The Union Cabinet cleared Rs 13,041 crore of rail and road work on 19 August 2026, and for equipment buyers…

Escorts Kubota broke ground on its greenfield plant in Uttar Pradesh today, and for anyone pricing a backhoe loader or…

Ceigall India has taken a second Arunachal Pradesh road award inside two days, and this one arrives with a different…

Maharashtra has cleared two large civil packages in a single sitting, and between them they put about Rs 28,227 crore…

Ceigall India and Sushee Infra & Mining now hold four signed letters of acceptance for road work on NH-913 in…

A Rs 297.37 crore central sanction for nine Uttarakhand roads looks like a modest number until you divide it by…

Assam has put money behind the airport city it announced in July. The state Cabinet cleared Rs 2,100 crore on…

BEML has picked up a USD 6.65 million order from Mauritius for its BE220G hydraulic excavators, with the machines headed…

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 2,386.08 crore to four-lane two national highway sections between Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh in northwest…

Mahindra launched a new heavy truck range on Friday, and the line worth a construction buyer’s attention is not the…

Kalpataru Projects International said on Friday it has won new orders worth about Rs 3,526 crore, all of them in…

GR Infraprojects has been declared the successful bidder for the Varanasi Multi Modal Logistics Park, a Rs 91.60 crore award…

Haryana’s cabinet has cleared a Rs 5,714.80 crore water programme that spends most of its money rehabilitating irrigation assets the…

Ashoka Buildcon has taken the letter of intent for a 400/220/132 kV substation at Sakoli in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district, awarded…

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles has committed a further Rs 4,000 crore to Tamil Nadu, and for anyone running or buying…

If you run tippers or dumpers, the Central Motor Vehicles Rules have just picked up a line item that will…

Odisha has committed Rs 12,458.04 crore of its own money to lifting river water onto land that gravity canals cannot…

Andhra Pradesh cleared Rs 2.08 lakh crore of fresh investment on Wednesday, and for anyone who owns or hires machines…

The board seat that decides what BEML builds for mining and construction sites has a name attached to it again.…

A Rs 334.89 crore sanction for 3.584 km of elevated road inside Visakhapatnam Port works out to about Rs 93…

Madhya Pradesh has cleared Rs 1,757.55 crore to widen the 44.83 km Bhopal-Vidisha road to four lanes with paved shoulders.…

Hindustan Construction Company has taken a Rs 524.17 crore order from NHPC to repair the concrete dam at the Salal…

Bajel Projects has picked up two transmission line packages from POWERGRID worth more than Rs 700 crore between them, and…

Uttarakhand’s cabinet has cleared a memorandum of understanding with Uttar Pradesh to extend the Ganga Expressway from Meerut to Haridwar.…

J. Kumar Infraprojects has taken a Rs 990.16 crore letter of acceptance from the Karnataka Housing Board to build an…

BEML’s June-quarter print carries one line that matters more to a machine buyer than the loss number does: mining and…

RMZ has handed Tata Projects a Rs 670.24 crore contract to build RMZ Infinity, a four-tower commercial campus in Porur,…

Rajasthan has sanctioned Rs 2,101 crore to build 3,232 non-patchable and missing-link roads running to 6,418 km. Divide those figures…

Tata Projects has a new managing director and chief executive, and his background says something useful about where one of…

Chhattisgarh has handed BEML the land for what would be the state’s first heavy earth moving equipment factory. If you…

Noida Metro Rail Corporation has handed Larsen & Toubro the civil package for both Aqua Line extensions: the elevated viaduct…

Every wire ran the same number this week: wheeled construction equipment retail up 46.07% in July. It is the fastest-growing…

The Centre has cleared the Guwahati-Tezpur corridor on NH-15 in Assam, and the number that matters to fleet owners is…

Afcons Infrastructure has a letter of acceptance from Mumbai’s civic body for a Rs 1,918 crore water tunnel under the…

NHAI has stopped collecting toll on the Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway and opened penalty proceedings against the concessionaire after a stretch of…

India’s dominant self-loading concrete mixer maker raised prices, held them through a soft quarter, and still took six points of…

Transmission work rarely makes an equipment buyer’s shortlist, and that is exactly why the Kurnool-IV transmission project is worth reading…

NBCC (India) told the stock exchanges on Wednesday that it has picked up fresh domestic work worth Rs 801.20 crore.…

A Rs 854.57 crore package has just landed at SAIL’s Burnpur steel plant, and the line that matters to anyone…

A Rs 198.49 crore sewer contract in outer Delhi will not move any headlines, but it is exactly the kind…

