Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India, talks about the CouncilĂ´s capacity building programmes and issues ranging from technology to finance.
Category: ECONOMY & POLICY
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Business is part of the co-operation but this is not the only target
Yves PERRIN, Consul General of France in Mumbai says French companies are yet to tap IndiaĂ´s animal and diary products sector.
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Altitudinal risk
Braving several take-off woes, the aviation industry seems to have found relatively firm grounding. Privatisation has gripped the industry in a big way. Nevertheless, certain ground realities need to be effectively handled for a safer landing.
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India calling
In a move that could help consolidation, the government, just this September, approved rules for spectrum trading, allowing companies to buy and sell spectrum among themselves.
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Looking Ahead
The twelfth anniversary celebrations at Infrastructure Today coincide with a time of great optimism in the Indian economy, and in the infrastructure domain, in particular. The general mood in the country is a ringing endorsement for Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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COAI reiterates demand for review of pricing of CDMA airwaves
GSM industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has escalated a war of letters by writing to the Telecom minister, reiterating its demand for a review of pricing of CDMA airwaves and reducing the 10 MHz cap on such spectrum, asserting that failure to do so would lead to violation of auction rules.
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TRAI to test operator networks in Delhi, Mumbai
To check call drop problem, regulator TRAI has started testing of mobile networks in Delhi and Mumbai to see if operators have taken measures to improve quality of services.
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Idea to launch 4G in 10 circles by June
IndiaĂ´s third-largest mobile phone operator, Idea Cellular, said it was setting up infrastructure to launch 4G services in 10 circles by June 2016 and said it would soon catch up with operators which had launched the service.
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WB plans to use 1 lakh acre Govt land for industry
In a bid to dispel impression that West Bengal does not have enough land for industry, the state government has said it has one lakh acres of land with different departments which could be used. There had been apprehension in the industry on availability of large tracks of land in the state as the state government has moved out of forced acquisition of land.
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Suresh Prabhu launches Indian Railway knowledge portal
Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has launched Indian Railway Knowledge Portal, www.kportal.indianrailways.gov.in. This portal is an aggregation of information, with links to resources of the Indian Railways, for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge, innovations and best practices.