Construction of one kilometre of high speed railway track will cost Rs 100-140 crore.
The Shipping Ministry will award 30 port projects during the current financial year, which are likely to come up at an investment of about Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion).
The Congress failed to win even a single seat in the polls.
Lenders now use your phone data, utility bill payment records and other non-traditional parameters to determine if you are creditworthy.
On June 1, 2010, under Indian Ports Act, 1908, govt declared Port Blair as 13th major port in India
A task force, under the chairmanship of the secretary (tourism), with the secretary (shipping) as co-chairperson, has been constituted to promote cruise tourism in the country, reports Megha Manchanda.
'The condition in Bengal is such that if you chant Jai Shri Ram, you would be put behind bars
Launched on June 15, 2015, the government proposes to develop 100 smart cities under the mission.
Indian companies place orders worth $600 million for US crude, which is likely to increase by nearly $2 billion in the near future.
The govt is increasing the duty to 15 per cent from the existing 10 per cent.
The largest upward contribution to the change in current index came from food group which increased by 1.22 per cent, contributing 1.64 percentage points to the total change. At item level, rice, arhar dal, fish fresh, poultry (chicken), milk, chillies green, garlic, ginger, tomato, root and green vegetables, tea leaf, tea (readymade), cigarette, country liquor prices, electricity charges, medicine (allopathic), and repair charges, are responsible for the rise in index.
The feasibility study of Delhi-Chennai corridor is being done in cooperation with Chinese Railways.
Of the 80 new appointments, 51 women are becoming directors.
Govt to introduce an hovercraft on the Yamuna river.
The overall average till 5 pm was 84.24 per cent.
Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari known for promoting innovative ideas in transportation, created a stir some time back when he pitched for 100 per cent electric mobility by 2030. In an interview with Megha Manchanda & Jyoti Mukul, he talks about the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) and electric vehicles.
Mamata woos industry with boat ride to Gangasagar, Sundarbans
Participants will watch out for the Brexit poll outcome in the late morning trades tomorrow.
Sensex remained volatile through the day.
Colombo can handle more container traffic than all of India's ports put together. For a country with a long maritime tradition, this is a pathetic state of affairs, saya T N Ninan.
Bankers of HPL too have endorsed the idea and are pitching hard for the chairmanship of Chatterjee.
Nandigram today is a conglomeration of model villages fenced by its greenery.
The arbitration clause is present in almost 95 per cent of corporate agreements, according to tax and audit firm Ernst & Young.
BJP, AIADMK oppose the project while DMK and CPI(M) support the Sethusamudram shipping project across the Palk Strait. T E Narasimhan reports
The Centre will grant Rs 500 crore for each of the smart cities.
The state needs great numbers of new-generation entrepreneurs.
While it was no secret that Mamata was upset with Patha Chatterjee for a while as he has hardly been successful in bringing any big-ticket investment, there is a strong buzz that it was the controversy over the HPL bid that finally influenced her decision.
It epitomises a significant opportunity lost, just when the state was beginning to shed three decades of leftist inhibitions in favour of economic reform.
Banerjee has fulfilled two key electoral promises: Ridding Lalgarh of Naxals and bringing peace to Darjeeling
'Whether he will apologise or not is not a problem.' 'I want him to make an effort to create a new world, by learning from history.'
One needs to carefully tread the thin but solid line between the sublime & the ridiculous.
The 30-share Sensex closed up 34 points at 27,831 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 15 points at 8,356.
PM Modi on Friday pitched for a BJP govt in UP to promote politics of development but skipped any mention of the raging controversy surrounding Dalits.
West Bengal was the second-most industrialised state in terms of value added and first in terms of number of factories and employment even in the mid-1960s. With a severe and long process of deindustrialisation, it lost its primacy.
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By the end of 2020, India will lay 32,737 km across the length and breadth of the country. It needs to lay down and comply with strict safety standards especially since some of these pipes will go through areas of dense habitation, says Rashme Sehgal.
Tripura's popular chief minister shows up the failures of the elitist central leadership of India's Left, says Devesh Kapur
Power2SME, a one-stop shop for sourcing and buying raw materials for SMEs, is the only B2B firm in this space.
The public-private partnership model is a compulsion, says the minister.
It's clear why Nayachara is the place now being favoured by the West Bengal government. Besides being sparsely populated (700-odd according to the highest government estimates), this is a community that is not "supposed to be here" and, therefore, presumably easy to shift out.
