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Akhileshwar Sahay

Akhileshwar Sahay

- Opinion
- March 21, 2025, 3:19 PM IST
Akhil Vaani | From Railway Underdog To E-Commerce Powerhouse: The IRCTC Story
IRCTC's e-commerce success is a story of navigating internal resistance, embracing innovation, and ultimately transforming the Indian Railways passenger experience
- Opinion
- March 10, 2025, 4:17 PM IST
Khel Vaani | Bharat’s Coronation: Champions Trophy Seals White-Ball Supremacy
From Rohit Sharma's leadership to Ravindra Jadeja's final flourish, every player contributed to Bharat's Champions Trophy triumph. This all-around excellence cements their status as white-ball kings
- Opinion
- March 1, 2025, 1:14 PM IST
Akhil Vaani | India’s Airpocalypse: A Future We Can’t Afford
India's air pollution crisis is worsening. Delhi now tops the list of the world's most polluted cities, and India accounts for a staggering 94 of the top 100. This dire situation demands immediate action
- Opinion
- February 27, 2025, 2:38 PM IST
Akhil Vaani | ‘Maha’ Lessons For Bharat From The Maha Kumbh
The lessons are abundant, but the most crucial ones pertain to the management of large-scale events, high-level crowd control, transport provisioning, logistics, health and hygiene management, and safety and security coordination
- Opinion
- February 16, 2025, 6:09 PM IST
Akhil Vaani | New Delhi Station Stampede Calls For Measures To Make Railways Ready For Traffic Surge
New Delhi has not only become the busiest station in the country, but also the one which accounts for the highest passenger income. But in more than two decades, Indian Railways has not been able to get the New Delhi station modernisation story right
- Opinion
- February 4, 2025, 3:58 PM IST
Akhil Vaani: Budget's Clarion Call For Viksit Bharat's Infrastructure Development
India's capex story shall remain subdued unless the state governments get their acts right and invest at minimum an equal amount on capex as is proposed by the central government
- Opinion
- February 3, 2025, 4:36 PM IST
Akhil Vaani | Boosting Absorption, Fixing Implementation Bug: The Key To A ‘Viksit Bharat’
Union Budget 2025 has hit a record Rs 50 lakh crore, but simply allocating funds isn't enough. Fixing implementation bottlenecks and boosting capex absorption is a must if we truly want a ‘Viksit Bharat’
- Opinion
- February 2, 2025, 3:58 PM IST
Akhil Vaani: Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget Ticks Most Boxes And Does So Correctly
Given the domestic and international headwinds within which FM Nirmala Sitharaman has presented her latest budget, it is a near miracle that she has “pulled a rabbit out of a hat” unexpectedly in a surprising and unconventional manner
- Opinion
- February 1, 2025, 11:22 AM IST
Akhil Vaani | Economic Survey 2025: Deregulation As The Key To Transformative Growth In Uncertain Times
Raising the growth rate over the next two decades will require harnessing the demographic dividend through a deregulation stimulus
- Opinion
- January 31, 2025, 12:30 PM IST
Opinion | State Of States: Fiscal Ill-Health Threatens India’s ‘Viksit Bharat’ Dream
As states account for approximately two-thirds of public spending and one-third of total revenue, their fiscal performance is crucial for the country’s overall economic stability
- Opinion
- January 30, 2025, 4:52 PM IST
Infra Vaani | Faster Growth, Bigger Risk: India Must Prioritise Aviation Safety Now
India’s air travel boom is breathtaking, but safety lags. Prioritising safety through stricter oversight, improved training, and infrastructure upgrades is crucial before a major incident occurs
- Opinion
- January 25, 2025, 5:59 PM IST
Infra Vaani | India’s Road Safety Crisis: A Call For ‘Vision Zero’ And Just Reparations
A Vision Zero framework, coupled with substantial increases in compensation for victims, is essential for improving India's road safety
- Opinion
- January 23, 2025, 1:47 PM IST
Opinion | Jalgaon Train Tragedy: Another Avoidable Disaster On Indian Railways
The Jalgaon train collision underscores the urgent need for safety reform within Indian Railways. 14 lives were tragically lost in a disaster that could have been avoided
- Opinion
- December 31, 2024, 2:00 PM IST
Infra Vaani | The Dwindling Dominance Of Indian Railways
Indian Railways is rapidly losing long-distance passengers to roads, highways, and air travel. The ones leaving the fastest are higher-class passengers
- Opinion
- December 23, 2024, 3:33 PM IST
Infra Vaani | Jaipur-Ajmer Highway Truck Fire: Not An Accident But A System Failure
According to data from the MoRTH, over 5,000 accidents involving the transport of hazardous or dangerous materials occurred on highways and expressways in 2021 alone, which resulted in over 1,000 deaths

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