Highlighting the role of the mass rapid transit system in the Indian urban transportation, Abhay Kumar Mishra, CEO, Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd, lauds the successful completion of the first year of the Mumbai Metro

The population surge, rapid urbanisation, and the consequent congestion have time and again fuelled the ´need for speed´. Mass rapid transit system like the metro rail has dawned as a panacea in this regard.

Bringing safety, enhanced performance and lowered life-cycle cost to metros is the modern signalling technology called communication-based train control (CBTC). The methodology and technology have been perfected by companies like Thales.

NITI Aayog has decided to commission the proposed 15-km India-Bangladesh railway project along Tripura by 2017, a top state official said.

¨Rome wasn´t built in a day¨- so goes the saying. But a soaring 57-storey skyscraper in Changsa- located in the Hunan Province of South-Central China- has the marvellous feat of being accomplished within a minuscule span of 15 days

Warehousing market is pegged at Rs 56,000 crore and is expected to grow annually at an average rate of 8 to 10 per cent over the next 5 years to reach a level of 1500 to 1600 million sq ft by 2020.

The global perception that it is not easy to do business in India due to the ´license raj´ is changing as the present government is playing an active role in this regard, says Nicolas Jachiet, Chairman & CEO, Egis Group.

Hyderabad Metro Rail project got its first interim clearance for running trains between Nagole and Mettuguda.

The government has finalised a plan to augment and launch mass rapid transportation systems across 50 cities to minimise commuter woes and ease pollution concerns.