The central government is planning to set up a national electricity distribution company to ensure time-bound implementation of power schemes in the country. The decision has been taken considering the poor payment record of state-owned discoms […]
The Gujarat government has notified its Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Policy, 2018. The policy aims at the optimum utilisation of land and grid infrastructure and will remain in force for a period of five years. Under […]
Indian Railways (IR) has introduced a double-stack dwarf container service in order to capture lost traffic through a new delivery model for domestic cargo. IR has been able to generate an increased revenue of Rs […]
The initial public offering (IPO) of RITES Limited was oversubscribed 67.17 times. The issue reportedly received total bids of about 1.7 billion shares against the total issue size of 25.2 million shares. The qualified institutional […]
The Union cabinet was recently apprised of an MoU signed on May 29, 2018 between IR and the Indonesian government for technical cooperation in the railway sector. The MoU will provide a framework for cooperation […]
Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) is likely to commence trial runs on the Durgawati-Sonenagar section of the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project (Eastern Corridor) by December 2018. Currently, about 90 per cent of […]
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has laid the foundation stone for and inaugurated national highway and port connectivity projects worth Rs 67 billion in Andhra Pradesh. The national highway projects for which […]
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is likely to set a base price of Rs 68 billion for the second tranche of road projects to be auctioned under the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model. Reportedly, bids […]
NHAI is planning to buy back 20 national highway and 19 state highway projects spanning 3,160 km managed by private players. While the total cost of the 20 national highway projects is estimated to be […]
NHAI has awarded contracts for each of the eight packages of the Purvanchal Expressway. Gayatri Projects Limited has secured Packages I and II of the project, which entail the construction of the 40.2 km Chand […]
The government is planning to replace the multiple charges imposed on telecom companies with a single levy. It is currently examining whether existing levies such as the spectrum usage charge, licence fees and contribution towards […]
The government has extended the deadline for mandatory local telecom equipment testing to March 31, 2019, as requested by the Cellular Operators Association of India. The government will implement the testing plan in phases starting […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed the 64th Amendment to the Telecommunication Tariff Order [TTO], 1999. Under the draft amendment, TRAI proposes the removal of those schedules from the TTO that are […]
TRAI has imposed penalties on operators for failing to meet various quality of service (QoS) benchmarks during October-December 2017. While Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL) has been fined around Rs 3.1 million, the penalties imposed […]
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has given conditional approval to the merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular and has sought over Rs 72 billion from the companies as one-time spectrum charges (OTSC) and spectrum […]
Bharti Infratel has received approval of the Competition Commission of India for its proposed merger with Indus Towers Limited. Post the deal, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone will jointly control the combined entity, and the transaction […]
Bharti Airtel has crossed the 5 million subscriber mark in the Jammu & Kashmir circle. This can be attributed to the migration of 83 per cent of Aircel’s customers to Bharti Airtel. Also, the telco […]
RJIL has announced the launch of the JioGigaFiber service to offer advanced fibre-based broadband connectivity solutions to homes, merchants and small, medium and large enterprises across 1,100 cities. At present, the operator is conducting beta […]
DoT has directed Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) to provide details of the sale of its consumer mobile business to Bharti Airtel. These details will help DoT decide which of the companies will be responsible for […]
A concession agreement has been signed between Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (UPJN), Mathura Wastewater Management Private Limited (MWMPL) and the National Mission for Clean Ganga under the Namami Ganga Programme for the development of a […]
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