Social distancing in public transport is among the keys to preventing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and new technologies are playing a vital role in addressing this. User-friendliness and ease of adaptability, along with having a variety of options are going to be extremely important for consumers. By CHITRAJIT CHAKRABARTI

Mumbai-based early-stage venture capital fund, Unicorn India Ventures (UIV) has announced its fourth investment from its Rs 4 billion Fund-II in the internet of things (IoT)-enabled smart grid automation start-up, Probus Smart Things.

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.

India’s leading highway infrastructure developer, IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd (IRB) has received the letter of award (LoA) from the National Highway Authorities of India (NHAI) for the 27.500 km long Gandeva-Ena section of the upcoming greenfield project of the eight-lane Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway.

Commencement of commercial coal mining will start a new era of growth and development in Chhattisgarh, the Union Minister of Coal & Mines Pralhad Joshi has.

Details of both models were shared by Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Hardeep Singh Puri while releasing an ARHCs knowledge pack in New Delhi on Friday via video conference.

Cities in India can compete globally on parameters such as optimal use of resources, how we get around, ways to improve our productivity and wellbeing, according to the Atlas of Digitalisation, a data-driven index created by Siemens.

The Indian Railways was confident of completing the entire 2,800 km of the dedicated freight corridor projects by 2022, the head of Dedicated Freight Corridor Corp. of India Ltd (DFCCIL) has claimed.

With the demand for steel expected to be on the higher side both domestically and globally, it was imperative for India to build and effective mechanism to facilitate capacity addition as well as reduce import dependency for coal, a member of the government think-tank has said.