The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) in Maharashtra is planning to set up a waste-to-energy facility at the Deonar landfill under the Greater Mumbai Solid Waste Management Project. For this purpose, Tata Consultancy Services, […]
The Yellampalli Barrage in Karimnagar district of Telangana has been operationalised, almost two years after the completion of construction works. The barrage will be used to source water for the first phase of Mission Bhagiratha. […]
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in Maharashtra has started work on a 6.5 km water pipeline connecting the Parvati water treatment plant (WTP) to the cantonment waterworks. The project, estimated to entail a cost of […]
Trial runs on the ITO-Kashmere Gate stretch (Corridor 3) of the Delhi Metro Project, Phase III, commenced on August 10, 2016. The 5.17 km stretch is expected to commence operations by November 2016 marking the […]
The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) has deferred the plan for the implementation of three corridors of the Bhopal bus rapid transit (BRT) project owing to shortage of funds. The central government has refused to provide […]
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) in Telangana has taken over the O&M of 14 sewage treatment plants (STPs), currently under the jurisdiction of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (11 STPs) and […]
Telenor India has announced that it will not participate in the upcoming spectrum auctions in the country. The move is reportedly aimed at signalling the operator’s intention of exiting the Indian market where it has […]
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MoCIT) is learnt to have cleared the Rs 35 billion spectrum trading deal between Bharti Airtel and Aircel. Airtel had entered into an agreement with Aircel to acquire […]
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has stated that the gross block of investments (including both tangible and intangible assets) by private telecom operators increased from Rs 3,656.65 billion in 2013-14 to Rs 4,315.97 […]
The government has imposed a penalty of Rs 23.13 billion on telecom operators for violating subscriber verification norms till May 31, 2016. The penalty has been imposed by the Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring Cells […]
DoT has issued demand notices worth Rs 1.1 billion to six telecom operators – Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications (RCOM), Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Aircel and Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) – to recover the first tranche […]
According to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), the next round of spectrum auctions will begin on September 29, 2016. A total of 2,354.55 MHz of spectrum across the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz 1800 […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a consultation paper on the review of network- related quality of service (QoS) standards for cellular services. The paper seeks to review QoS parameters and benchmarks […]
The Maharashtra government has decided to amend the State Highway Bill to incorporate the provisions of the proposed land pooling model. The move is aimed at expediting the development of the Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway project. The […]
NHAI has signed an MoU with IIT Kharagpur for a research project on Laboratory and Field Investigations on Panelled Cement Concrete Pavements for Highways. NHAI has paid Rs 12.5 million for the three-year project. This […]
The MoRTH is planning to develop a user satisfaction index to improve the country’s road infrastructure. The index will be based on continuous data collection through a centralised mobile application and will be launched by […]
In a move to minimise cost overruns and delays, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has decided to involve consultants engaged in the preparation of DPRs) for obtaining statutory and environmental clearances. Their […]
The Union cabinet has given its approval for the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The bill will amend 68 of the 223 sections of the Motor Vehicles Act. The bill also proposes 28 new sections […]
The MoR commissioned the first “green corridor” on the 114 km Rameswaram-Manamadurai section of the Southern Railway line in Tamil Nadu on July 24, 2016. In all, 150 coaches in 13 pairs of express and […]
The CCEA has authorised the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to monetise public-funded national highway projects. Only those projects which have been operational and generating toll revenues for at least two years after commercial […]
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