Infrastructure Related

News: Celltick, a global leader in home screen marketing is to launch ‘BSNL BUZZ’, a next generation Cell Broadcast Service for BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) Mobile. With this partnership, Celltick provides a fully managed high-value interactive service on the home screen for BSNL’s 77.2 million mobile subscribers through its ...

News: Power Grid Corporation of India has approved Rs 2,247.37 crore investment plan for the third part of the inter-state electricity transmission project. PGCI has approved investment for Green Energy Corridors: Inter-State Transmission Scheme-Part A and B at an estimated cost of Rs 1,479.30 crore and Rs 3,705.61 crore, respectively. ...

News: The Adani group signed a MoU with the Tamil Nadu government for setting up five solar power plants, with a total capacity of 648-Mw, at a cost of Rs 4,536 crore in Ramanathapuram district, where around 70 per cent of the investment in the project would be met through internal accruals, the balance ...

News: Steps have been taken to overhaul the highways sector, including a Rs. 4,000-crore Metrino pilot project to decongest Delhi. Under the project, fully automatic and driverless small vehicles known as pods will travel suspended under an overhead network. The ring road work from Manesar to Eastern pass, worth Rs. 6,000-crore, will ...

News: For transforming India’s 90,000 kms of national highways into green corridors, the government will soon implement an ambitious policy under which one per cent of the road construction cost will go towards planting trees, by creating a brigade of 1,000 contractors for this task. Nitin Gadkari said if the cost of road ...

News: Mobile phone users will be able to retain their numbers when they relocate to any part of the country even if they change operators as full mobile number portability (MNP) comes into effect. MNP has been available within circles since 2011, this is the first time it will be ...

News: The central government wants to build capacity of local contractors, engineers and other stakeholders for participation in construction of highways and infrastructure in the North-East. The involvement of local stakeholders would result in inclusive development of the region through creation of jobs and opening up of avenues. The Centre has decided to award contractors ...

News: Telecom Minister said, “A committee on internet governance was formed under Chairmanship of Finance Minister and has decided India should support a multi-stakeholder approach in matter of Internet governance”. The members of the committee include Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Prasad. The committee thinks that government should ...

News:  In pursuit of India’s ‘Look East’ and ‘Act East’ policy, the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet ships under the command of Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEF), are on a two month long operational deployment to South East Asia and Southern Indian Ocean. As ...

News: The road transport ministry is pushing for five-fold increase in fine for first-time drunk driving while repeat offence will attract stiffer penalty besides imprisonment ranging from six months to one year and impounding of the vehicle for one year. The bill has specified the fine and penalties for those carrying ...