Projects

Thirty-four stuck projects are expected to restart following the Indian government’s go-ahead given to the National Highway Authority to extend concessionary support to road developers for implementation delays, noted the Singapore-based banking group, DBS. In a similar vein, railway infrastructure...

California-based Netafim, the global leader in drip irrigation, has collaborated with researchers at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University to study the viability of utilizing drip irrigation to mass-produce rice crops. The multi-year research study, conducted in conjunction with Dr. Eli Vered,...

California-based Masimo, global leader in innovative noninvasive monitoring technologies, said Cloudnine Hospital Group in Bangalore as upgraded system-wide to Masimo SET® pulse oximetry. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect and it is estimated that nearly one...

Shell has had a roller-coaster ride in India. Having started in the decade of 1920s as Burmah Shell, it has been a journey of many avatars, going through high-powered gear shifting, including nationalization and then moving back to commercially-driven business...

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. will use its High Value Engineering Centre in India to provide engineering service to Alcoa of Australia’s baseload sustaining capital projects at the Kwinana and Pinjarra alumina refineries in Western Australia. Under the multi-year contract, Jacobs is...

GE will invest US$200 million to develop and supply Indian Railways with 1,000 diesel locomotives, having recently received a Letter of Award from the Ministry of Railways. The locomotive supply and maintenance contract, worth approximately $2.6 billion over 11 years,...

India is aggressively revamping its power sector program to improve transmission and tackle inefficiencies in distribution but there is an urgent need to reach out to consumers, particularly agrarian in a more strategic way. "India is already beginning to do...

Manchester’s Kalibrate, the experts in global fuel and convenience retail, said it is helping Indian fuel retailers succeed in a time of market uncertainty. Price deregulation has opened the market to new competitive dynamics throughout the country. Now fuel retailers...

Swedish company Alfa Laval, a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply a complete process line for a vegetable protein extraction plant in India. The order, booked in the Food...

Leading outsourcing and managed service provider, Patra Corporation has announced its inclusion in the San Francisco Business Times' list of fastest-growing private companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, saying its rating was supported by India-based operations. A new operations...