The Times Of India

UC Irvine student Cristi Lopes is writing software for "SkyTran", a virtual high-speed train based in Second Life. The virtual world will actually serve as a useful simulator for the real thing.

Government officials have plans to keep more than a million cars out of Beijing for four days this summer as an experiment to see how the city's notoriously poor air quality can improve.

Residents in some of Mumbai's state-built housing complexes have agreed to solicit bids for redevelopment of the nearly half-century old housing, called Middle Income Group residential colonies. Residents and the building community alike are excited about

In addition to a new underground metro project, the city has given final approval to an above-ground monorail.

A generation of planners is retiring in Mumbai, and there are too few willing to take their place.

An Indian columnist offers his perspective on California's fires and city-slicking deer.

An Indian politician supports the special interest group with the biggest influence on Mumbai street life -- hawkers.

In what is shaping up to be an international trend, transportation planners in Mumbai, India are considering following London's lead in taxing drivers entering the central city.