Four months after launching its Heavyweight Express service for India’s manufacturing sector, Infrastructure Today’s Manish Pant spoke with Sandeep Juneja, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, DHL Express India, about the company’s roadmap in the world’s fastest‑growing major economy. While the ongoing West Asia conflict has added uncertainty to global supply chains, Juneja remains optimistic...
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India Needs Workforce Continuity Crisis Mandate
With India’s supply chain undergoing a sweeping transformation, driven by high‑capacity railway mega‑projects like the Dedicated Freight Corridors, stakeholders must ensure the right people, in the right places, with the right skills to sustain synchronised operations, cautions Deepesh Gupta. India’s supply chain ecosystem is entering one of its most transformative phases. Sustained investment in infrastructure,...
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Airtel Cloud Signs 40 Clients as Manufacturing Fuels India Growth
For manufacturers, cloud infrastructure is moving beyond IT modernisation to integrate legacy systems, production applications, warehouses and supply‑chain platforms. Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom operator, has signed around 40 customers within a year of launching its sovereign cloud platform, with manufacturing companies accounting for about a quarter of its clientele. Manufacturers such as VE Commercial...
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Homegrown Airtel Cloud Seeks to Support India’s Sovereign Manufacturing AI
By hosting all data within India, Airtel Cloud gives enterprises stronger control over critical workloads. India’s factories are becoming smarter with connected machines, automated production lines, industrial sensors, AI‑led analytics and smart supply chains transforming how manufacturers operate. Yet as industrial data and AI move deeper into production, exposure to risks grows. Manufacturers now need...
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Building Certainty Before Construction
Stand beneath the soaring spans of a modern industrial hub or a high-velocity transit terminal, and the space feels inevitable. Yet anyone who has lived through a project knows construction is rarely about concrete or steel alone. It is about managing relentless collisions of capital, weather, material markets, and dozens of trade contractors competing for...
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IMC 2025: Scindia Highlights India’s Digital Leap in Manufacturing, Startups
The communications minister said that from semiconductor fabs to women-led startups, India’s innovation ecosystem is scaling from Tier 1 metros to Tier 3 towns. Reiterating a perspective shared on the opening day of the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2025, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister for Communications, said India’s evolution from a services-led economy to a global...
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Outlook on toll roads businesses looks positive
Toll collections to increase by 17-20% in FY2023
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Bentley Systems announces the finalists Going Digital Awards in infrastructure
The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley software. Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, announced the finalists for the 2021 Going Digital Awards in infrastructure. The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world. A 16 independent jury...
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Cabinet Approves PLI Scheme for 10 Key Sectors for Enhancing Manufacturing Capabilities
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval to introduce the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme in ten key sectors.
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India to be the fastest growing market for project managers | Global PMI Study
A new Anderson Economic Group (AEG) analysis commissioned by the Project Management Institute (PMI) finds the project management profession will outperform total global job growth over the next decade, creating millions of new positions in India that pay highly-competitive wages.