Projects

NHAI studies cement pavement Source: NHAI. Cement pavement project to replace bituminous. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur for research project on Laboratory and Field investigations on Paneled Cement...

GST: Manufacturers assured Taxes on manufactured goods will be brought down under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from as high as 30% at present taxation regime, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has assured manufacturer. He said the bill had enough...

Scrap shredding plant Source: Mahindra. The group is setting up India's first scrap shredding plant in venture with MSTC. Mahindra Inter Trade Limited and MSTC Ltd are jointly setting up a 100,000 tonne a year auto-shredding plant, the first in the...

Bell Helicopter welcomes pro-market reforms Source: Bell Helicopter. Bell Helicopter welcomes pro-market reforms creating fresh opportunities in the Indian market which it has served for more than six decades. “We strongly believe in the Make in India initiative and a...

Power projects update NTPC's hydro project. Update on Nuclear Reactors built or being built with Foreign Collaboration according to information presented in parliament by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER) as per August 4, 2016....

Mega food parks along #Sagarmala The Ministry of Food Processing is implementing two mega food parks (MFP) in the Coastal Economic Zone (CEZ) at Kakinada and Southern Maharashtra to promote export and imports under the Sagarmala National Perspective Plan (SNPP)....

Six startups named Pitney Bowes, a global technology company that provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, has named six startups to the summer session of the Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program. The company also announced a new six-month program...

L&T alliances Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (L&T Infotech) has announced a strategic alliance with Pegasystems. With this partnership, L&T Infotech becomes a Pega Registered Business Partner, enabling it to provide Pega software expertise and implementation services to its clients....

Rural road allocation The government has raised rural road development budget to Rs19,000 Crore in 2015-16 from Rs9,000 Crore in 2012-13, assuring its ongoing support to the nation-wide Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) programme. Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh...

SJ-SMEC bids for projects A newly merged group of two Singapore-Australian consultancies will be bidding for a wide range of projects in India, its officials said. Singapore’s Surbana Jurong (SJ), owned by state-investment corporation Temasek, has merged with engineering and...