Roads
Centre mulls Rs90,000-cr plan for tunnel ring road in Mumbai
15 Dec 2014
The union government is planning to build an underground ring road in Mumbai that could be linked to the proposed Ahmedabad-Mumbai highway. The cost of the tunnel ring road project is initially estimated at Rs90,000 crore
Road projects race ahead as govt steps on gas
10 Dec 2014
Govt to launch centralised electronic toll collection system on Delhi-Mumbai highway on 31 October
24 Oct 2014
India plans 1,800 km highway along China border
15 Oct 2014
Aimed at countering Chinese territorial aggressiveness and particularly its building up infrastructure on its side of the line, the proposed Indo-China frontier highway will run parallel to the China border
Road sector: lagging behind in the 5-year Plan, the new government has a lot of catching up to do: ICRA
07 Aug 2014
Germany proposes toll on foreign motorists to upgrade roads
08 Jul 2014
The toll, proposed to be imposed at the start of 2016, will see about 700 million foreign motorists on German roads paying about €600 million annually
MMRDA looks to World Bank, ADB for trans-harbour project loans
28 Oct 2013
MMRDA hopes to raise debt up to 80 per cent of total cost of Rs9,600 crore
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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