News Google plans $15bn AI hub in India Google says it will spend $15bn between 2026 to 2030 on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India. Plans include a hub in the east coast city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra…
News Larsen & Toubro to build India’s biggest green hydrogen plant Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) will build and operate the country’s biggest green hydrogen plant at a state-owned refinery in Panipat, Haryana. Powered by renewable energy, it will produce…
News China starts on world’s biggest hydropower dam in Tibet Construction has begun on the world’s largest hydropower dam, a $167bn Chinese project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, according to state news agency Xinhua. Five cascade hydropower stations will produce…
News Work on India’s $8.9bn offshore airport may begin ‘as early as next year’ India may begin work on its first offshore airport next year, according to the chief minister of the state of Maharashtra. Vadhavan International Airport would be built off the coast…
Machinery, News Daimler unveils new construction trucks for India BharatBenz, a subsidiary of Mercedes owner Daimler, has launched a new range of construction vehicles for the Indian market, where it says big contractors’ fleets are ageing. Its HX and…
News Indian state suspends engineers over bridge with 90-degree turn The state government of Madhya Pradesh in northeast India suspended seven engineers on Saturday after images of a road bridge with a right-angle turn went viral on social media. Among…
News India tightens rules on project lending amid big defaults India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has said it will require lenders to keep money in reserve equal to 1% of the value of loans given to…
News New Gorakhpur Expressway continues India’s road modernisation The chief minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, today opened the 91km Gorakhpur Expressway, an $841m project he kicked off in 2018. The four-lane toll road,…
News Modi hails fast metro build-out in Uttar Pradesh’s second city Indian prime minister Narendra Modi opened a 14km, five-station extension of the Orange metro line in Kanpur last week, continuing the rapid build-out of mass transit in the state of…
News Leighton Asia to build 10 residential towers south of New Delhi Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia has been awarded a $130m contract by Indian real estate company Elan Group to build a residential project in Gurugram, a city on the southwest outskirts…
News India mulls major ring road around Goa India’s highways minister Nitin Gadkari said Friday that central government is considering a ring road around the small, coastal state of Goa – a tourism hotspot – so drivers can…
Machinery, News India’s ACE notches up best year ever With India’s economy growing rapidly, Indian machinery maker Action Construction Equipment (ACE) has posted its best ever yearly results with total income up by 14.6% year-on-year and profits at 11.9%.…
Machinery JCB hails UK-India trade deal as ‘massive opportunity’ UK machinery maker JCB has welcomed this month’s UK-India Free Trade Agreement after the formal conclusion of talks between the two countries on 6 May. The deal still needs to…
News South Korean giant begins work on third Indian factory South Korean conglomerate LG has announced plans to build its third manufacturing plant in India. This will be a $600m, 247-acre project located in Sri City in the state of…
News Coal India to spend $3bn on renewables after hydrogen deal Coal India (CIL) signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to supply 4.5GW of renewable electricity to a green hydrogen operation in one of the largest deals of its kind…
News Modi lays foundation stone for delayed state capital, again Ten years after laying the foundation stone for “Amaravati”, the Foster-masterplanned new capital city for the state of Andhra Pradesh, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi did it again on Friday.
News Hindustan-Tata JV lands 8km section of new Indore metro A joint venture of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) and Tata Projects has won a $259m (21.9 billion rupees) contract to build a section of a new metro system for the city of Indore, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Machinery, News Case introduces new products in India Case Construction Equipment, a subsidiary of CNH Industrial, will begin manufacturing two new compactors at its factory in Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh for the Indian equipment market. Case will manufacture the…