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…

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…

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…

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%.…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

Six construction workers have been injured after the bridge they were working on collapsed in Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh, during the evening of Monday 28 April. The bridge was to have…

Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has broken through on India’s longest railway tunnel, linking Devprayag and Janasu in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The 14.5km-long Tunnel Number 8 forms…

The Indian Institute of Technology has worked with the Indian Army on what they say is the “world’s highest on-site” print in the Himalayas. The military bunker in Leh, in…

Maharashtra-based JSW Energy has started building a 1.6GW coal power plant and industrial park in the Indian state of West Bengal, in part to capitalise on the global economic chaos…

Nitin Gadkari, India’s minister of roads and highways, has said the ill-fated Goa to Mumbai highway is due to be completed in June. Work on four-laning the 580km route began…

A breakthrough is expected today on the 4.5km-long Silkyara Bend-Barkot road tunnel in the Himalayan mountains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand as excavation teams meet in the middle.…

Two rail projects have been inaugurated in Anuradhapura, northern Sri Lanka as part of the India-Sri Lanka development partnership. The 128km Maho-Omanthai railway has been funded with $91m from India,…

Australian contractor Leighton Asia has been chosen to construct six high-rise residential towers in Mumbai for local developer Godrej Properties. In all, the 44-storey towers will provide almost 500,000 sq…