Work on the much-delayed dedicated railway freight corridor is expected to begin with contracts worth Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) to be awarded before the end of the current financial year.
The turnaround has been possible due to availability of domestic gas on priority.
With Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee's landslide victory in West Bengal, the Union railways ministry is set to have a new minister soon and a revamped board.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has started talks on synergising operations with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, which offers telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai.
RGPPL has signed a power purchase agreement with the government of Daman and Diu for selling about 98 Mw of power from July.
Scheme likely to come into force by June or July this year; both PSUs have been losing revenues and market share.
Department of telecommunications has set up a committee to look into the issue of escalating cost for the project.
The vacation of additional 2G and 3G spectrum may generate additional revenue of about Rs 80,000 crore (Rs 800 billion) on the basis of prices according to spectrum auctioned last year, DoT said in a note for the empowered group of ministers.
Firms to pay Rs 24,700 cr if spectrum formula is accepted.
A decision on the merger will take some time as there are procedural problems with MTNL being a listed entity and BSNL non-listed.
Started in 1857, Alstom is one of the grand old companies of Europe.
It is now looking at a solution from the Unique Identification Authority of India for ensuring accurate identification of the beneficiaries of its low-cost services.
Fund balances for the current financial year have already been revised downwards by the ministry from the budgeted Rs 5,062 crore to Rs 3,100 crore.
This has happened despite an increase in peak demand of power.
BSNL has been among the top three net losers in terms of subscribers. MTNL, which operates in only the Delhi and Mumbai circles, has lost, too.
The two PSUs have been losing revenues as well as market share.
The huge reduction in the government's support for Bhavini has brought down the overall budgetary allocation for nuclear power schemes by 20 per cent.
A memorandum of understanding between the defence and telecom ministries for vacation of spectrum was signed two years ago.
The wait for mobile subscribers to get relief from telemarketing calls has got longer. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended the deadline for the third time for implementation of guidelines to curb telemarketing calls, to April 1.
The proposal gains significance because the merger plan was given a quiet burial under former telecom minister A Raja.
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