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KEC International has taken its first order for a 765 kV transmission line that carries power out of a pumped…

Gujarat has approved Rs 1,331.30 crore to pump water from the Madhuban Reservoir uphill to 46 tribal villages in Valsad…

Uttar Pradesh has put Rs 328.67 crore behind one state highway in Mainpuri district. On 9 October the state cabinet…

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu wants Rs 2,000 crore of work done in Amaravati every month. Contractors finished…

The Reserve Bank of India raised its repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% on 7 October 2026 and…

Wheeled construction equipment registrations jumped 38% in September 2026 to 6,486 units, the best month of the financial year so…

The Centre has cleared Rs 508.66 crore to strengthen and selectively widen 148.30 km of NH-14 and NH-114 in Birbhum,…

Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has cleared Rs 2,125.55 crore to upgrade 196 km of NH-351G, from Nageshri through…

Escorts Kubota sold 795 construction machines in September 2026, nearly double the 413 it sold in September 2025. Before reading…

Chhattisgarh road projects worth Rs 672.22 crore are about to move: the public works department has approved tenders for 24…

The government says no fuel retailer may cap diesel sales. That came on Thursday, 1 October, after Jio-bp and Nayara…

Gurugram Metro Phase 2 cleared its last state hurdle on 1 October: the Haryana government approved the Rs 1,662 crore…

The Union Cabinet has cleared Green Energy Corridor Phase 3, and the number that matters to equipment owners is not…

Action Construction Equipment has won an order to supply 74 four-wheel-drive backhoe loaders to the Border Roads Organisation. The company…

A 500 MW solar block in the Bikaner desert has just turned into a contract, and the part worth reading…

Madhya Pradesh has cleared the four-laning of the 105.01 km Damoh Katni four lane road, and the number worth your…

The central government is sitting on roughly Rs 17.3 lakh crore of infrastructure work it has budgeted for and not…

Indian Railways has cleared Rs 122 crore to double a six-kilometre stretch between Barbil and Bolanikhadan in Odisha's Keonjhar district.…

JCB will have two chairmen from 1 October. George Bamford joins his father, Lord Bamford, as joint chairman of the…

Down 2 per cent last year, up 8 to 10 per cent this year, and thinner margins all the way…

Chennai is about to put Rs 150 crore into relaying 780 damaged roads, and the headline number flatters it. Spread…

The Railway Board has sanctioned the Arakkonam Renigunta railway line third and fourth tracks at Rs 1,936.46 crore, putting a…

Read the headline and the Burari Road upgrade sounds like a resurfacing job. Read the split and it isn't. Of…

Indian Railways has sanctioned a four-lane road over bridge at Alkapuri in Vadodara at Rs 166.5 crore. For anyone who…

Skipper Limited has booked another Rs 797 crore of transmission work. For anyone running earthmoving plant, the useful question is…

India's biggest contractors are booking work faster than they are willing to say where it is. Kalpataru Projects International told…

Delhi has cleared the design for a 5.5 km six-lane elevated corridor on Maa Anandmayee Marg, running from the Outer…

The Madhya Pradesh cabinet cleared proposals worth Rs 13,790 crore on Tuesday. Read the list rather than the headline and…

Uttar Pradesh has signed off the money on 36 state road projects worth more than Rs 3,095 crore, and the…

NHAI has written one rulebook for the corridors that sit between a full expressway and an ordinary national highway. Two…

IndianOil has put a sanctioned number behind a 425 km gas line running from Kerala into southern Tamil Nadu. For…

Karnataka has cleared a Rs 6,925 crore multipurpose port and shipbuilding centre at Manki in Uttara Kannada district, along with…

Welspun Enterprises told the exchanges on Sunday that its subsidiary has picked up two sewer rehabilitation orders in Ahmedabad worth…

Karnataka's cabinet met in Mangaluru on Friday 18 September and cleared projects worth Rs 32,611 crore. Roads took the biggest…

Indian Railways has sanctioned a new 38.21 km broad-gauge line between Mukutban and Gadchandur at Rs 493 crore, a greenfield…

JCB India put ten new machines on its stand at bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026 in Greater Noida, and the three…

KEC International says it has won Rs 1,303 crore of new orders. For anyone who owns machines in India, the…

Tata Hitachi has opened a new warehouse at its Kharagpur plant in West Bengal, and the telling part is what…

Andhra Pradesh has put Rs 300 crore behind 431 km of road work in the Godavari districts ahead of the…

Meghalaya picked up Rs 1,010.95 crore of fresh project starts on Monday. Read the split rather than the headline and…

Maharashtra has released Rs 1,800 crore to the Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Kumbh Mela Authority. For anyone running machines in north Maharashtra, the…

The road ministry has cleared Rs 1,042.62 crore to widen and strengthen six roads in West Bengal, covering 194.10 km…

Dilip Buildcon has been picked to build and then run an LPG pipeline from Paradip in Odisha to Raipur in…

Uttar Pradesh's first double decker elevated road has cleared its first funding hurdle in Greater Noida, and for anyone who…

NHAI has moved a payment milestone out of the engineering department and into the nursery. Guidelines issued on Wednesday make…

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared eight railway multitracking projects on 9 September 2026, worth Rs 20,804 crore across…

Move your own excavator back from a finished site without an e-way bill and the penalty can take roughly a…

Kirby India broke ground at Manapparai, near Trichy, on 7 September for its fourth pre-engineered building plant. Two things in…

Odisha has cleared the largest borewell irrigation programme the state has attempted, and for equipment buyers it points at a…

Odisha has handed a single contractor four four-laning packages in one cabinet sitting, and the accepted bids came in roughly…

Odisha has cleared the biggest single block of transmission spending in its history, and for equipment owners in the state's…

Wheeled construction equipment was the fastest-growing vehicle category in India last month, and the machine that has owned the segment…

Power Grid has picked up the two biggest transmission awards of the month inside three days, and the larger of…

Ceigall India has a letter of intent for a Rs 5,300 crore transmission build in Gujarat, and the figure that…

India's machine plants are no longer building mainly for India. At the ICEMA annual session in New Delhi on 1…

A Rs 741 crore letter of intent for two Mumbai residential towers will not make the front page next to…

Skipper Limited says it has picked up Rs 1,305 crore of new transmission and distribution orders across Indian and overseas…

Uttar Pradesh has cleared Rs 272.25 crore to build the trunk infrastructure for an 811-acre manufacturing and logistics cluster beside…

Adani Energy Solutions has won a Rs 4,700 crore transmission build in western Maharashtra. For anyone running earthmoving or lifting…

Madhya Pradesh has cleared the four-laning of the Seoni-Balaghat road, and the figure travelling with the story is worth reading…

Delhi's building rulebook for the next two decades is now live, and one clause inside it matters more to equipment…

India has signed for the money on a Chennai water and sewerage overhaul that will put more than 170 kilometres…

Maharashtra has re-approved Mumbai Metro Line 10 at Rs 8,535.49 crore and bolted a Ghodbunder Road widening job onto the…

EMS Limited has converted a Varanasi sewerage bid into a firm order, and disclosed three more lowest-bidder positions in Rajasthan…

A Delhi contractor who plans to buy another diesel pickup for site duty now has a deadline instead of a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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

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

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…

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…

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

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.…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

If you are pricing a new excavator or backhoe this quarter, the numbers around the machine have gone quiet in…

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

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

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…

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