News: The ‘Make in India’ initiative is giving a new lease of life to some relatively-unknown varieties of indigenous fabrics. Fabrics like Ikkats and Uppada silk are being adopted and revived. Mumbai-based fashion designer Anita Dongre has made an initiative which takes craftsmanship to the cities from the rural areas so that unemployed ...

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: CMIE has reported a 8.4% rise in projects under implementation in the quarter ended June 30, the fastest since the September 2012 quarter. Private sector projects under implementation have risen by 0.8% in the June quarter. Since March 2014, projects worth about 2% of GDP have been unstalled. Progressing steadily, they ...