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India plans 13th Japanese industrial townships in Assam

To promote domestic manufacturing and strengthening economic ties between the two countries, India has decided to set up the 13th Japanese industrial township in Assam. Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry Read More...

LiuGong India Appoints New President & Sr. Vice President

LiuGong India announced the appointment of A Krishnakumar as the new President – India effective July 2020 and Alok Jha as new Sr. Vice President – Sales & Marketing effective August 2020. A Krishnakumar brings with Read More...

BMRCL launches ₹30,695-cr Phase-II of metro rail venture

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has launched the tunnelling work on the Phase-II of the metro project involving an investment of ₹30,695 crore and the CM has set in motion the work by one Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM.) Read More...

Dilip Buildcon bags ₹1,140-cr highway contract

Dilip Buildcon has bagged a road and highway project worth ₹1,140.50 crore in Telangana. The company has been declared as L-1 bidder in the tender floated by the National Highways Authority of India. The project, having Read More...

NHAI invites bids for road linking Gurgaon-Mumbai expressway

To accelerate the construction work for the extension of Gurgaon-Mumbai expressway to DND Flyway in Delhi, NHAI has bid out first two packages from DND to Ballabhgarh where the work is scheduled to complete by mid-2023. NHAI Read More...

Decks cleared for Metro Line 4 in Mumbai

Decks have been cleared to start the construction work on the Metro Line-4. The Bombay high court (HC) has allowed Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to cut 357 mangroves for the construction Read More...

KEC International wins ₹1,192-cr multiple contracts

MD and CEO Vimal Kejriwal informed that the RPG firm KEC International has won contracts worth ₹1,192 crore across its business segments in the domestic and international arena. The engineering firm has secured ₹821 Read More...

NHAI steers ₹4,000-cr Chandigarh-Ludhiana NH project

NHAI has cleared a ₹4,000 crore project that includes faster connectivity to Chandigarh from Ludhiana. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways informed that this will be part of the upcoming Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway Read More...

MoRTH speeds up 401-km four-lane new NH project

The National Highway Authority of India has fast-tracked the project of building 401-km long four-lane highway project crisscrossing Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The new road covering 90 km of length in Vizianagaram district Read More...

AP unveils ₹16,000-cr metro corridor along coastline

The state government in Andhra Pradesh is contemplating to launch a metro rail on the Visakhapatnam coast at an investment of ₹16,000 crore. The DPRs for light metro rail and modern tram corridors is being prepared by the Read More...

KMDA kick-start ₹600-cr flyover at Ruby crossing

Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has hastened the construction work of the 12m high flyover on an elevated corridor at Ruby crossing at an investment of ₹600 crore. The design for the six-lane Ruby flyover Read More...

Mysuru-Chennai high-speed rail on the anvil

The railway has fast-tracked the 435-km long high-speed rail (bullet train) corridor between Mysuru-Bengaluru-Chennai. NHAI will acquire land to lay tracks for high-speed trains along the greenfield expressways for Read More...

RBI infuses ₹5,000-cr in National Housing Bank

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended an additional liquidity facility (ASLF) of ₹5,000 crore to National Housing Bank (NHB). It is over and above ₹10,000 crore already provided for supporting the housing Read More...

L&T, IRCON & Medha place bid for Zojila tunnel

Larsen & Toubro, Medha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd and IRCON have placed a bid for the ₹4,400 crore Zojila Pass tunnel connecting Kashmir with Ladakh. The project, earlier awarded in 2017, was terminated after the Read More...

Cuddalore port in TN gets ₹135-cr expansion

The Union government has approved ₹135 crore expansion of the Cuddalore port which got the environment and CRZ clearances. The plan is to enhance the Cargo handling capacity with the construction of two additional berths with Read More...

Govt mulls 100% FDI in rental housing scheme

Urban development minister, H S Puri, informed that the government is set to allow 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in the affordable rental housing as it focuses on economical dwelling solutions for the urban poor where Read More...

NHIDCL floats tenders for ₹277-cr highway in Sikkim

The National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) has floated tenders for a two-lane road project in Sikkim in the northeastern region. The scope of work includes the construction and upgrading Read More...

Kolkata metro invites bids for ₹103-cr metro car depot

The Kolkata metro floated tenders for the construction of ₹103.1 crore New Garia Metro car depot, which will enable the crucial work as the completion of the depot is key to the truncated New Garia-Ruby Park (Hemanta Mukherjee) Read More...

Komatsu Excavators works wonder for BRO's project

Around 20 units of the Komatsu PC210-8M0 Hydraulic Excavators worked arduously at over 17,000 ft high altitude for a new 80 km mountainous road to Kailash Manasarovar constructed by the Border Roads Organization (BRO) Read More...

MoRTH disburses ₹18,700-cr to contractors in two months

To offset the adverse impact of Covid-19 on the road infra developers reeling under severe cash crunch, the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) and the NHAI have adopted faster payment mechanisms and disbursed Read More...

AIIB extending $3-bn financing for infra projects

Beijing-based multilateral funding agency AIIB is contemplating to provide loans worth USD 3 billion for various big-ticket infrastructure projects, including the Delhi and Meerut Rapid Rail, Mumbai Metro Rail and Read More...

DFCCIL connecting Haldia Port with Ludhiana

A K Sachan, MD, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation Indian Ltd (DFCCIL) informed that being one of the most prestigious infrastructure projects in the country, the Dedicated Freight Corridor is a high priority area Read More...

UP fixes funds for ₹36,000-cr Ganga Expressway

The state government in UP has planned to generate ₹2,900 crore from the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (Hudco) for the construction of 628-km Ganga Expressway project involving an investment of ₹36,000 crore Read More...

Jewar Airport gets ₹5,000-cr infra booster

The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) has signed an agreement to raise ₹5000 crore in three years for the development of residential and commercial projects in and around the upcoming Jewar Read More...

MRIDCL unveils six lanes RoB in Reay Road

The Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (MRIDCL) has decided to build a six-lane road-over-bridge (RoB) between Reay Road and Dockyard railway stations. The bridge will have a width of 12 metres Read More...

MoRTH approves ₹4,125-cr projects including a tunnel in U'khand

In a bid to decongest main cities in Uttarakhand, the Union transport ministry gave in-principle approval for the construction of a 2.74-km tunnel to be built in Mussoorie at a cost of ₹450 crore and other road projects Read More...

PNC Infratech wins ₹1547-cr highway contracts

PNC Infratech has secured two highway contracts, parts of Delhi-Vadodara Expressway, involving an investment of ₹1,547.80 crore from NHAI. The projects have been secured on EPC basis under the Bharatmala Pariyojna and the Read More...

NHIDCL floats tenders for ₹1,251-cr Bridge

The National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) has floated tenders for the widening of the NH-40 starting from Shillong to Tamabil linking Meghalaya with Bangladesh. Meghalaya Deputy CM, Prestone Read More...

Decks cleared for ₹3,000-cr metro line in Kolkata

Decks have been cleared for the construction of Joka-Esplanade Metro line in Kolkata with the Ministry of Defence allowing the construction work in the defence land area. Defence secretary Ajay Kumar informed that the Metro Read More...

Maligaon in Assam gets ₹420-cr four-lane flyover

In order to decongest the Maligaon area in Guwahati city, the transport ministry is set to start the construction work on the four-lane flyover involving an investment of ₹420 crore. The city gets congested during Read More...