Nick Haekkerup, Minister for Trade and Economic Affairs, Denmark and Freddie Svane, Denmark's Ambassador to India, along with an eight member delegation, visited the Dadri facility APM Terminals India recently. The visit provided the delegation an opportunity to tour the APM Terminals facility in North India and understand its role in lifting global trade.
Category: ECONOMY & POLICY
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Big projects to miss deadlines
For the current financial year, the government will not meet its infrastructure investment target as hardly any progress made in five of the nine projects identified by the Planning Commission in consultation with the Prime Minister´s Office (PMO). In this background, the PMO has been suggested to review the infrastructure targets set in June based on the progress on each of the identified projects.
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Big projects to miss deadlines
For the current financial year, the government will not meet its infrastructure investment target as hardly any progress made in five of the nine projects identified by the Planning Commission in consultation with the Prime Minister´s Office (PMO). In this background, the PMO has been suggested to review the infrastructure targets set in June based on the progress on each of the identified projects.
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Japanese firms to build industrial township near Chennai
Japanese companies will build manufacturing facilities near Chennai. Japanese companies- Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ajinomoto and Takasago International Corporation are among the early players to enter into agreement with Ascendas and a Japanese consortium in setting up a 1,450-acre integrated industrial township, 50 km south of Chennai. Ascendas said that it has entered into agreements with the three companies to take up space at the township.
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Transmitting station in Chennai
The Union Minister of shipping GK Vasan laid the foundation of the Parangipettai Navtex Transmitting Station at a function in Chennai recently. The Minister said that as part of the government´s obligations under the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, his Ministry has asked its technical arm of the Directorate General of Lighthouses & Lightships (DGLL) to provide for continuous Navigational Telex (Navtex) coverage of Indian waters.
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2nd India Construction Festival 2013 – Move over, policy paralysis
Amid top domain experts, decision makers and policy enablers, this mega event brought to the fore the pressing challenges facing the sector and offered many practical remedies, report MANAS R BASTIA and Shriyal Sethumadhavan.
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Government is working on a Mechanism for speedy resolution of disputes for Infrastructure Projects: Dr. E M Sudarsana Natchiappan
The second day of EXCON 2013 started with a Conference on ‘Sustainable Infrastructure Development’ organized by the Indian Construction Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (ICEMA) in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
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Karnataka okays Rs 10,044 cr worth projects
The Karnataka government has cleared 10 projects with an investment of over Rs 10,044 crore. The projects are expected to create 14,105 jobs in 10 districts of the state.
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Karnataka to give Rs 8,000 cr farm loans
The Karnataka government has decided to give loans of Rs 8,000 crore to 20 lakh farmers in the state, said the State Co-operation Minister HS Mahadeva Prasad on November 17. The State government has already covered 10.50 lakh farmers and distributed Rs 4,400 crore.
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Patnitop ropeway may get SC’s nod: J&K govt
For the proposed rope-way, connecting Kud with Patnitop, the Jammu & Kashmir government is hopeful to get clearance from the Supreme Court, Jammu and Kashmir government said on November 18.