Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, informed about the union government’s plan to set up a modern floating jetty at the Biswanath Ghat soon. This will create a smooth platform to transport both cargo & passengers via waterways which in turn will transform the local economy.

With several countries of the world slipping into a recession, tyre maker Ceat is planning to invest in the off-highway tyres segment. Agricultural activity gets less impacted compared to industrial activity even during a recession, feels Anant Goenka, MD, Ceat. Speaking to Sohini Das, Goenka highlights how continuous investments in digitisation has helped them improve outputs

Tata Steel and TuTr Hyperloop signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) at IIT Madras to jointly work on development and deployment of Hyperloop technology at scale. The main research areas will focus on key challenges of design and materials selection. Hyperloop is a future option for high-speed, low cost, sustainable transport system for both passengers and cargo

The UT administration has zeroed in on the sewer men colony in Sector 20 for the government housing re-densification project, a move to demolish old, mostly single-storey houses, and replace them with new multi-storey group housing.

Solar equipment maker Waaree will ramp up its module manufacturing capacity to 12 GW by March 2023 from the existing nine GW. Further, the company is setting up additional module manufacturing capacity, which will take its module manufacturing capacity to 12 GW for a 650-watt module by March 2023.

Twelve power supply sub-stations of 66/11 KV have been sanctioned for power improvement in Kodagu district so far, and now a new center has been sanctioned for Hudikeri in Ponnampet taluk.

Under the National Technical Textiles Mission, so far 74 research projects of value of Rs 232 crore in the areas of speciality fibres and technical textiles by premier Research Institutes and Research Organisations of the country in association with industry as partners undertaking research projects have been approved.

Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India plans to invest up to Rs 1,500 crore in the next three years in expansion, including room additions and resort acquisitions.

Southern Railway has decided to conduct a feasibility study to provide rail connectivity to nine towns—Valparai, Gobichettipalayam, Krishnagiri, Edappadi, Devakottai, Kambam, Dharapuram, Pernampattu and Kallakuruchi—in Tamil Nadu. While Krishnagiri and Kallakuruchi are district headquarters, the remaining towns are taluk headquarters