Web Exclusive Jun 19, 2020 BLR Airport Heightens Hygiene Protocol for Maximum Passenger Safety Enhanced hygiene protocol includes ultraviolet (UV) treatment of security trays, with a dedicated team also manually sanitising them after every use, UV treatment of trolleys in a cordoned-off area, ultra-low volume (ULV) fogging for check-in bags and a proposal to introduce silver nano coating technology for surface disinfection.
Web Exclusive Jun 10, 2020 Proposal to Allow Private Sector Use of ISRO Facilities and Other Assets Union Minister of State for Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh said in New Delhi on Tuesday that the private sector will be allowed to use Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities and other relevant assets to improve its capacities.
Web Exclusive May 21, 2020 Will PM Modi's economic package revive Indian businesses? CW’s webinar discusses the current economic scenario, the stimulus package, what can be done to revive the economy, and more...
Web Exclusive Apr 30, 2020 Real Estate Sector should form their own NBFCs for running business: Nitin Gadkari Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Nitin Jairam Gadkari has urged Indian real estate developers and their associations to form their own non-banking finance companies (NBFC)s to support their businesses.
Cover Story Apr 01, 2020 Privatisation Not an Easy Task Asia's second largest rail network, the Indian Railways, has initiated a move to rope in private operators.
Cover Story Apr 01, 2020 Metro Rail: Focus on Standardisation and Indigenisation To increase ridership in metro rail network there is a need to develop a comprehensive mobility plan not only for the primary transport system but also for the secondary and tertiary system for first and last-mile connectivity and, therefore, the need for setting up of a unified metropolitan transport authority.
Interview Jan 01, 2020 Revive PPPs on a war footing! Meanwhile, after coming to power in 2014, though the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) understood the enormity of the problem it decided to make do with engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) as a stop-gap measure.
Transport Update Jan 01, 2020 Shipping Ministry Agrees to SCI Divestment The Ministry of Shipping is not opposed to strategic divestment of the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), news reports quoted Gopal Krishan, Shipping Secretary as saying.
Web Exclusive Nov 28, 2019 Series of measures taken to increase non-fare revenue: Railway Minister Indian Railways has taken a slew of measures including monetisation of land and other assets and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the bid to increase its share of the revenue from non-fare sources, Union Minister of Railways, Piyush Vedprakash Goyal informed Lok Sabha in a written reply to an unstarred question on Wednesday.