In an important move on Wednesday evening, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave its approval for the development of Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (AHRCs) for urban migrants and poor as a sub-scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U).

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh chaired a high-level meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday to review the progress of various infrastructure projects under construction along India’s international borders.

The World Bank and Govt of India on Tuesday signed a loan agreement to enhance support for the Namami Gange programme that seeks to rejuvenate the River Ganga.

The World Bank and the Govt of India on Monday signed the $750 million agreement for the MSME Emergency Response Programme to support the increased flow of finance into the hands of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Welspun One Logistics Parks (WOLP) launched its maiden 110-acre Grade-A warehousing park with a leasable area of 3.2 million sq. ft and an estimated investment of Rs 9 billion ($120 million) in Bhiwandi, a key warehousing market in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), India’s largest consumption centre.

India’s largest data centre building, Yotta NM1, the largest Tier-IV data centre, certified by Uptime Institute in Asia, and the second-largest in the world was inaugurated in the virtual presence of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Govt. of India, Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister, Maharashtra and Subhash Desai, Minister of Industries and Mining, Govt. of Maharashtra.

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.

India’s overall petroleum products consumption, which had nosedived in the last week of March and April this year, steadily returned to the pre-lockdown levels in June 2020, data emanating from the sales figures of public sector oil majors IOC, BPC and HPC has revealed.

India has amended the dimensions for transport vehicles. This has been done to bring them in line with international standards as well as improve their logistics efficiency as enhanced dimension would provide for extra passengers or carrying capacity within the prescribed weight.