The formation of PDCs will look at large projects that will be built across two to three countries in Africa. Yaduvendra Mathur, Chairman and Managing Director, Export Import Bank of India,
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India’s Renewables Pivot: From Speed to System Strength
IndiGo Expands Saudi Connectivity with Daily Mumbai-Madinah Flights from November 15
Vaishnaw Visits Delhi Station as Railways Set to Run Record 12,011 Festive Trains
UDAN Turns Nine: 15.6 Million Flyers, ₹90 Billion Invested in Regional Aviation
India’s Logistics Cost to Hit Single Digits by December 2025: Gadkari
Toshiba Commits ₹32.32 Billion to Expand T&D Manufacturing in Japan and India
Embraer-Mahindra Alliance to Deliver C-390 Millennium Transport Aircraft for IAF
Inland Waterway Haldia Multi-Modal Terminal Operationalised Under PPP Model
Digital Monitoring Led to Shutdown of 51 Stalled Projects in Northeast: Scindia
IndiGo Confirms 60 A350-900s, Signs Rolls-Royce Deal to Power Long-Haul Expansion
IndiGo to Launch Direct Athens Flights on India’s First Airbus A321XLR
DGCA Launches Auto-Generated Computer Numbers for Flight Crew via Pariksha Portal
India’s Digital Firewall Shields Millions from Spoof Calls, with Even Google Adopting It: Scindia
India Post Preps to Reboot as Logistics Giant Under Scindia’s Watch
India’s Grade A Warehousing Demand Hits Record 26.5 Million Sq Ft in 2025
IndiGo Integrates with Digi Yatra for Seamless, Contactless Boarding
CS TECH Ai Powers Khanij Online 2.0 Rollout for Transparent Mineral Governance in Chhattisgarh
IREE 2025: Schaeffler India Showcases Future-Ready Rail Solutions at IREE 2025
IREE 2025: Vaishnaw Unveils Bold 7,000-km High-Speed Rail Vision to Power Viksit Bharat
More coordination on global monetary policy sought
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan made a case for more coordination in monetary policies by different central banks to deal with the spillover effect on emerging markets. He said that central banks should reinterpret their domestic mandate to take into account other country reactions over time, and thus become more sensitive to spillovers.
Foreign investment inflow to double
Foreign investment in the Indian economy is expected to more than double, with inflows from both foreign direct investment and foreign institutional investors set to surge above $60 billion in the current financial year, compared with the $29 billion in 2013-14, an ASSOCHAM note has projected.
JLL: Reaction To RBI Policy Rate Announcement – Anuj Puri
Anuj Puri - Chairman & Country Head, JLL India says that it has been clear that over the last few months, the RBI been looking for the right circumstances to bring down the repo rate. However, it is also clear that it still perceives a threat of inflation going up again in the near future. As such, the RBI is clearly without choices in the matter. The least it could do to remain equitable to all business sectors was to keep the repo rates on hold, which it has done.
IDFs are the best route to refinance existing projects
Sadashiv Rao, Chief Risk Officer, IDFC Ltd tells Rahul Kamat that IDF-NBFC is a safer route compared to IDF-Mutual Fund, as in the latter, the fund manager can invest in any project (under construction) which will have risk involved in it, and investors may not like to invest in high-risk projects.
Advantage infrastructure
A wide range of projects and facilities are granted the status of infrastructure projects under the new Companies Act, 2013. Prachi Manekar elaborates on the benefits from the new Act for the infrastructure projects.
Provisioning norms eased on loans for low-income housing
Credit Risk Guarantee Fund Trust for Low Income Housing (CRGFTLIH)is established by government of India to cover advances provided for low income housing.
RBI grants QCCP status for CCIL
Qualified central counterparty (QCCP)status granted by RBI to Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL) in the Indian jurisdiction.
Taking stock: Domino effect – Too late to stop?
Is the worst over for infrastructure? The fact that this question lingers is perhaps testimony to the uncertainty that prevails. Unrealistic bids, bureaucratic slowdown, social groundswell, coal scam, mining scam ... the list of factors that has created seemingly unstoppable negativity seems daunting. The government mainly the Prime Minister´s Office had to repeatedly intervene to address frustratingly sticky problems confronting the infrastructure sector.
Recovery or Illusion?
Industry observers have promptly branded the growth in some of the core sectors in the second quarter as ´encouraging´ and ´first signs of recovery´ for the infrastructure sectors.