The Pinarayi Vijayan government of Kerala has decided to push ahead with the K-Rail semi-high-speed rail project despite opposition from the Congress-led United Democratic Front and some non-governmental organizations. The Rs 64,000 cr project is one of the most ambitious taken by any Kerala state government in recent years, and aims to reduce the north-south […]
In what is probably the company’s most fanciful investment to date, India’s largest private sector company Reliance Industries has taken a controlling stake in a US-based futuristic transportation company. skyTran Inc is developing a technology to transport people using pods that are kept in the air by a magnetic force from below. RIL, which was […]
India’s largest instrumentation cable maker Cords Cable Industries Ltd said it has won an approval that will qualify it to supply cables to Indian Railways and other railway projects such as metro rail and dedicated freight corridors. The company said it received an approval as a vendor for various projects for the Indian Railways from […]
Dilip Buildcon said it has emerged as the favored bidder to build a 5.3 km stretch of the upcoming metro rail system in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The development comes barely a month after DBL was declared the lowest bidder for the Bhopal Metro project in the state. The current bid is to build an elevated […]
Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, said it has signed an agreement to construct and maintain a metro station next to its main campus in Electronics City, Bangalore. The station, to be constructed at Konappana Agrahara, will be covered under the second phase of Bangalore Metro’s expansion plans and is expected to be operational by […]
