Seventy years after independence, India is racing to connect thousands of villages with electricity as it looks to accelerate growth whose dividend are distributed to all. The new year will see the government accelerate efforts to achieve the mammoth task of reaching power to more than a quarter of a billion people who lack access […]
Day: January 1, 2018
Delhi fog: Flight operations resume at IGI airport as visibility improves
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) Delhi resumed after remaining suspended for a few hours in the wake of a dense fog canopying the whole national capital region on the morning of Day One of 2018 and the visibility dropping below 50 metres. Many flights, however, continue to be delayed at the time […]
Perform or perish: New Air India chief’s New Year message to employees
Terming “professional and productive work culture” as the key to the airline’s turnaround, Air India chief Pradeep Singh Kharola has said in a message to employees that “we have to perform if we do not want to perish”. Kharola, who took over as chairman and managing director of the disinvestment-bound national carrier earlier this month, […]
Gayatri Projects hits 52-week high on order win of Rs 583 crore from NHAI
Gayatri Projects hits 52-week high of Rs 235, up 4% on the BSE, after the company announced it has bagged a new order of Rs 583 crore contract from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). The order is for rehabilitation and uprgadation of Cuttack-Angul Section of NH-42 (NEW NH-55) to 4-lane (km. 0+400 to k.m.60+200) […]