Bangalore, India’s IT capital, is the best city for bachelors, while Ahmedabad in Gujarat was ranked at the bottom, according to a ‘liveability’ survey conducted among residents of housing societies and gated communities by MyGate app. In fact, Bangalore topped in six out of the ten parameters on which the app users were asked to […]
Days after Larsen & Toubro reported receiving an order to revamp Pune’s municipal water supply network, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd too said it won a Rs. 375 Cr contract from Pune Municipal Corporation for revamping the distribution system. “The contract involves ‘Study, Survey, Investigation, Assessment, Design validation and Revamping of entire Water Supply System including […]
Pune Municipal Corporation has awarded a Rs 1,680 cr contract to construction major Larsen & Toubro to revamp the city’s water supply system. The plan is to “transform the prevailing intermittent water supply into 24X7 pressurized water supply and to implement 100% smart metering covering every household of Pune City over the next 5 years,” […]
US search giant Google has expanded its public wifi hotspot venture outside railway stations for the first time. The company said it took the first such move in Pune, setting up 150 wifi hotspots for people to access. The hotspots have been operational in many of India’s big railway stations for nearly three years, including […]
Infrastructure company Hindustan Construction Company said it got another contract, worth Rs 484 cr, from Pune Metro for the construction of 8 stations on the east-west line. The contract comes two months after it reported a contract win for 9 stations in Line I. The contract has been won in consortium with the Dubai-based AL […]
Pune has become the latest Indian city to join the Metro bandwagon, with the contract for the 32-km first phase awarded to Hindustan Construction Company and the Dubai-based AL FARAA construction group. Construction of the first phase will have to be completed in 110 weeks (a little over 2 years). It will have nine elevated […]
DLF Ltd said it had not sold the 2nd phase of its Pune IT Park to private equity firm Blackstone. DLF was responding to a query raised by the National Stock Exchange of India after the Hindu Business Line carried an item titled ‘Has DLF sold Pune IT Park 2nd Phase to Blackstone’. However, said […]
