Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
Making a new record, Piyush Goyal led-Indian Railways manufactured a total of 6037 coaches this financial year against the production of 4,470 coaches (previous record) last year. The growth in coach production this year is 35 per cent more than the last financial year.
Monday’s liftoff of PSLV-C45 carrying a DRDO payload Emisat and 28 foreign satellites will be the first such launch which spectators can witness at the space agency’s island, which is over 100km north of Chennai. The agency’s move to open its high-security launch facility for people for free is on the lines of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), which too allows people in the US to watch its space activities, including rocket launches.
The reactor weighing 1,858 tonne is manufactured for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd’s (HPCL) Visakh Refinery Modernisation Project.
Modi’s ‘Act East’ policy is bearing fruit and has been immensely praised by the people of the Northeast. Roads, bridges and airports have connected the states of the Northeast to the rest of India like never before.
Complementing environment conservation with technological innovation, the municipal solid waste supplied by the Varanasi Municipal Corporation is converted to electric power, thus ensuring scientific disposal of waste through a sustainable and environmentally friendly process.
The Sabang port is being developed in partnership with neighbour and strategic partner Indonesia. An Indian Coast Guard Ship Vijit, is currently on a visit to Sabang, Indonesia, from March 17-20. The deep sea portwill give India wide access to Southeast Asia as a counter-balancing force. The port will be a key element in India’s Indo-Pacific strategy, persons familiar with the project told ET.
Company entered Indian market in October 2017 with pilot, is silent on quantum of investment planned
Sources said that an Indian company and a Japanese firm will come together and manufacture coaches for phase II of Chennai Metro Rail project in India but only after the tender process is over and the contract is awarded, it will be known which two firms will come together for this project.
Highly placed official sources told The Assam Tribune here that the coordinated operation by the armed forces of India and Myanmar was launched on February 17 after days of preparations and the operation was completed by wiping out the camps of the insurgents on March 2 to avert a possible threat to the Kaladan project and the Indian workers working in Myanmar for the implementation of the project.
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.
