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Centre announces mega stimulus package worth Rs 20 lakh crore
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a special economic package to bailout India’s economic crisis due to COVID-19 lockdown on 12 May 2020. The...
Centre makes major announcements to combat COVID-19 pandemic
Prime Minister had called for a complete lockdown of the entire nation with effect from 25 March 2020 in an effort to contain the...
Centre announces mega economic package to combat COVID-19 pandemic
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a complete lockdown of the entire nation for 21 days with effect from 25 March 2020 in an...
National Infrastructure Pipeline worth Rs 102 lakh cr to spur economic growth
Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman on 31 December 2019 unveiled a plan to invest Rs 102 lakh crore over five years to develop...
BKC-Chunabhatti Connector: Mumbai’s new flyover reduces commuters vows
The Bandra Kurla Complex-Chunabhatti Connector has been thrown open for public use on 10 November 2019.
With this new flyover, the travel time has now...
Thermal power plants face shut down as demand falls
A total of 133 thermal power units across the country were reported to have shut down due to lack of demand. As on 11...
Indian Navy gets first Aircraft-Carrier Dry Dock
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Indian Navy’s first Aircraft-Carrier Dry Dock in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 28 September 2019.
The Aircraft Carrier Dock (ACD)...
G-Ride to upgrade rail connectivity in Gujarat
In a move to improve railway connectivity in Gujarat, the state government and the Ministry of Railways inked a joint venture agreement on 17...
Shift to BS-VI norms to create temporary hiccups in Automobile industry
The Central government has decided to directly switch over from Bharat Stage (BS)-IV to BS-VI emission norms from 1 April 2020. The government had...
NHAI to revive BOT model, offers 950 km for tendering
In a bid to revive Public Private Partnership (PPP) in highway projects, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has identified various stretches on...