Manufacturing

Pradhan discusses oil&gas in the Emirates Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has invited companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to be preferred partners in the entire hydrocarbon value chain of India. The invitation was extended after Pradhan...

Gadkari gives project status   Gadkari address press conference on Ganga Cleaning projects. Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister Nitin Gadkari expects 70-80% of Ganga River cleaned by next March. “We hope to clean 70-80% Ganga by March...

Schneider Electric pays Rs.14,000 cr for strategic assets Larsen & Toubro has signed definitive agreements with Schneider Electric, a global player in energy management and automation for strategic divestment of its Electrical and Automation (E&A) business for an all-cash consideration of...

Modi-Xi seek a modus vivendi Modi and Xi inside a boathouse on Wuhan's East Lake on 28 April 2018. The two leaders held informal meeting 27-28 April in the central China city.   India and China have put progressive economics...

Quad designed in 18 months, says L&T Defence L&T Defence, the defence arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and one of the leading industry partners of BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd (BAPL), has completed the design and prototype realisation of the...

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...