KEC International has booked Rs 1,063 crore of fresh orders, and the useful question for anyone running iron is not…

Uttar Pradesh has sanctioned a six-lane greenfield expressway between Noida International Airport at Jewar and the Ganga Expressway, and for…

India shipped 16.58 million tonnes more coal in July than it dug out of the ground. That subtraction, not the…

Haryana has cleared Rs 207.29 crore for an integrated railway overbridge in Rewari that replaces three busy level crossings in…

India’s largest crane rental company just booked its best quarter on record, and the revenue line is not the interesting…

Escorts Kubota moved 1,344 construction machines in the June quarter, 27.4% more than a year ago, and still watched its…

Uttar Pradesh has released the balance seed capital for Harnandipuram, the Ghaziabad Development Authority’s 501-hectare township on the Delhi-NCR edge.…

Four national highway packages in Andhra Pradesh moved to the ground stage on 1 August 2026, and the part worth…

CASE Construction Equipment India has cut its FY27 industry growth call from double digits to single digits, and the reason…

India’s biggest highway programme is running out of road left to build. Of the 26,425 km awarded under Bharatmala Pariyojana…

NCC Limited booked Rs 1,052.71 crore of fresh orders in July 2026, and not one rupee of it was a…

Indian Railways has sanctioned Rs 299 crore to rebuild the coaching yard at Visakhapatnam, one of the busiest terminals in…

Odisha’s cabinet cleared four irrigation packages worth roughly Rs 626 crore on 1 August, and the detail that matters to…

Escorts Kubota sold 534 construction machines in July 2026, up 49.2% on the same month last year. A near-50% jump…

Roughly 6,500 Indian-built excavators and backhoe loaders left the country through unauthorised channels last year, a trade the managing director…

Larsen & Toubro has been given a limited notice to proceed on the main plant package of NTPC Lara Stage-III,…

Bihar has cleared Rs 239.33 crore to widen and strengthen 44 km of State Highway 25 between Bhagalpur, Amarpur and…

Rail Vikas Nigam has landed a Rs 358.97 crore letter of acceptance from East Central Railway to double 41 km…

Coal India spent Rs 3,399 crore on capital expenditure in the April-June quarter, up 16.64% on last year and slightly…

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has cleared Rs 239.45 crore for two hill-road upgradations in Himachal Pradesh under…

Cost overruns on India’s centrally monitored infrastructure projects have reached Rs 4,92,752 crore, according to the Ministry of Statistics and…

Telangana has released Rs 2,278.14 crore for the Adilabad joint user airfield, but the fine print matters before anyone plans…

The Kosi-Mechi link project in north Bihar is running at 8.5 per cent physical progress on its main canal contract…

Andhra Pradesh has finally put money behind a barrage that sat stuck for the better part of five decades. The…

Uttar Pradesh has cleared four greenfield expressways in a single cabinet sitting, and the combined scope is large enough to…

Ground work on the Umroi (Shillong) airport runway extension is due to begin within weeks: the tender is complete, the…

The Cabinet has cleared a third and fourth railway track between Ballari and Guntakal, and for contractors the headline number…

Here is the DesiMachines desk round-up for 24 Jul 2026 — the live tenders and developments that matter to anyone…

India has 5,580 km of national high-speed corridors physically under construction right now, out of 10,389 km awarded so far.…

Here is the DesiMachines desk round-up for 22 Jul 2026 — the live tenders and developments that matter to anyone…

Here is the DesiMachines desk round-up for 21 Jul 2026 — the live tenders and developments that matter to anyone…

Monday closed with no big machine launch and no new central Cabinet clearance, but three state-level road and plant pipelines…

Odisha rural road projects just got a funding line that runs to 2029-30: Rs 32,067 crore, cleared by the state…

India’s construction equipment market is running two speeds at once this week: retail demand is soft, but the machines keep…

Three threads ran through India’s construction-equipment week: fresh highway money from Delhi, a demand forecast that points sharply upward, and…

Last updated: August 2026 Goods and Services Tax (GST) on most construction and earthmoving equipment in India is 18%. That…

India’s machine buyers just got a long-range demand signal worth reading. A new report from the Confederation of Indian Industry…

The Cabinet cleared two elevated highway corridors in Varanasi on 15 July, worth Rs 25,445.96 crore between them. For equipment…

The pattern is hard to miss this month. Inside two weeks, two equipment makers have put fresh money into building…

Last updated: July 2026. If you are pricing a new excavator or backhoe this quarter, the numbers around the machine…

