News India’s first high-speed railway on track after land acquisition The body in charge of India’s first high-speed railway said Monday it had bought all the 1,400ha of land it needed for the project, and had awarded all civil engineering…
News Adani gets $1.36bn to build world’s biggest solar, wind park Indian conglomerate Adani has secured a loan of $1.36bn from a consortium of banks to build the world’s largest solar and wind park at Khavda in the western state of…
News India’s Karnataka to get brand new port Indian port builder JSW Infrastructure has signed an agreement with the government of Karnataka state in southwest India to build a $480m deepwater port. JSW will develop Keni Port as…
News Mumbai builders ordered to erect 35ft-high metal walls around all sites In a bid to improve Mumbai’s dust-choked air, its city council has passed legislation requiring contractors to install 35ft-high metal enclosures around any site larger than an acre, and to…
News India’s first transshipment port opens in Kerala Work has finished on India’s first transshipment container port, the $925m Vizhinjam International Seaport in the southwestern state of Kerala. The deepwater port was built in the Keralan capital Thiruvananthapuram…
News Contractor picked to build Mongolia’s first refinery Indian contractor Megha Engineering and Infrastructure (MEIL) has been awarded a $648m contract to build Mongolia’s first greenfield oil refinery. The agreement was signed in Ulaanbaatar on Friday. The Hyderabad-based…
News Cimic to build eight towers in Mumbai Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia has won a US$122m (A$190m) contract from local developer Elan Group to build a 728-unit residential project, “The Presidential”, in the northern Indian city of Gurgaon.…
News 26 killed as railway bridge collapses in India 26 workers have been killed and two have been injured following the collapse of an under construction railway bridge in India’s north eastern Mizoram state. Reuters reports that between 28…
News India proclaims world’s first printed post office Indian contracting giant L&T Construction has printed a post office in Bengaluru, India. The 95-sq-m, single-storey building took 43 days to print, and cost $31,200. It is India’s and the…
News India to start work “soon” on world’s largest museum India is planning to build the world’s largest museum in the centre of New Delhi. The Yuge Yugeen Bharat will collect artefacts covering 5,000 years of Indian history in a…
News L&T wins large metro project in Kolkata Indian construction giant Larson & Toubro (L&T) has won a contract to design and build part of the new Line 3 in Kolkata’s metro system. Also called the Purple Line,…
News 20 killed following collapse in Maharashtra Twenty construction workers have been killed and three injured by the collapse of girder installing machine at a road building project in the west Indian state of Maharashtra. The collapse…
News Indian diamond trading complex to be world’s biggest office building A diamond trading complex in the Gujarati city of Surat is about to overtake the Pentagon as the world’s largest office complex, The Indian Express reports. Surat is the main…
News Adjaye-designed extension to create India’s largest art gallery Sir David Adjaye and local architect S Ghosh & Associates have unveiled their extension to the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), which will make it the largest art and…
News Larsen & Toubro wins contracts in Saudi Arabia and India Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won engineering, procurement and construction contracts worth between $300m and $600m in India and Saudi Arabia through its power transmission and distribution subsidiary.…
News Secrets of the universe: India approves $320m gravitational wave detector The government of India has approved the construction of a $320m observatory to detect gravitational waves from space to help answer fundamental questions about the universe, the SciTechDaily website reports.…
News India launches $600m “Vibrant Villages” programme along Chinese border The government of India has launched its $600m “Vibrant Villages” programme to develop homes and roads in Himalayan states, India Express reports. This scheme, which was announced in the 2022…
News India clears way for its biggest-ever hydroelectric scheme India has approved plans to build the country’s biggest hydropower project in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, the Times of India reports. The $3.9bn scheme will be built on the…