Oracle, Maharashtra join hands for citizen services

September 2016

Oracle has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maharashtra government in San Francisco for the creation of a Center of Excellence, a resear...

Tags: Oracle, Memorandum of Understanding, Maharashtra government, Safra Catz, Business Line, cloud computing, Catz, Devendra Fadnavis, Smart Cities

Smart Cities turn 60!

September 2016

According to a recent report by the Smart Cities Council India, traditional cities with unauthorised colonies, slum clusters, poor transportation, in...

Tags: Smart Cities Council India, Smart City Mission, SPV, PMC, M Venkaiah Naidu, Golden Temple, Ujjain, Tirupati, NAREDCO, Parveen Jain, Guy Perry, Essel Infra And Utilities, Infrastructure, Safra Catz, Oracle Corporation

Amritsar tops the list of 27 new Smart Cities

September 2016

Amritsar has topped the list of 27 new Smart Cities announced by the Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu. Eight other cities of pilgrim an...

Tags: Amritsar, Smart Cities, M Venkaiah Naidu, Smart City Mission, Infrastructure, Area-Based Development and technology

India’s real estate and construction sector to generate 75 million jobs by 2022

September 2016

The real estate and construction sector in India is expected to be the third largest globally by 2030, contributing over 15 per cent to Indian GDP an...

Tags: Real Estate, Construction sector, GDP, KPMG, NAREDCO, AMRUT, HRIDAY, REITs, GST, Smart Cities, Housing for All, Solid Infrastructure Projects, FDI, Neeraj Bansal, Building

Our city is being developed on the principle of retrofitting.

September 2016

A Tier-II city in Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur is the third largest urban agglomerate in the state (as per the 2011 census), India´s 37th largest urban a...

Tags: Ved Prakash, Municipal Corporation Jabalpur, Smart Cities, Shriyal Sethumadhvan, Swachh Bharat Mission, Infrastructure, IPE Global, Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, AMRUT, Essel Infra

Antwerp Port to help develop AP ports

September 2016

Belgium´s Antwerp Port Authority, which operates the largest port in Europe after Rotterdam, has offered its expertise to explore trade through ports...

Tags: Belgium Antwerp Port Authority, Port, Greenfield port, Smart Cities, Petroleum clusters, Inland waterways

Stalwarts of the architecture and builder fraternity felicitated at the 11th CW Architect And Builder Awards 2016 – CWAB 2.0

August 2016

The most glamorous and unique awards in the building and design world – CONSTRUCTION WORLD ARCHITECT AND BUILDER (CWAB) AWARDS recently unveiled its ...

Tags: CWAB AWARDS, Architects, Builders, India Top Builders, Top Architects, Pratap Padode, Smart Cities Council India, Dr Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment, ECBC, Brigade Group, Hiranandani Developers, K Raheja Corp, Kalpataru Ltd, Mahindra Lifespace Developers

India’s Tier-II and -III cities to emerge as alternate urban economic centres

August 2016

The demand for real estate, particularly residential properties, and to a certain extent, industrial corridor in smaller cities and non-metros is exp...

Tags: Real estate, AMRUT, Tier-II, Tier-III cities, Smart cities, Urban development, Housing, Transformation, Water Energy, CREDAI, Getamber Anand, Anshul Jain, Cushman & Wakefield