Infrastructure Related

News: The government has assigned number of cities each state/union territory can nominate under the 100 Smart Cities project as well as those to be developed under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation scheme (AMRUT). UP leads the pack as it has been given the opportunity to nominate ...

News: The Indian Government has said that it has asked for the information to check the accuracy of telecom operators’ claim that the scarcity of mobile towers has led to frequent call drops. The Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked tower operators to share details of the number of ...

News:  Japan’s SoftBank Corp, together with Bharti Enterprises and Taiwan’s Foxconn, will invest about $20 billion in solar projects in India, in one of the biggest investment pledges to date in the country’s renewable energy sector. SoftBank will hold majority control in the joint venture, SBG Cleantech Ltd, while Bharti Enterprises Ltd and ...

News: Road transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari has given permission for Green Highways Policy, which makes agencies mandatory in planting trees on highways and maintain them too. Road ministry official put forward the history of road building by rulers, who preferred planting fruit and shade bearing trees for the ...

News: In what is being seen as a furtherance to India’s ‘Act East’ policy and more specifically, a strategically operational deployment in the crucial South China Sea, Indian Navy warships have  reached Malaysia. The Navy’s Eastern Fleet includes INS Ranvir, a guided missile destroyer, INS Satpura, the indigenously built guided missile stealth ...

News: Battling opposition charge of pursuing “anti-poor” policies, the NDA government has decided to increase the number of workdays under MGNEGRA from 100 days to 150 days in drought-hit areas. A policy decision has been taken that if a family requires 150 days of work under MNREGA in a drought affected ...

News: About 4,400 hectares of land along the Ganga has been freed from encroachment in Uttar Pradesh and the Centre has started planting saplings on it as part of a special afforestation drive. Land mafia allegedly had encroached upon the flood plains by forging land records and got the plots transferred in ...

News: The transport ministers of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) have signed a motor vehicles agreement in a bid to boost trade and sub-regional connectivity among the four nations. The BBIN pact will also set the stage for a new connectivity paradigm in India’s north-east, which is looking for ...

News: NHIDCL, a government company mandated to fast-track road projects in tough terrain, including border areas, is set to award projects worth Rs 1.3 lakh crore over the next five years. The National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) will also be laying out 1,500 km of highways in various ...

News: According to a consulting and research firm, Bridge to India, India could become one of the largest solar markets in the world in the next three years. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, set a target of 100 GW of solar generation capacity by 2022, a nearly 33-fold increase from the ...