence in smaller cities in FY23

According to the latest data released by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), during 2022-23, the presence of life insurers rose by nearly 3.5 per cent year-on-year

New cities from old cities

In the current wave of building smart cities, we must focus on creating equal cities that bridges the development divide between the core and the outskirts