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Cabinet approves Rs50,655-cr investment in 8 national high-speed road corridor projects
04 Aug 2024
The union cabinet at its meeting on Friday approved investment of around Rs50,655 crore across eight critical projects in the National High-speed Road Corridor, of a total length of 936 km.
Govt to build 6,000 km of EV-ready highways by 2030
11 Jan 2024
The government has proposed to build 6,000 km of highways that are ready for electric mobility over the next seven years, as part of the proposed Vision 2030 PM Public Transport Sewa projects.
RIL pushes use of waste plastics in road projects
30 Jan 2020
India produces plastics waste of over 25,940 tonnes every day, most of which ends up in landfills or the seas, in the absence of an organised system of plastic waste management
Canadian pension fund to get majority stake in L&T IDPL
16 Sep 2019
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which reinvested Rs1,120 crore of its original Rs2,000 crore investment to acquire a 30 per cent stake in L&T IDPL sponsored InvIT unit, now holds all high value projects of L&T IDPL through the InvIT
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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