Mumbai’s new integrated, state-of-the-art Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) was inaugurated on January 10 by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in the presence of the Governor of Maharashtra, K. Shankarnarayanan, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan and other dignitaries. Spread over an area of 4.4 million sqft, the new terminal features a highly compact design ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned $176 million funding for the Jaipur Metro to extend Line 1 of the first phase of the metro. As per the Jaipur Development Authority?s public transport plan, the Rajasthan government is constructing a 9.7km elevated metro train from Mansarovar in the western part of the city to Chandpole on the western edge of ...

The Scale Lane Bridge over the River Hull, the UK, opened recently, offers people the unique and memorable experience of riding on the bridge while it opens and closes. Its form and material give it a distinctive and tough character, appropriate to its context and Hull?s industrial and maritime heritage. The client?s brief was for a new pedestrian/cycle bridge that ...

The Union Cabinet has cleared a `1,400 crore project to track all public transport in 32 cities through a global positioning system (GPS) at the national and state level as part of initiatives under the ?Nirbhaya Fund.? The budget exceeds the `1,000 crore fund created in memory of the victim of the December 16 gang rape, but the project will ...

The Qatar Bahrain Causeway (QBC), also referred to as the Qatar Bahrain Friendship Bridge is a 40km-long causeway connecting Qatar and Bahrain in the Middle East. After completion ? expected to be shortly before the 2020 FIFA World Cup ? it will be the world?s longest fixed causeway. Connecting northern Qatar with the eastern coast of Bahrain, the link will ...

The Mahindra Group has entered into a global alliance with Spain?s CIE Automotive S.A. The alliance will be between Systech Sector, Mahindra group?s automotive component company and the Spanish company. This will see the setting up of an automotive component group with a global presence. The new company will be known as Mahindra CIE. The expected areas of operation will ...

The Central government has placed the Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (ADKIC), which involved the initial budgetary support worth `5,749cr, on the fast track. The project will be the second of its kind, after the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. It will be aligned to the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor and will be spread across 20 cities in seven states passing through Punjab, Haryana, ...

The Jammu and Kashmir government will set up control rooms at the offices of Chief Engineers of major road projects in the state to monitor their progress and resolve issues. Control rooms will be set up in the offices of Chief Engineers of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sevak Yojana (PMGSY), Roads and Borders (R&B), Mechanical Engineering Department (MED), Jammu and Kashmir ...

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has started tunnelling work on the 5.5km long underground Hazrat Nizamuddin ? Lajpat Nagar stretch on the Mukundpur (Majlis Park) ? Shiv Vihar corridor which is a part of Phase III of the Delhi Metro. The corridor will provide direct connectivity to the Sarai Kale Khan Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) and the Hazrat ...

The Reserve Bank of India has allowed holding and core investment companies to generate resources through the external commercial borrowing (ECB) route for investment in special purpose vehicles (SPVs) established exclusively for developing road infrastructure projects. As per the RBI norms, the ECB proceeds have to be invested either for fresh capital expenditure (capex) or for refinancing of existing rupee ...