Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
India and the US signed a historic agreement to cooperate in civil nuclear energy sector in October 2008. The deal gave a fillip to bilateral ties, which have been on an upswing since.
The Narendra Modi-led government, in its effort to connect India digitally, has doubled the nationwide optical fibre coverage from 7 lakh km in May 2014 to 15 lakh km at the end of 2018, and aims to enhance the fibre footprint five-fold by 2022.
Global majors such as Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) had formed a joint venture with Indian state-run oil marketing companies — Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) — to hold 50 per cent stake in Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals (RRPCL).
The Gujarat government headed by the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi created a legislative framework for the formation of a Special Investment Region Act 2009.
Indian Railways set to export customised ‘Make in India’ coaches to Mozambique! In a first for the Modern Coach Factory (MCF) Raebareli, the Indian Railways coach manufacturing facility will export 90 coaches to South Africa’s Mozambique through RITES.
Piyush Goyal said that order for hundred Vistadome coaches has been given to the concerned production unit of Indian Railways.
As discussed in a meeting of the Department of Heavy Industry on Wednesday, the makers will have to manufacture minimum of 50 percent of components of EVs within the country in order to avail these incentives. The 50 percent bar stands alike for electric four-wheelers electric three-wheelers, two-wheelers as well as e-rickshaws. While in the case of electric buses, the bar drops down to 40 percent.
Sudhanshu Mani, former GM of the ICF who oversaw the production of Vande Bharat Express, told ZeeBiz.com that ICF has a fantastic team and it only needed to harness the enthusiasm of the team to achieve the record.
The project, once commissioned, will be one of the largest open access solar power projects in Uttar Pradesh and will offset over 85,000 tonne of carbon emissions every year, the statement said.
The Ahmedabad Metro first phase will be 40 km long, of which 6.5 km is underground and the remaining stretch is elevated.It has two corridors – one from Vastral to Thaltej Gam and the other from Gyaspur depot to Motera stadium.
