As many as four firms – Etihad Airways PJSC, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, TPG Capital and Indigo Partners – have submitted expressions of interest (EoIs) for picking up equity stake in cash-strapped Jet Airways. […]

Flight operations from Jharsuguda airport in Odisha (under the RCS) finally commenced on March 31, 2019 after a long delay. The maiden flight was operated from Hyderabad which recorded about 95 per cent capacity utilisation. […]

The US is likely to extend the sanction waiver for India. The sanction waiver extension will let the country continue buying Iranian oil as the existing sanction waiver expires in May 2019. In November 2018, […]

Ethanol blending with petrol is estimated to reach 7.2 per cent in the 2018-19 marketing year (December 2018 to November 2019) as against 4.22 per cent in the 2017-18 marketing year. Against a requirement of […]

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) delivered its 100th warship, IN LCU L-56, a landing craft utility, to the Indian Navy on March 30, 2019. The vessel is the sixth of the order of […]

The Shipping Corporation of India has awarded a five-year contract for providing emergency response services (ERS) for 33 vessels to the Indian Register of Shipping. The classification society’s ERS is aimed at providing round-the-clock technical […]

GE Power India has secured an order worth Rs 1.42 billion from NTPC for supply and installation of a low nitrogen oxide (NOx) combustion system for 10 GW of thermal power plant capacity across the […]

GE T&D India Limited has secured an order worth $21 million (Rs 1.5 billion) to execute a grid modernisation project from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited, as part of the utility’s roadmap to implement […]

RailTel has successfully deployed free Wi-Fi facilities at 1,600 stations under RailWire. RailWire is a retail broadband initiative of RailTel which aims at extending broadband and application services to the public. RailTel has provided Wi-Fi […]

IR has scrapped the flexi fare scheme for passengers travelling between New Delhi and Chandigarh on the Shatabadi Express. As per the amended rule, the Chandigarh Shatabdi fare has been fixed between Rs 575 and […]

NHIDCL has extended the request for proposal (RfP) bid due date for selection of the engineering, procurement and construction  (EPC) contractor for the balance works of the Zojila pass tunnel project from April 8, 2019 […]

The Madras High Court has quashed land acquisition work for the eight-lane, 277.3 km, Chennai-Salem highway in Tamil Nadu. The Rs 100 billion project is being taken up under the Bharatmala Pariyojana. According to the […]

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has approved Wistron’s plan worth Rs 50.91 billion to manufacture high-end Apple devices in India. The move is expected to propel the government’s Make in India initiative. At […]

The CERC has allowed Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (Powergrid) to offer its electricity towers to telecom companies in order to address the issue of deficiency of telecom coverage in remote areas. Powergrid will […]

The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has introduced a new initiative to collect and segregate plastic waste directly from households. A private agency will be deployed to collect the waste from the residents and an arrangement […]

The Vastral-Apparel Park stretch of the Ahmedabad metro rail project has commenced commercial operations. The 6.5 km stretch is a part of the North-South corridor of Phase 1 (41 km) of the project. The total […]