India has signed memorandums of understanding with the governments of Spain and Switzerland aimed at increasing the number of foreign companies working on its rail modernisation projects. Indian Railways signed…

A year after opening, Bangladesh’s $1.6bn tolled road tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong has failed to attract the volume of traffic that was projected, BDNews24 reports. The 3.4km-long…

Spanish technology and engineering consultant Ayesa has won a contract to provide detailed design for the mechanical and electrical (M&E) systems for new metros being built in the Indian cities…

One of India’s most ambitious road projects, the 1,386km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, is facing serious delays owing to land acquisition issues in the state of Gujarat, The Times of India reports.…

Russia’s state-owned nuclear engineer Rosatom has taken advantage of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Moscow to propose building six reactors in India, Newsweek reports. While in Moscow,…

A joint venture of Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia and Indian company Sterling and Wilson has been selected to fit out a data centre in Hyderabad, India, by a multinational technology…

French infrastructure company Egis is celebrating the inauguration of terminal buildings at three Indian airports: Trichy, Pune, and Lucknow. It provided design and project management consultancy on the projects. Indian…

India’s Rail Land Development Authority has appointed a joint venture of Mace and Systra to transform the biggest railway station in the state of Gujarat, in Ahmedabad City. Every day,…

Bangladesh Railway (BR) has cancelled a rail upgrade scheme in the northeast of the country after talks with a Chinese contractor that dragged on for nine years, local newspaper The…

Spanish contractor Ferrovial has bought a 24% stake in Indian road builder IRB Infrastructure Trust for €740m. IRB owns 12 toll road concessions in India, covering an estimated 2,000km, with…

L&T Construction has won a rail systems contract worth at least $120.7m to fit out the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Phase 2A extension project through its Japanese partner, Sojitz…

India’s cabinet has given the green light for three semiconductor plants together worth $15.2bn. Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the projects yesterday and ordered construction to start within 100 days.…

India’s longest cable-stayed bridge was inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi yesterday.

The government of India has announced plans to invest $723m in the first 11 sections of a strategic road in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in the country’s far northeast.…

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has announced plans to install solar panels on 10 million homes in the country. Writing on X, Modi said: “The people of India should have…

A 255,000 sq m airport terminal designed by Chicago architect SOM has opened at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, increase its capacity by 25 million passengers. Terminal 2 contains a…

Israel launched a construction recruitment drive in India this week seeking 10,000 workers as its war in Gaza makes Israeli reservists and Palestinians unavailable for building work. Thousands of young…

India has paved a kilometre of highway with a bitumen mix that uses processed steel slag as the aggregate instead of gravel. The Ministry of Science and Technology said steel…