New housing launches up by 50 per cent in Q2 2018 affordable housing keeps the momentum going  

September 2018

Unsold inventory down 2 per cent from 7.11 lakh units in Q1 2018 to 7.0 lakh units in Q2 2018. Unsold inventory declined 10 per cent from 7.7 lakh un...

Tags: Affordable housing, RERA, GST, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, National Capital Region, Kolkata developers, PMAY, Infrastructure, Housing for All by 2022, Anarock Property Consultants, Anuj Puri

Lifting up Expectations

July 2018

Gone are the days of slowdown and stagnation for mobile cranes market. Many equipment were seen idle with projects not taking off as expected. ...

Tags: Equipment, Mobile cranes, Heavy-duty mobile cranes, Infrastructure, Ajay Mandahr, PCC, Escorts Construction Equipment, Anil Bhatia, TIL, Satin Sachdeva, CERA, Mandahr, Infrastructure, RRTS, National Capital Region Transport Corporation

NMRDA to implement affordable housing scheme in green belt too

July 2018

Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has decided to implement this scheme in green belt ...

Tags: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, PMAY, Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority, NMRDA, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, MHADA

Velankani and STMicroelectronics collaborate on smart meters for ‘Make in India’ programme

June 2018

Velankani Electronics (VEPL), an electronics manufacturing enterprise that focuses on the design and manufacture of products that qualify under the I...

Tags: Velankani Electronics, Make in India, STMicroelectronics, Velankani Prysm smart meters, STCOMET smart-meter, G3-PLC smart meters, Francesco Muggeri, Kiron Shah, Allan Lagasca, APAC Region

Haryana, Assam to be new warehousing hubs

May 2018

Warehousing cost for consumer durables is set to halve, and would fall by 25-30 per cent for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) after the implementati...

Tags: FMCG, GST, National Capital Region, Prasad Koparkar, CRISIL Research

SPR to fuel commercial real estate of NCR

April 2018

The rapid urbanisation in the National Capital region (NCR) is increasing day by day. This is amplifying the traffic crisis in the region. In order t...

Tags: National Capital region, IFFCO Chowk, Good Earth City Centre, Cosmopolitan, Urbana, Huda City Centre, Elan Group

India’s largest plasterboard plant inaugurated by Saint-Gobain

February 2018

Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman and CEO of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, inaugurated India’s largest plasterboard manufacturing plant recently. ...

Tags: Anand Mahajan, General Delegate, Saint-Gobain Group in India, Venkat Subramanian, Regional CEO Construction Products India & Managing Director, Gyproc India

Arihant enters affordable housing

February 2018

Arihant Superstructure reportedly plans to invest Rs 4,000 crore in the next seven years to develop affordable housing in Mumbai and Jodhpur. As per ...

Tags: Arihant Superstructure, Affordable housing, MMR region