Secunderabad becomes India’s first ‘green’ railway station

October 2017

Secunderabad’s railway station was recently awarded a silver rating certification by the Indian Green Building Council-Confederation of Industry (IGB...

Tags: IGBC, Railway station, Green Railway Stations Rating System, Energy efficiency, Water efficiency, Photovoltaic cells, LED lighting, Central waste collection system, Rainwater harvesting systems

IFAT India 2017 addresses the latest environmental issues in its fifth edition

October 2017

Scarce water resources, rapid industrialisation, extensive agriculture and enormous waste volumes pose a great challenge to the country. IFAT India 2...

Tags: Scarce water resources, Rapid industrialisation, Bombay Convention, Exhibition Centre, L&T, Thermax, Ion Exchange, Ramky, Aqseptance Group, Endress+Hauser, Excel, Kirloskar Brothers, Kishor Pumps, Tata Projects, Wilo

Schwing Stetter showcases its range of sludge and muck pumps at IFAT Expo 2017

October 2017

Schwing Stetter India was a part of IFAT Expo 2017, a trade fair for water, sewage, reuse and recycling, where the company launched its new range of ...

Tags: Schwing Stetter India, IFAT Expo 2017, Pumps, Turnkey solutions, KSP, Waste water treatment plants, Waste recycling, Construction industry, Anand Sundaresan, Schwing Stetter India, VG Sakthikumar, Sludge transportation, Wastewater treatment plant, High volume sludge pumps, Muck pumps

SPML Infra plans to expand pan-India

October 2017

Infrastructure development company SPML Infra has announced the shifting of their headquarters from Delhi to Kolkata, keeping in mind their corporate...

Tags: SPML Infra, World’s Top 40 Private Water Operators, NER, Power System Improvement Scheme, SAUNI, Pokhran Water Supply Project, Autotransformers, Transmission, EBITDA

Single-wall carbon nanotubes: Five times lighter but 100 times stronger than steel

October 2017

Increasing customer demand for conductive floors has spurred Indian manufacturers to seek highly innovative technologies to upgrade conventional elec...

Tags: ESD, Flooring systems, SWCNT, Ravi Dabral, Carbon fibres, Technology, TUBALL, Neocrete Technologies, Construction chemicals, Epoxy flooring, Waterproofing systems, GFRP pipes, Polyester gel coats, BMC, SMC

Govt saved Rs 3 lakh crore loans to road sector turning into NPAs: Gadkari

September 2017

The NDA government has managed to save Rs 3 lakh crore worth bank loans to the road sector turning into NPAs, according to the minister of road trans...

Tags: Nitin Gadkari, NDA government, IACC, NHAI, Infrastructure, Ports, Inland Water Ways, Logistics, Equipment, Uber type, Sagarmala project

GDP to grow at 7 per cent in fiscal 2018 – CRISIL

September 2017

CRISIL has trimmed its fiscal 2018 growth forecast for India by 40 basis points to 7 per cent from 7.4 per cent earlier, after data for the first qua...

Tags: CRISIL, GDP growth, GST, GDP growth, PMI, Demonetisation, Electricity, Gas, Water supply, Construction

Task Force to be set up for speedy implementation of various projects

September 2017

Nitin Gadkari, who has taken over as Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, has reportedly said that he will s...

Tags: Nitin Gadkari, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Urban Development, Sanitation Sushri Uma Bharti, Namami Gange programme