The central government has signed a new wage settlement agreement for Group C and D category port and dock workers, with retrospective effect from January 2017. The settlement agreement provides a 10.6 per cent fitment […]
The MoS has relaxed norms for foreign vessels under Section 407 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, for the movement of fertilisers from one port to another within the country. The foreign flag vessels are […]
As of July 31, 2018, the Indian shipping industry had a fleet of 1,389 vessels of 12.74 million gross tonnage (GT) and 19.31 million deadweight tonnage (DWT). Of the total vessels, 936 were coastal vessels […]
A consignment of 1,233 tonnes of fly ash from NTPC Limited’s Kahalgaon power plant – was flagged off at Kahalgaon on National Waterway (NW)-1 for Pandu inland port on NW-2. Two barges of 1,000 tonne […]
The Inland Waterways Authority of India has launched a dedicated portal – Forum of Cargo-Owners and Logistics-Operators (FOCAL) – to provide cargo owners and shippers with real-time data on the availability of vessels. FOCAL will […]
The Ministry of Power has issued a directive to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to allow changes in any central or state government duties to be passed on to electricity tariffs to consumers post […]
The Allahabad High Court has refused interim relief beyond August 27, 2018, to private power companies against the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) circular on stressed assets thereby mandating the initiation of insolvency proceedings by […]
NTPC Limited has issued a tender for the import of 2.5 million tonnes of coal, to be utilised at the company’s coastal power projects in Simhadri, Kudgi and Farakka. The imports are estimated to cost […]
Coal India Limited’s (CIL) 1 billion tonne (bt) production target is likely to be pushed out to 2025 from the earlier deadline of 2020. Key issues for CIL in meeting the original target are logistical […]
Jharkhand is likely to be the country’s first state to roll out a pilot direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme for power subsidy. Under the DBT scheme, a subsidy amount against power consumption will be directly […]
Adani Power’s 4,620 MW Mundra TPP, Tata Power’s 4,000 MW Mundra ultra mega power project and Essar Power’s 1,200 MW Salaya TPP in Gujarat are likely to get relief as the state government is likely […]
GE Power India Limited has closed down operations at its Maneja (Vadodara) manufacturing plant in Gujarat with effect from August 27, 2018. Considering the current market situation wherein the company has more capacity than market […]
Indian Railways (IR) has inducted five new machines to undertake state-of-the-art maintenance of railway tracks. These include three dynamic track-temping machines, one ballast-cleaning machine and one points-and-crossing tamping machine. At present, IR has a fleet […]
The Ministry of Railways (MoR) inaugurated a new train service, the Kathgodam-Dehradun Naini-Doon Janshatabdi Express, on August 25, 2018. Besides connecting the two important tourist destinations of Kathgodam and Dehradun, it will also provide connectivity […]
A confirmation prediction tool has been developed to predict the probability of waitlisted tickets getting confirmed at the time of booking as well as during passenger name record (PNR) enquiry of the waitlisted ticket. The […]
The Union cabinet was recently apprised of an MoU signed between the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), India, and the Republic of Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI) on July 10, 2018 for strengthening and […]
The MoR has signed an MoU with the Federal Transport Authority – Land and Maritime of the UAE for technical cooperation in the railway sector. The scope of the agreement entails cooperation in the field […]
IR has signed an MoU with Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited for linking railway lines to metro coaches on the broad gauge network and creating a mass rapid transit system in Nagpur. The MoR has […]
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has invited bids for the second bundle of national highways under the toll, operate and transfer (TOT) model. The bundle consists of eight national highway (NH) stretches in the […]
NHAI has achieved financial closure for the first bundle of TOT projects. An upfront payment of Rs 96.81 billion was made by the Macquarie Group to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) based […]
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