Manufacturing

FICCI promotes MSMEs and Startups FICCI President Rashesh Shah said the Industry Chambers' role must change now from just a one-way channel for facilitating the industry's needs through government to also ensuring that the government and people's expectations and needs...

Enterprises remain upbeat on growth prospects The Second Quarterly Crisidex Survey shows Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) had a better January-March 2018 (called the Survey Quarter, or SQ), driven by gains in the Manufacturing Sector, compared with October-December 2017. CriSidEx...

Minister gives update on Rs.30,000 crore projects Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. About 400 Smart City Mission (SCM) projects, costing Rs. 20,000 crore, are in tender stage, and would be settled over a next 2-3 months, said Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister...

Focus on mentoring startups; research grants Aiming to foster growth for India’s nascent artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) ecosystem, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Google have come together to work on a range of...

Order covers design, engineering and manufacturing BHEL has secured a Rs.536 crore order to execute a 900 MW Arun-3 Hydroelectric Project from SJVN Arun-3 Power Development Company (SAPDC), the largest hydropower project in Nepal. Located in the Sankhuwasabha district, the...

Be transparent to Investors and society The Indian stock market is showing an increasing tendency for a zero tolerance for any perceived dishonesty on the part of companies, expecting them to remain fully transparent and compliant in corporate governance and...

Hydropower, tourism projects on the development list Nepal has invited Indian investors to participate in a wide range of projects including hydropower, tourism, telecom, transport equipment and food processing. Bharat Kumar Regmi, Charge d'Affaires at Nepal Embassy in New Delhi,...

Tech-models for improving farmers revenue Global technology house, IBM, will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide Indian farmers all the relevant data and platform for developing technological models for improving agricultural output and productivity for various crops and soil types,...

ADB urged to increase private sector participation India has requested Asian Development Bank (ADB) to expand its sovereign and non-sovereign operations in the country by providing financial assistance worth US$4 billion a year. Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, Department of Economic...

Move to reduce costs through automation Satish Sukumar has taken over as Chief Automation Officer at Microland, leading the company's efforts in the areas of embedded automation as well as in building Platforms on ‘As-a-Service’ model. “Automation is not just...