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On April 16, 1853, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway ran the first passenger train in India and Asia, carrying about 400 guests roughly 34km from Bombay's Bori Bunder to Thane.

Leopold Cafe was founded in Colaba in 1871 by Irani immigrants, part of the wave of Zoroastrian cafes that shaped how Bombay eats out, and has outlasted almost all of them. It became a fixture for travellers along the Causeway, and was one of the sites attacked in November 2008 - it reopened days afterwards and kept the bullet marks in its walls.

The East Indian Railway brought its new Howrah terminus, designed by Halsey Ricardo, into service across the Hooghly from Kolkata, replacing the original 1854 station building. Its North Wing's six platforms were built to absorb traffic that had grown sharply since the Bengal-Nagpur Railway opened its Calcutta Extension Line into Howrah in 1900.

The first 17km stretch of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS, India's first regional rapid rail line, was inaugurated as "Namo Bharat," opening to passengers the next day.

Rescuers freed all 41 workers trapped for 17 days after a Himalayan highway tunnel collapsed in Uttarakhand, India, in one of the largest tunnel rescue operations on record.

The Surat Diamond Bourse in India took the title of world's largest office building from the Pentagon, built entirely to house the city's diamond-cutting and polishing trade.

Mumbai opened the first phase of its Coastal Road, an eight-lane highway built on reclaimed land and sea-facing tunnels along the Arabian Sea.

India inaugurated the Chenab Bridge, a steel arch railway bridge standing 359 metres above the Chenab River in the Himalayan foothills of Jammu and Kashmir.

The last 10.99 km stretch, from Acharya Atre Chowk to Cuffe Parade, opened to passengers and completed the 33.5 km Aqua Line, Mumbai's first fully underground metro with 27 stations. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation's managing director put the line's completion cost at about 30,000 crore rupees.

A modern Portuguese restaurant on the Portland, Maine, waterfront pairing Iberian seafood with Maine farm vegetables.

Built on flattened hills and stabilised mangrove swamp across the harbour from central Mumbai, Adani Group's Navi Mumbai International Airport began commercial flights on Christmas Day 2025.

Two more of the ten Common Central Secretariat blocks on Kartavya Path, along with the Seva Teerth complex, were inaugurated, taking to three the number of buildings in service in the Central Vista's replacement for Shastri, Nirman and Krishi Bhawan. The first three blocks, designed by HCP and built by Shapoorji Pallonji, cost 3,690 crore rupees and each spans about 150,000 sq m over seven floors and two basements.

The 82.15 km semi-high-speed corridor from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Modipuram in Meerut, with 16 stations, two depots and Alstom trainsets running at 160 km/h, became fully operational, covering the distance in under an hour. Deutsche Bahn's Indian subsidiary runs it for the National Capital Region Transport Corporation.

An IndiGo flight from Lucknow landed on the first day of scheduled service at the National Capital Region's second airport, whose first phase has one 3,900 m runway and a 101,590 sq m terminal for 12 million passengers a year, designed by Grimshaw with Nordic, Haptic and STUP. Zurich Airport International holds the 40-year concession, and the DGCA granted the aerodrome licence on 6 March 2026.

Chembur station opened on the Line 2B branch of the Yellow Line, taking the operational section to six stations after the first 5.8 km from Diamond Garden to Mandale started carrying passengers in April 2026. The station sits roughly 200 metres from Chembur suburban railway station and about 100 metres from the monorail, making it a three-mode interchange; Line 2B as a whole is estimated to cost 10,986 crore rupees.

India's longest expressway at 1,386 km cuts the Delhi to Mumbai drive to roughly 12 hours. Estimated date.

The first 8.4 km section of the Phase 4 Golden Line, from Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar, is targeted to open in December 2026; the rest of the 29.785 km Delhi Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor, 19 stations with 12 of them underground, follows in phases. By April 2026 civil work was 78 per cent done with five tunnel boring machines still at work, and trainsets had begun arriving at the modified Sarita Vihar depot.

India's finance minister presents the Union Budget for 2027-28 in the Lok Sabha, by convention on 1 February at 11am.

The 4.5 km four-lane elevated road ties the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link at Sewri to the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and the Coastal Road at Worli, crossing the Central and Western Railway lines near Prabhadevi on a double-decker structure whose lower deck replaces the 112-year-old Elphinstone road over bridge, closed to traffic in September 2025.

The first Shahi Snan of the Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha falls on 2 August 2027, drawing millions of pilgrims to Ramkund and Kushavarta.

India's first high-speed rail line, modelled on Japan's Shinkansen, is now targeted to open its first short segment in 2027, years later than originally planned.

India's Polavaram multi-purpose dam on the Godavari river, one of the country's largest irrigation and hydropower projects, is racing toward completion under a Rs 12,157 crore central funding boost.

India's first high-speed line, 508 km of Japanese Shinkansen technology cutting the Mumbai to Ahmedabad trip to about two hours. Estimated date.

The 17.17 km link, whose main span is a 9.8 km eight-lane bridge over the Arabian Sea with four connectors at Bandra, Carter Road, Juhu and Versova, carries the coastal road north from the Bandra-Worli Sea Link to Versova. About 30 per cent of the work was done by early 2026 and the cost has been revised twice, to 18,120.96 crore rupees in 2024.

The 18th Lok Sabha's five-year term runs to June 2029, so India's next general election falls in the spring of that year. Kalshi dates its market to April 30, 2029, and on 20 September 2026 it had Narendra Modi at 51%, Yogi Adityanath at 19% and Rahul Gandhi at 6.5%.

India's first offshore port built on reclaimed land off Vadhavan, with a 20 m draft deep enough for 233,000 DWT container ships, is being built by Vadhavan Port Project Limited, a company of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (74 per cent) and the Maharashtra Maritime Board. The 76,220 crore rupee port broke ground on 30 August 2024 and its first phase is to handle 6.85 million TEUs by 2030.