Infra takes big hit from lockdown, tendering down 48 pc in March
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Project tendering and awarding activity in the infrastructure sector has almost come to a grinding halt due to the nationwide...
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Policy moving forward post corona (Column: Behind Infra Lines)
The policy responses globally to the coronavirus pandemic-induced dire economic scenario has treaded the familiar path of infusion of money into the financial system. As...
The big bang RBI stimulus (Column: Behind Infra Lines)
The slew of announcements by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to lower the repo rate, reverse repo rate, cash reserve ratio and allowing financial...
Use 21-day lockdown to bolster health infra against Covid-19: Doctors
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Amid the increase in coronavirus cases across the country, doctors and other healthcare experts reckon that the 21-day lockdown is...
Rs 15k cr for healthcare infra to combat Covid-19: PM
Centre allocates 15k crore for healthcare infrastructure to combat coronavirus (Second Lead) New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced allocation...
Imran against lockdown, Nepal’s infra lack a concern for India
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) While there have been some concerns over India not going for aggressive testing of Covid-19, a larger concern in the...
GE Steam inks power infra deal with CPRI
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) GE Steam Power India on Tuesday announced $ 32 million deal for the supply of two 2500 MVA short circuit...
Retail real estate and brand building (Column: Behind Infra Lines)
A look at the numbers from the top two web retailers, Flipkart and Amazon, in India from last year’s 15-day festival period in October shows...
GAIL to invest over Rs 1 lakh cr on infra development
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) State-run GAIL will invest Rs 1.05 lakh crore in the next five years for expanding pipelines and city gas distribution...
Much to learn from Dmart (Column: Behind Infra Lines)
A look at the year-to-date rally in the shares of Dmart and the share price action over the last five years have interesting pointers for...
‘Sovereign funds may invest directly in infra projects’
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Sovereign wealth funds are likely to change their investment strategy for Indian infrastructure projects and are expected to use the...
GMR Infra to sell 49% in airports arm to Groupe ADP
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) GMR Infrastructure Ltd (GIL) has entered into a strategic partnership with France’s Groupe ADP to sell 49 per cent stake...
HCL to bring together Fonterra’s IT infra services under one umbrella
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Global technology company HCL Technologies (HCL) on Tuesday announced a new large contract with New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra to...
Creating sustainable business models (Column: Behind Infra Lines)
As we move ahead with the next phase of growth and dynamic changes in sectors across the spectrum from consumer-related businesses to infrastructure in India,...
’16 of 37 states aligned with DoT’s infra roll out rules’
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) Only 16 out of the 37 states/Union Territories in India have aligned with the RoW (Right of Way) Rules, 2016,...
Building credit institutions of tomorrow (Column: Behind Infra Lines)
Given India’s need for infrastructure expansion and the infrastructure financing gap, attention needs to turn from the overall macroeconomic view on sectors and funding towards...
Policy hurdles force Srei Infrastructure out of infra lending
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) In a major fallout of the liquidity crisis and regulatory obstructions, Srei Infrastructure has decided to exit the infrastructure finance...
Water, power, drainage infra being augmented in Srinagar
Srinagar, Feb 5 (IANS) In order to bridge shortfalls, infrastructure across all basic facilities including water, power, drainage and road networks are being augmented in...
Infra, rural India key beneficiaries of Budget (Opinion)
The Budget for 2020-2021 was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday. It was an extremely long budget and took about 150 minutes to...
Sabka Vishwas & the need for more of the same (Column: Behind Infra Lines)
As debates rage on the nature of stimulus most appropriate for the Indian economy and on whether increased government expenditure or a reduction in taxes...