The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 11, 2006

HAL appoints Yogesh Kumar as LCA project head
BANGALORE: Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has appointed Mr Yogesh Kumar as Director of its Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-Tejas) project. Mr Kumar was the Executive Director heading HAL's Aircraft Research & Design Centre and Rotary Wing ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

E-GoM to decide on airports modernisation tomorrow
THE plan for modernisation of the Delhi and Mumbai airports is all set to move ahead with the empowered Group of Ministers (e-GoM) scheduled to meet here on Thursday to take a final view on the bids made for the projects. This is despite the ... More

SHIPPING

Mumbai port terminal: Ten players get security clearance
ALMOST all players, including Evergreen Marine, Mitsui OSK, P&O Ports and AP Moller Finance SA, are on board for bidding for the offshore container terminal of Mumbai Port Trust with the security clearance for 10 out of 11 interested companies .. More

Record potash discharge at Vizag port
A RECORD quantity of 14,587 tonnes of muriate of potash in bulk was discharged in 24 hours on Monday from the vessel — MV Nemtas — berthed at EQ 7 in Visakhapatnam port, surpassing all previous records. The stevedores, V. Dhana Reddy ... More

RAILWAYS

Railways bid to enter carbon trading biz
INDIAN Railways has launched an exercise to weigh its energy-saving efforts in gold or should we say carbon gold. The CLW-developed new three-phase electric locos, based on ABB technology, and now fully absorbed into the system, has set the ... More

3-phase locos a money-spinner
ACCORDING to estimates prepared by experts at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW), Indian Railways' own electricity generation from 3-phase locomotives will reach 200 million units plus per annum by 2007-08. As on date, 120 3-phase locos held ... More

TN Govt invites bids for Chennai monorail project
The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) has identified about 490 km of principal transit routes within the city and surrounding areas to form part of an integrated inter-modal mass transit network. It proposes to take up 300 km of this for the m onorail project. More

East Coast Rly hopes to handle 79-mt freight traffic
EAST Coast Railway (ECR), having its headquarters in Bhubaneswar and network spread over large parts of Orissa and some parts of Andhra Pradesh, hopes to handle a freight traffic of 78-79 million tonnes (mt) in the current fiscal compared to ... More

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