The implementing agency for RCS (regional connectivity scheme) UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) - Airports Authority of India (AAI) has received 45 initial proposals from 11 bidders covering more than 200 RCS routes. The deadline for submitting ini
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), a Maharatna enterprise, has recently commissioned a 500 MW thermal unit in West Bengal. The unit was the second 500 MW set to be commissioned at Sagardighi Thermal Power Station (TPS) phase
Minister of steel Chaudhary Birender Singh chaired a meeting of the parliamentary consultative committee attached to the ministry of steel in New Delhi on initiatives taken by the steel ministry to enhance demand and production of steel in the cou
This time of the year, the corridors of Rail Bhawan on Delhi’s Raisina Road, would normally have been abuzz with activity as officials would be at work tightening the nuts and bolts of the railway budget. The exercise was so time consuming,
In order to restore the beauty and serenity of the kunds, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC), an energy maharatna, is all set to clean the four kunds based at Varanasi -- Durga kund, Lakshmi kund, Sarangnath kund and Laat Bhairav kun
The department of investment and public asset management under the finance ministry has invited bids to appoint merchant bankers for selling the government’s entire 51 percent stake in Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd—a
State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) — Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd are likely to bear the burden of charges levied on digital transactions for
National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) has inked a memorandum of understanding with Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (RVUN) and Rajasthan Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (RUVNL) to take over Chhabra Thermal Power Plant stage one
The Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), a maharatna undertaking, has bagged a mega order from Power Grid for the augmentation of three extra high voltage (EHV) substations in Karnataka on turnkey basis. Valued at Rs 96 crore,
The Graduate Aptitude Exam in Engineering (GATE) is turning out to be a sole deciding factor for recruitment of engineering graduates into the coveted Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), reported The New Indian Express. The exam is
In a significant development, the government has approved 26 percent strategic sale in state-run BEML Limited, a mini-ratna (category-1) public undertaking. A notification to stock exchanges informed that the ministry of defence has approv
With only a few days left in Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017, the state government is likely to sign MoUs worth Rs 30 lakh crore, surpassing the investment pledged during the previous edition in 2015, reported The Economic Ti
In its bid to boost passenger traffic, national carrier Air India has slashed economy class fares to match those offered by Indian Railways premium train—Rajdhani Express on select routes. The Air India economy class fare sta
Shares of refineries and petro products firms – Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) and Chennai Petroleum Corporation (CPCL), miniratna one category undertakings – have registered their respective 52-week highs on the Bo
In a bid to encourage people to use digital modes of payments, oil marketing companies -- Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL -- have decided to offer discount of Rs 5 on every LPG (cooking gas) cylinder to their customers booking cylinders online.
A 600 MW coal-based thermal power plant was recently commissioned by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), a maharatna undertaking, in Telangana. The thermal plant unit has been commissioned at the 2x600 MW Singareni Thermal Pow
Oil PSUs members have come together to set up a Skill Development Institute in Visakhapatnam (SDI-Vskp). The Members, HPCL, IOCL, BPCL, ONGC, OIL, GAIL, EIL and Balmer Lawrie, have taken this initiative for skills development of unemployed youth u
BSNL was incurring `8,000 crore loss in 2014. But today it has earned an operating profit of `672 crore in just one and half years’ time,” proudly claimed IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, while addressing a ‘Vikas Parv’ fun
The union cabinet has approved the sale of surplus land of Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL), Indian Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL), Rajasthan Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Limited (RDPL) and Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceutical
Over a month after hundreds of people lost their lives in Indore-Patna Express accident at Pukhrayan in Kanpur, railways has decided to double the compensation paid to train accident victims. As per the revised compensation rules, t
