Japan has offered financial support besides technology for India’s ambitious rail project, estimated to cost about Rs 90,000 crore at an interest rate of less than one per cent. This 505 km project will link Mumbai with Ahmedabad. Japan’s decision to give virtually free finance for Modi’s pet programme is ...

Bangalore-based real estate developer Embassy Group is planning a 200MW solar PV plant in the Indian state of Karnataka. Embassy plans to further scale its power business and build 1GW of renewable energy projects across India over the next few years, said Anshul Singhal, CEO of Embassy Energy. According to the ...

India and France have firmed up an understanding on the offsets segment under which the French have agreed to invest 50 per cent of the deal’s worth in related sectors. French aircraft manufacturer Dassault had already reached out to Indian companies in the defence and security industry for possible Make ...

INS Sahyadri is an indigenously built warship of the Shivalik Class. It is inducted into the Indian Navy on July 21, 2012, the multi-role stealth frigate, boasts of an array of weaponry in her arsenal. It has long range anti-ship missiles, medium and short range surface to air missiles augmented ...

Colombo and Singapore ports handle most of the container movement as Indian ports cannot handle larger vessels. Around 2 million TEUs are trans-shipped from India to ports such as Colombo, Singapore, Salalah in Oman, Jebel Ali in Dubai and Malaysian ports. Colombo and Singapore together account for around 66% of ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for Amravati, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh. Pitched as a world-class riverfront capital city, Amaravati will be an energy-efficient and green city with concentration on industrial hubs. Amaravati will be a benchmark for the development of new cities and implementation ...

Lockheed Martin is the world’s biggest military systems’ giant, and the TASL project is now part of its own very impressive portfolio. Lockheed is now in command and control of all of Sikorsky’s famed flying machines as only recently, it acquired the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation from United Technologies Corporation (UTC). ...

Defence personnel can now collect i-tickets from any counter of computerised passenger reservation system (PRS) unlike before when i-tickets could only be collected at the journey originating station. The i-ticket now can be collected from any PRS counter by the defence personnel on showing one of the ten prescribed proofs ...

Russia is an important partner for India in peaceful uses of nuclear energy. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, chairing the 21st India-Russia Inter-Governmental Consultations, looked at ways to enhance the mutual direct investment to $15 billion by 2025. India and Russia today discussed ...

Free electricity to farmers is a subsidized free electricity scheme provided by the government of Andhra Pradesh, it is the dream concept of Late Chief Minister Dr. Y.S. Raja sekhara Reddy.  It provides 7 hours of power to the fields in a day. It has spent about 6000 crores in 2013. Aim The ...