According to the target set by the Prime Minister, contracts for the Sonnagar-Dankuni section of the Dedicated Freight Corridor, elevated rail corridor in Mumbai and locomotive factories in Madhepura and Marhowra should be awarded this year.
The Rs 20,000-crore Mumbai Elevated Rail Corridor is in for an indefinite delay as it is being reworked, marking a setback to the ambitious rapid transport project.
Budget 2026 sticks to fiscal discipline, shuns populist measures despite five key state elections coming up, but ends up rattling stock markets with a higher transaction tax on derivatives trading.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the world has seen the power of India's indigenous weapons during Operation Sindoor, which is 'not over yet'.
A monorail train tilted during a test run at Wadala depot in Mumbai. No passengers were on board, and no injuries were reported. The incident occurred during signalling trials, and the train suffered some damage.
The planned metro rail corridor from Colaba in south Mumbai to the north western suburb of Bandra will be considered after the Indian Railways states its plan for the elevated rail corridor from Churchgate to Virar, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority Metropolitan commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad said. MMRDA will await the feasibility study being carried out by the Railways regarding the elevated corridor before deciding the next step for the metro line, he said.
Part-I of this three-part series dives into Delhi-NCR's SPR, Sohna, Dwarka Expressway, and Jewar Airport leading the charge.
A Monorail train in Mumbai halted due to a power failure amid heavy rains, stranding approximately 200 passengers. Rescue operations were conducted, and an inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
Transport projects worth Rs 60,000 crore are languishing due to red tape, while the city continues to struggle against bottlenecks created by many of them.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today set an investment target of Rs 1.15 lakh crore in PPP (public private partnership) projects across infrastructure sectors in rail, port and power in the next six months.
L&T IDPL, Gammon, IL&FS in race for Rs 21,147-cr Mumbai elevated rail corridor
Shiv Sena had last year boycotted the foundation laying of Babasaheb Ambedkar memorial by Modi saying Uddhav was not invited.
Amid protest over the proposed ambitious semi-highspeed SilverLine rail project, also known as K-Rail, the Kerala government on Saturday published the detailed project report that estimated the cost of project to be Rs 63,941 crore.
Most of the projects face hurdles such as delay in approvals and lack of coordination between state governments and the railways.
Despite public-private partnership projects announced in several rail budgets, the investment since 2000 has been merely Rs 3,000 crore.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday directed fast-tracking of major infrastructure projects in Maharashtra, including building of two new airports and expansion of one.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu is targeting the commissioning of the project by 2023-24
With land acquisition completed and infrastructure work streamlined, India's bullet train dreams are slowly, but finally, inching closer to reality.
The first consortium includes Afcons Infrastructure, IRCON International and JMC Projects, while the second group of companies include NCC, Tata Projects and J. Kumar Infra Projects.
The maiden Railway Budget of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government seems to have not gone down well with the suburban commuters as it does not offer anything new to them, commuters associations in Mumbai said.
The cement industry continues to present a puzzle to investors.
The metro rake which had only officials and engineers on board ran under the Hooghly from Kolkata to Howrah on the other side of the river.
The project will be in three stages and sources indicate that the funding will be for the first stage of 107 kilometre from Sarai Kale Khan to SNB Urban Complex.
The bullet train is expected to cover 508 km between Mumbai and Ahmedabad in about two hours.
Passengers will get the thrill of riding under the sea while travelling between Mumbai and Ahmedabad
Everything you wanted to know about the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train but didn't know who to ask.
CM Uddhav Thackeray stripped Ashwini Bhide off the post. Last week, Bhide was elevated to the post of principal secretary. However, during the reshuffle, she has not been given any other charge.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated and laid foundation stones of development projects worth more than Rs 38,000 crore in different sectors in Mumbai, giving a big push to infrastructure, urban travel and healthcare ahead of civic polls in the city in which the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction will seek to showcase these ventures to take on their political rivals.
The G20 declaration, which hit snags on the language to describe the Ukraine war, amounted to a 'coup' for host Prime Minister Narendra Modi though the final compromise statement reflected a stand far softer than those the United States and its Western allies have adopted on Russia, the world media said on Sunday.
Stating that recent agriculture reforms have opened new opportunities, the RBI Governor said the farm sector is emerging as a bright spot.
The government will provide necessary land at a nominal rate.
At Rs 140 crore per km, an elevated corridor will cost about the same as Delhi Metro's Rs 160 crore.
He accused the previous governments of being sluggish on implementing railway projects and said the work of ambitious eastern and western dedicated freight corridors expedited only in the last six-seven years.
He said his government's goal is to make Delhi a grand city equipped with all the facilities as expected of the capital of the country.
Hyderabad Metro has taken up a study to change the alignment of the rail track in order to avoid the Legislative Assembly building and Sultan Bazar stretch in Hyderabad, even as the realignment is expected to escalate the project cost by over Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said that the common people have always been the focus of all initiatives by the Indian Railways.
India should not miss the opportunity to develop high-speed railway.
If money allocations, investment commitments are a sign of better things to come, the state can be optimistic.
The minister plans to reinstate the Railways as the backbone of the economy
There's a 13 per cent increase over last year, in an effort to put its flagging revenues back on track.
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