Manufacturing

Shinkansen selected on reliability record Japan's Shinkansen. A Memorandum of Cooperation has been signed between Governments of India and Japan to implement Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor with Japanese technical and financial assistance. The Japanese Government has agreed to provide...

Start-ups and SMEs to get opportunities in defence sector Eight projects have almost fructified and were about to be sanctioned while close to another 24 projects were in the process of coming through the Technology Acquisition and Development Fund, Defence...

Demonetization and GST to normalise Japanese banking group Nomura is bullish on India and expects a strong 7.5% gross domestic product growth in 2018 disruption caused by demonetization and goods and services tax (GST) normalizes. The risk, it says, is...

India has potential to export choppers, observers HAL made Dhruv helicopter. Hindustan Aeronautical Ltd (HAL) said it is ready to transfer technology to private defence companies in India to manufacture a civil version of the indigenous chopper, the Advanced Light...

JNPT to double container capacity Twenty-four companies have offered to invest over Rs.60,000 crore in a special economic zone (SEZ) adjoining Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), Shipping and Ports Minister Nitin Gadkari. Speaking at a seminar organised by Moneycontrol and...

VP Naidu applauds NMDC   Naidu at the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of NMDC Ltd., in Hyderabad on 8 December, 2017. The Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) have contributed immensely to the country’s economic growth and have helped in building a sustained...

US$50 billion turbines-cogen plant market by 2022 India’s Ducon Infratechnologies Limited (BSE:534674, NSE:DUCON), has set up a wholly owned subsidiary, Ducon Combustion Equipment Inc. (DCE), in New York, to sell diversified combustion and power products to global markets where demand...

New MoU signed to further agri cooperation Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh has identified areas such as agriculture machinery, training, investment, institutional linkages, precision farming, cattle breeding and fisheries for expanding cooperation with Italy. He has also...

Minister stresses on quality standards Prabhu addressing at the release of the Mid-Term Review of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20, in New Delhi on 5 Dec 2017. The Mid-Tem Review of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2015-2020 has increased Annual Incentives...

Lifestyle diseases to boost healthcare spending India’s healthcare market may see threefold rise as its size in value terms is likely to reach US$372 billion by 2022, clocking a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22 per cent, according to...