India's heavy and growing dependence on imported energy is putting financial strain on the economy. More than half of India's $191 billion trade deficit in the financial year 2012-13 was due to oil imports,
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The Long Transformation Ride
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The Go-Getter
Arun Chandran, Managing Director - SynergiZ Global Services Private Limited & Project Director -(Parsons Brinckerhoff)- L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail, has over 17 years of management and engineering experience in design, installation, testing and commissioning of major infrastructure projects in varied sectors like aviation
Legal eagle
Avantha Group Company CG has appointed Ravi Rajagopal as its Executive Vice-President & Global Head - Legal, Governance and Risk. Rajagopal will also be a member of the Executive Committee of CG.
New age leader
Siddharth Vasudevan, Executive Director Corporate Affairs, Vascon Engineers Ltd. is a strong source of inspiration as an emerging entrepreneur for new age business leaders of the company.
A Great Innovator
Shantha Martin is CEO - ISC, Middle East, South & East Africa, Allcargo Logistics. She heads the NVOCC division. She holds a B. Sc. Degree and an MBA (Marketing) from TAPMI, Manipal.
Pending Bills: Still bill
All hopes are set on the new government that will drive the country's growth in the coming times. While a number of policies and bills were passed towards the end of the last government's term, there are still a number of pending bills that are important for the people,
Prime Minister, please
By the time this issue reaches your hands, the new government would have taken over. Which are the burning issues in the infrastructure space that have to be tackled on an urgent basis?
Pending bills that matter
Industry analysts share their views on the bills that are pending in the Parliament and how they will impact once they take the shape of a law. The Coal Regulatory Authority of India Bill (CRAI) is a much needed piece of legislation.
Waiting in the wings
There is a perennial need for regulatory and institutional changes to keep in step with the social and infrastructural development. It often seems that the law is playing catch up with situations that evolve and many a times it is possible to trace in new or amended legislation the exact gap or mischief it is trying to plug.
Metro Rail: Glamour meets utility
A round 2.5 million passengers use the Delhi Metro everyday that has an operational distance of 190 km with an aim to touch 400 km by 2021. "Despite the metro expanding across cities, the pace of metro expansion is inadequate



