AAI wins ‘India Pride Award’ for infrastructure development

April 2017

The Airports Authority of India has won Dainik Bhaskar's ‘India Pride Awards—2016-17’ for ‘Excellence in Infrastructure Development’ in the category ...

Tags: Airports Authority of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Excellence in Infrastructure Development, Guruprasad Mohapatra, Manoj Sinha, Air passengers, Building infrastructure, India Pride Award

Air India to post operating profit of Rs 300 crore this financial year

April 2017

Air India is projected to post an operating profit of Rs 300 crore in the current fiscal and there is no plan to privatise the airline, the governmen...

Tags: Jayant Sinha, Rajya Sabha, Civil Aviation, Financial year, Air India

Essar Steel India’s flat steel production up 47percent in FY2016-17

April 2017

Essar Steel India Limited (EStIL) has substantially improved its performance for the year ended March 31, 2017. The total flat steel production regis...

Tags: Essar Steel India Limited, Substantially, Dilip Oommen, Ministry of Steel, Government of India, Pellet production

India to invest $375 billion in infrastructure upgrading

April 2017

Expected to become the third largest in the world by 2030, currently, India’s construction market is contributing to more than 8 per cent of the coun...

Tags: GDP, Railways, Airports, Roads, IIA, Council of Architecture, FICCI, Alfredo Baracchini, Steel-studio Mech studio, Big 5 Construct India 2016, BAI, Annual Conference, Building materials, Construction technology, Plant

Renewable Purchase Obligation Compliance needs to improve fast for India to meet its solar installation targets

April 2017

Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) is the single most important policy driving renewable energy installations in India towards achieving the aggress...

Tags: Renewable Purchase Obligation, Renewable energy, MNRE, REC, RPO, DISCOM, JNNSM, CERC, DERC, SERC, Mercom India Solar Project Tracker, Raj Prabhu, Mercom Capital Group

ABB’s technology ventilates Asia’s longest road tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir

April 2017

The new 10.8 kilometre Chenani-Nashri tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir, the longest highway tunnel in Asia, will feature a state-of-the-art ABB ventilation ...

Tags: ABB ventilation system, IL and FS Transportation Networks Ltd, Sanjeev Sharma, ABB India, Gotthard Base Tunnel, ABB technology, Burj Khalifa, VSD, NHAI, Subir Pal, Robotics and Motion, London Tower Bridge

Digitalising the CE Industry

April 2017

While technology has been disrupting the way most of the businesses operate, the construction and mining sector has been quietly going on with its tr...

Tags: Technology, Construction, Mining, iQuippo, Digital India, DEBNIL CHAKRAVARTY

JCB showcases new range of equipment at ConMac 2017

April 2017

JCB India showcased its new range of product line up at ConMac 2017. This included the recently introduced products which focus on infrastructure dev...

Tags: JCB India, Vipin Sondhi, ConMac 2017, 220LC Xtra, telehandler