R.S. Khurana is currently the chairman and managing director (CMD) of Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Limited (MRVC), a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Railways (MoR). MRVC was established to execute suburban railway infrastructure […]
The Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) – Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) – was launched on April 27, 2017, as part of the National Civil Aviation Policy, 2016, to make air travel a more affordable […]
Uttar Pradesh has emerged as one of the most active states in terms of pushing forward its expressway development agenda. Some of the key expressways developed by the state government are the Agra-Lucknow expressway and […]
Y.K. Raizada has over 40 years of experience in the planning, design, implementation and monitoring of generation, transmission and distribution projects. He is currently director, technical, Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (RVPN). He is […]
India is steadily moving towards a cashless economy. The digital payments space in the country has grown at a significant pace in the past few years. As per a recent market study, the government’s Digital […]
It has been a year since the Ministry of Shipping (MoS) allowed cabotage relaxation for the movement of export-import (exim) transshipment containers and empty containers. Fast forward one year. There has been a noticeable increase […]
Rubal Agarwal, additional municipal commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), and chief executive officer (CEO) of Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL), brings to the table several years of experience in working across […]
The Sagarmala programme was launched by the central government in July 2015. More than four years have gone by since then. There have been some hits and some misses, some achievements and some disappointments. Progress […]
Coal-based power generation continues to be the mainstay of the power sector, accounting for around 75 per cent of the total power generation in the country. However, the segment has witnessed a slowdown in capacity […]
India’s appetite for coal imports has been rising in recent years. Coal imports increased by 9.3 per cent to 126.91 million tonnes (mt) in the first six months of 2019-20, industry data showed. In 2018-19, […]
Akhil Mehrotra is a business leader in the energy sector with over 28 years of experience across the oil and gas, and power industries. As chief executive officer of Pipeline Infrastructure Limited (PIL), his work […]
The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board in Tamil Nadu inaugurated the first tertiary treatment reverse osmosis plant at Kodungaiyur in north Chennai on October 2, 2019, taking a major step to reduce the […]
The experience across the UMT sector in India can at best be described as patchy. There has been rapid uptake of metro rail systems. Metros will be operational across 25 cities within the next few […]
As of August 31, 2019, the Indian shipping industry had a fleet of 1,412 vessels of 12.73 million gross tonnage (GT) and 19.31 million dead weight tonnage (DWT). Of the total vessels, 955 were coastal […]
Hambantota International Port, located on the south-eastern coast of Sri Lanka, is a relatively new destination on the world maritime map. Although Hambantota has had maritime connections for centuries, its recent transformation from a modest […]
India is planning to open 100 additional airports by 2024, as part of a plan to revive economic growth in the country. For this, the government has committed investments worth Rs 1 trillion for the […]
Adani Enterprises Limited, the Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, Anchorage Infrastructure Investments Holdings and GMR Infrastructure Limited are the four bidders that have qualified for the Jewar greenfield airport in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The bids […]
The central government is expected to inaugurate Kalaburagi airport on November 22, 2019. Spread across 740 acres of land, the airport has been developed at a cost of Rs 1.75 billion. It was approved in […]
Vistara has signed an agreement with CFM International for the purchase of 26 Leap-1A engines worth $2.4 billion to power 13 of its new A320neos. The agreement also includes a long-term rate per flight hour agreement […]
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