Asia’s largest rail transporter, the Indian Railways achieved a significant milestone when its freight loading for the month of August 2020 surpassed the volume for the same month last year.

The Kempegowda International Airport (KIAB/BLR Airport) marked 100 days since the resumption of scheduled domestic air travel in India on Tuesday.

Secretary, Ministry of Coal, Anil Kumar Jain on Tuesday said that his ministry was already in discussion with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to reduce the time taken for getting forest clearance.

One of the country’s leading steelmakers, JSW Steel Ltd expects a larger play in the specialty coil coating business. Colour coated coils with properties like anti-microbial and anti-dust have opened new opportunities for the product segment to grow in India amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari has said that public transport must start looking at alternate fuels like biofuels, CNG and electricity.

Govt of India, Govt of Maharashtra, Mumbai Railway Vikas Corp. (MRVC) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) today signed a loan agreement for a $500 million Mumbai Urban Transport Project-III to improve the network capacity, service quality and safety of the suburban railway system in the country’s commercial centre.

About 15.8 billion metric tonnes (MT) of steel and 69.2 billion MT of cement is likely to be consumed in the construction of all the houses sanctioned under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) as per estimates, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has said.

Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stones for 13 highway projects and inaugurated a road safety project in the North-Eastern State of Manipur through video conference on Monday.

The Indian Railways has generated more than 550,000 man-days of work under the Gareeb Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyaan in six States of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.