LiuGong has more than doubled the size of its Indian factory, and for anyone shopping for a wheel loader or…

Two threads ran through India’s construction-equipment market this fortnight: a fat public-works pipeline, and a steady push to build more…

When the government launched Make in India in 2014, construction equipment was exactly the kind of industry it was aimed…

ACE and Japan's KATO have put ₹200 crore and a Haryana plant behind their crane joint venture. What it means…

Key facts The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved two NHAI corridors worth Rs 14,114.81 crore on 1 July…

Key facts India CE sales fell ~2% to 1,36,995 units in FY26 (from 1,40,191 in FY25), per ICEMA (data released…

Key facts Komatsu India (KIPL) and SMFG India Credit (SMICC) launched a dedicated excavator finance scheme on 5 June 2026…

Key facts HD Construction Equipment launched a new 20-ton Develon-brand crawler excavator, unveiled to dealers at its Pune, India plant(announced 24 Jun…

Key Facts: Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) won a Rs 2,977 crore contract from NMDC to build buffer stockpiles and…

Key Facts GHV Infra Projects has won a roughly Rs 213 crore order for railway maintenance and freight infrastructure in…

Key Facts Patel Engineering, with a JV partner, received a Rs 126.37 crore Letter of Acceptance for the Tasgaon Lift…

Key facts: UltraTech Cement has deployed 45 electric heavy-duty trucks with partner Energy In Motion for clinker haulage in north…

Key Facts Madhya Pradesh’s state cabinet, chaired by CM Mohan Yadav, approved a revised Indore Metro cost of Rs 19,472.29…

Key Facts Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid foundation stones for six national-highway projects worth Rs 3,214 crore at Shillong on…

Key Facts: Ranjit Buildcon is the lowest bidder (L1) at Rs 383.98 crore for the elevated civil package of Lucknow…

What did RVNL win? RVNL received a Letter of Acceptance worth Rs 967.92 crore (incl. 18% GST) from East Coast…

What did Godrej launch? Godrej Enterprises Group’s Material Handling Equipment (MHE) business launched what it calls India’s first Multi-Ion battery…

Key Facts: Volvo Trucks India launched the Volvo FMX Edge, a purpose-built off-road mining dump truck, on 26 May 2026…

Key Facts Ammann India has launched the CPB36, its first truck-mounted concrete boom pump, under the Ammann Elba brand (first…

A fleet-doubling bet on India’s rental demand MT&T Rentals, an India-focused Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEWP) specialist, has announced a…

Afcons Infrastructure has received a letter of award from Vadhvan Port Project Limited for the construction of a 10.14-km breakwater…

The global mining equipment market is projected to reach US$194.2 billion by 2033, with growth led by electrification and automation,…

UCO Bank and Tata Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration between the lender and the construction…

Doosan Bobcat India has launched a dedicated operator training programme for its skid-steer loaders, targeting one of the construction sector’s…

Mumbai Metro Line 2B has cleared a major construction milestone, with crews lifting and placing a 252-tonne steel span across…

The Centre has approved a Rs 1,663 crore development project for the Kollam-Theni national highway, an upgrade linking Kerala’s coast…

Patna Metro’s Blue Line recorded its seventh tunnel breakthrough on June 10, with TBM-04 completing roughly 681 metres of downline…

JSW Infrastructure has won a 30-year public-private partnership concession to develop and operate a 0.93 million TEU container terminal at…

The Union Cabinet has approved Phase 2A of the Ahmedabad Metro: a 6.032 km corridor connecting the network to the…

Larsen & Toubro signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government on June 10 committing Rs 186 billion…

The Zojila Tunnel achieved its main-tunnel breakthrough on June 9 at the eastern portal near Minamarg in Ladakh’s Kargil district,…

Afcons Infrastructure received the letter of award on June 9, 2026 from Vadhvan Port Project Limited (VPPL) for a 10.14…

Resurgent Mining has launched operations at Gainwell’s Saoner mining project, a ten-year contract targeting 10.62 million tonnes of coal output,…

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal launched the BHAVYA Portal on June 8 to coordinate development of 100 industrial parks under a…

The Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 9,585 crore, two-year scheme to replace old trucks and buses registered in Delhi-NCR,…

Caterpillar has introduced its next-generation 6040 hydraulic mining shovel, a 400-metric-tonne-class machine aimed at large mining and bulk-earthmoving fleets. The…

New Holland Construction has expanded its battery range with the 2.5-metric-tonne E25X, joining the 1.5-tonne E15X launched in 2023. The…