The country’s second-largest manufacturer of electric power transmission towers and one of the world’s largest power transmission engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies, KEC International Ltd has secured new orders worth Rs 11.92 billion across its various businesses.

In its effort to improve the quality of roads, the state-owned builder of expressways under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to undertake performance assessment and ranking of highways in the country.

Union Minister for Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises (MSME) & Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has suggested that companies must invest about 2-3 per cent of their annual profits into R&D as the conversion of knowledge into wealth played an important role in the development of the industry.

The disruption caused by the nationwide lockdown for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent workers’ exodus from cities back to their homes will result in technology playing an even bigger role in the execution of the metro rail projects, experts have said.

Clean energy solutions firm Magenta Power has successfully bagged the project for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of rooftop solar power project for the state-owned aerospace and defence company Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) at Bangalore.

In his fifth public address ever since the country’s announced the world’s largest lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic on March 24, Prime Minister Modi gave a clarion call for a ‘Self-Reliant India’ as well as outlined five pillars of the economy, infrastructure, system, demography and demand on which this would be based.

India’s largest and fully integrated solar power company, Tata Power Solar has completed commissioning of over 425 MW rooftop projects, over 5.4 GW large projects, and more than 25,000 installations of solar water pumps across the country, the company said in a statement issued late Thursday evening.

Asia's second largest rail network, the Indian Railways, has initiated a move to rope in private operators.

Clean energy solutions firm Magenta Power has won the contract for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of rooftop solar power project for the state-owned aerospace and defence company Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) at Bangalore.