The Supreme Court has ruled that no Bharat Stage-IV (BS-IV) vehicle will be sold across the country with effect from April 1, 2020. In 2016, the centre had announced that India would skip BS-V norms […]
ONGC is in the process of drawing up a perspective plan to integrate the recently acquired Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and the OPaL petrochemical plant at Dahej, with its main oil and gas exploration […]
The government has inaugurated a modernised cruise terminal facility at West Quay-IV at Chennai port. The cruise terminal is spread over an area of 2,880 square metres, with 2,040 square metres on the first floor, […]
Hindustan Infralog Private Limited, a joint venture (JV) of DP World and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited, has secured a contract of Rs 5.67 billion ($78 million) for the development and operations of a […]
As of September 30, 2018, the Indian shipping industry had a fleet of 1,393 vessels of 12.75 million gross tonnage (GT) and 19.29 million deadweight tonnage (DWT). Of the total vessels, 938 were coastal vessels […]
An MoU has been signed between India and Myanmar for the appointment of a private port operator for operations and maintenance (O&M) of Sittwe port, the Paletwa inland water terminal and associated facilities. The port […]
The governments of India and Bangladesh have agreed to consider the inclusion of the Rupnarayan river (National Waterway [NW]-86) from Geonkhali to Kolaghat in the Indo-Bangladesh protocol route. The two governments have also agreed to […]
The governments of India and Bangladesh have finalised a standard operating procedure for the movement of passengers and cruise vessels on the inland protocol route and coastal shipping routes. The river cruise services are likely […]
The Ministry of Shipping flagged off the first intra-country container vessel carrying PepsiCo’s consignment through inland waterways on October 30, 2018. The Inland Waterways Authority of India’s (IWAI) vessel, MV RN Tagore, carried 16 containers […]
The IWAI has handed over the O&M of its two terminals in Kolkata to Summit Alliance Port East Gateway (India) Private Limited. The terminals are Garden Reach (GR) Jetty I and BISN, and GR Jetty […]
The Gujarat government has inaugurated the Gogha-Dahej roll-on, roll-off passenger (ro-pax) ferry service. The ro-pax service has a carrying capacity of 100 vehicles and 525 passengers. It has been implemented under the Sagarmala programme with […]
The Supreme Court has asked the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to review power purchase agreements (PPAs) of thermal power plants (TPPs) of Adani Power Limited, Tata Power Company Limited and Essar Power Limited in […]
The Ministry of Power (MoP) has announced a Rs 1 billion award for states that complete household electrification early under the Saubhagya scheme. Apart from the discoms, their employees too would collectively get an award […]
NTPC Limited has entered into a Rs 100 billion contract with Indian Railways (IR) for the transportation of coal from mines to all its power plants up to 2019-20. NTPC will pay the entire amount as […]
PTC India Limited has signed PPAs with four state distribution companies and has signed power supply agreements (PSAs) with seven independent power producers (IPPs) under the MoP’s pilot power procurement scheme. The PPAs have been […]
The Ministry of Coal has issued a tender for the allocation of coal mines to companies engaged in specific end-use sectors including iron and steel, cement, and captive power plants (CPPs). The successful allottees of […]
The Bihar government has completed 100 per cent electrification of all willing households in the state under the Saubhagya scheme, much ahead of the December 31, 2018 deadline. All 13.9 million households in rural as […]
Sterlite Power has commissioned Northern Region Strengthening Scheme 29, two months ahead of schedule. The scheme, with a project cost of Rs 30 billion, connects the northern grid to Jammu & Kashmir. The project is […]
Infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) were conceptualised three years ago and are the one of the fastest financial products to be brought to fruition. The product has had a great start. There have been three InvIT […]
Subhash Sethi, Chairman, SPML Infra Limited In India, almost one-third of the current population lives in cities and this will reach half the country’s population in just a few decades. With increasing economic activities, population […]
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