News China green-lights world’s biggest dam in Tibet China gave the go-ahead to build what would be the world’s biggest hydropower dam in Tibet on 25 December, sparking concerns in India. First proposed in 2020, the dam on…
Companies Japanese JV enters Indian PPP road sector for first time A Japanese joint venture is making moves to enter India’s growing public-private partnership (PPP) road sector, a first for Japan’s infrastructure industry. JFE Engineering Corporation and Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment…
News Spanish and Swiss companies set to help India upgrade its rail network 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…
News Bangladesh road tunnel disappoints in tumultuous first year 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…
News Spain’s Ayesa lands two more Indian metro contracts 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…
News Land acquisition severely delays ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Expressway 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.…
News Rosatom makes six-reactor pitch during Modi visit 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,…
News Leighton Asia to fit out Hyderabad data centre 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…
News Egis marks trio of Indian air terminals 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…
News Mace, Systra to transform Gujarat’s biggest railway station 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,…
News Bangladesh ends $1.5bn Chinese rail upgrade after nine years of talks 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…
News Ferrovial buys €740m stake in Indian toll road company 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…
News India’s L&T wins ‘significant’ Jakarta MRT extension job 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…
News India to spend $15bn creating a domestic chip industry 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.…
News India’s longest cable-stayed bridge opens to traffic India’s longest cable-stayed bridge was inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi yesterday.
News India to start $4.8bn Arunachal Frontier Highway 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.…
News Modi: India ‘to install solar panels on 10 million homes’ 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…
News SOM’s ‘terminal in a garden’ opens at Bengaluru’s international airport 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…