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…
News Israel seeks thousands of Indian builders as war saps workforce 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…
News India builds another steel-slag road 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…
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…