India’s government has announced it will investigate local media reports that three labourers drowned in Kolkata after inhaling toxic gas. The incident took place on 2 February, when Suman Sardar,…

India and France have agreed to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) together after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, The Indian Express reports. India’s foreign ministry…

Researchers at the University of East London (UEL) have built a school in India out of a new low-carbon building material made from the pith left after sugar cane is…

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…

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…

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.