Just found that the raw satellite imagery from ESA’s Sentinal-2 project is now open. The resolution of the imagery is 10m/pixel, so not good enough for street level detail, but can be quite useful to monitor vegetation changes and infrastructure construction progress since the update cycle seems to be around 1 month.

Band 8 imagery with false color mapping showing the 5km long Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai

This is a great source for multiband imagery that you can use to do some interesting raster analysis in QGIS.

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