The central government inaugurated the 23.32 km Garjee-Belonia section of the Agartala-Sabroom new line project in Tripura on February 9, 2019. It entailed an investment of Rs 4 billion. The entire project involves laying of […]
The Haryana government has plans of constructing a 130 km new broad gauge rail corridor between Palwal and Sonepat at an estimated cost of around Rs 41 billion. The detailed project report for the project […]
The Ministry of Railways (MoR) has announced the extension of 22 pairs of train services for providing additional connectivity in the country. Earlier, the first successful extension experiment was introduced on the Gatimaan Express, which […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has developed the country’s first-ever electric locomotive with a regenerative braking system at its in-house research and development centre, under the Make in India initiative. The locomotive was recently flagged […]
IR has linked its locomotives via Indian Space Research Organisation satellites making it easy to track trains and automatically feed the control charts with a train’s arrival and departure information. The information will be acquired […]
IR has reduced the fares of Vande Bharat Express (Train-18) from Rs 1,850 to Rs 1,760 and from Rs 3,520 to Rs 3,310 for an air-conditioned chair car and executive class ticket, respectively, for a […]
The MoR is planning to revamp close to 50 stations at an investment of Rs 75 billion by end 2019. Some of the stations that have been identified are Anand Vihar, Bijwasan, Chandigarh, Shivaji Nagar, […]
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has laid the foundation stone of three national highway (NH) projects in Bikaner and inaugurated one project in Nagaur, Rajasthan. The first project for which the foundation […]
The MoRTH has laid the foundation stone for five national highway projects in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. Together, these span a total length of 632 km and are estimated to cost Rs 71.95 billion. These projects […]
The central government has approved the construction of the six-lane, 155 km NH 709-B connecting west Uttar Pradesh to Delhi. The highway connecting Baghpat, Shyamli, Saharanpur, Geeta Colony and Khajuri Khas is estimated to cost Rs […]
The MoRTH has inaugurated the third bridge over the Mandovi river in Goa. The 5.1 km cable-stayed bridge is the country’s third longest cable-stayed bridge and has been constructed at a total cost of Rs […]
The Digital Communications Commission has approved a number of key proposals including an audio-conferencing service under the ambit of the telecom licence, reducing the entry fee on very small aperture terminal (VSAT) to Rs 1.5 […]
The Uttar Pradesh government has approved the construction of the Ganga Expressway, which will connect Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh to Prayagraj in the east. The Ganga Expressway will span across Meerut, Amroha, Bulandshahr, Budaun, […]
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has awarded a unified licence for virtual network operator (VNO) internet service provider (ISP) to Verizon India. The addition of a VNO licence will extend Verizon’s service offerings, which currently […]
The government has issued show cause notices to Idea Cellular and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) due to non-compliance of TRAI’s drop call rate benchmark for the quarter ended September 2018. The show cause notices […]
DoT has asked BSNL to submit its 4G network funding and roll-out status report which will also include plans for equipment procurement. DoT needs this information as it is finalising plans for allocating 5 MHz […]
Telecom operators have requested DoT to defer the April 1, 2019 deadline for mandatory testing and certification of imported network equipment, citing paucity of labs to undertake such in-country screening as the reason. To this […]
The government has withdrawn a notification that sought to levy duties on key mobile handset components such as LCD displays, touch panels and vibrator motors from February 1, 2019. As per industry sources, the government […]
Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) has completed the integration of its mobile network in eight telecom circles, which is 25 per cent of its nationwide radio network. With this network integration, the customers of both Vodafone […]
VIL has rolled out its 4G services for Vodafone subscribers in 4,565 towns of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. VIL has also rolled out 4G services in 2,471 towns of Bihar and Jharkhand.
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