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Bengaluru's suburban rail project has handed out two civil packages in two days, and both are concrete-heavy. K-RIDE issued Cemindia…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone on Friday, 30 October, for widening the Ahmedabad-Mehsana highway (State Highway 41)…

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 239.40 crore to fix the Chutupalu and Charhi ghats on the Ranchi-Hazaribagh highway, two hill…

Afcons Infrastructure has turned two Uttar Pradesh bids into signed work worth about Rs 3,469 crore: a 24.5 km stretch…

Dilip Buildcon has received the Letter of Award for the Rs 688.23 crore four-lane elevated corridor on NH-65 through Solapur…

Jharkhand's cabinet has cleared Rs 607.03 crore for the Nimdih-Kukru mega lift irrigation scheme, which will pump water out of…

Uttarakhand has put Rs 122.69 crore behind a drinking-water dam on the Ramganga river at Gairsain, and Chief Minister Pushkar…

Coal India's capital spending for April to September came in at Rs 7,966 crore, 27% up on last year and…

Uttar Pradesh has named the builders for its next four link expressways. On 27 October the state cabinet approved the…

Uttar Pradesh has approved Rs 182.16 crore for a raised embankment on the left bank of the Gomti in Lucknow,…

Uttarakhand's cabinet has decided that road and bridge works in the state will move on a single approval instead of…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid foundation stones for 33 Delhi Jal Board projects worth Rs 6,114.11 crore on Thursday,…

Haryana has cleared 13 sewer, sewage-treatment and drinking-water works worth Rs 399.85 crore, spread from Panchkula and Ambala down to…

Essar Ports has the Letter of Award for a Rs 2,276.06 crore multipurpose cargo terminal at Tuna Tekra, Kandla, issued…

Andhra Pradesh now has its own number under Green Energy Corridor Phase 3. The Centre has cleared Rs 21,838 crore…

The road transport ministry has used its new catastrophic failure clause for the first time, against two highway developers whose…

Shivalaya Construction now owns the project company for ERES-47, the new 765 kV corridor that runs from Nawada in Bihar…

LCC Projects has won a Rs 151.57 crore engineering, procurement and construction order under Gujarat's Sauni Yojana to carry water…

National highway projects awarded in the first half of FY27 rose 62.9 per cent to 2,236.3 km, according to MoSPI's…

Chhattisgarh PWD bridge tenders worth Rs 243.81 crore have been cleared: the public works department's tender committee approved bids on…

Vascon Engineers has a Rs 198 crore letter of acceptance from State Bank of India to build its learning and…

Chennai's Rs 3,108.55 crore ring main project moved from paper to site on 14 October, when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister…

Ahluwalia Contracts (India) has won a Rs 310 crore order to build six blocks at Bennett University in Greater Noida,…

Bihar's cabinet cleared Rs 1,412.65 crore of water and power works on Monday, 12 October. Most of it goes to…

Odisha's cabinet met on 13 October and approved a Rs 500 crore programme to rebuild urban storm-water drains over five…

National highway contractors will keep getting paid for the bitumen and diesel price shock until 31 December 2026. The Ministry…

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

Brahmaputra Infrastructure has a letter of acceptance for a Rs 89.73 crore bridge over the River Ravi in Punjab, won…

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

NCC Ltd has won a Rs 1,286.03 crore road package from Hyderabad Growth Corridor Ltd (HGCL), and the number that…

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

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…

NHAI has picked out 17 national highway jobs that were won at more than 15 per cent below the official…

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

Maharashtra's Public Works Department has issued a Rs 10,502.36 crore administrative approval for the eastern arm of the Pune Ring…

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.…

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

A Rs 17,167 crore port sanction has landed in Tamil Nadu, and the number equipment buyers should read is not…

Two railway projects the Kashmir Valley had been told to expect are off the table. For anyone running plant in…

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

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…

Assam's cabinet cleared a Rs 11,000 crore cement investment on Thursday, and for anyone running iron in the Northeast the…

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 Railway Board has put a number on one of the eight rail multitracking projects the Union Cabinet cleared earlier…

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…

Rail Vikas Nigam finally has the paperwork it was waiting on. East Coast Railway issued the state-run builder a Letter…

Indian Railways has sanctioned Rs 133.2295 crore for a four-lane road over bridge on the Udhna Ukai Songadh section in…

Adani Power broke ground on Sunday for a 3,200 MW coal-fired station at Chapar in Assam's Dhubri district, a Rs…

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

A right-to-information reply from the road transport ministry has finally put a number on what anyone who has driven the…

A 5.8 km road does not usually get its own story. This one earns it on price. The Centre has…

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

The Railway Board has cleared Rs 383.78 crore to build a Vande Bharat coach maintenance depot at Tatanagar. For anyone…

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

Gainwell Group's equipment arm, InfraServe Global, used bauma CONEXPO India to launch five machines in a single day. Four of…

Uttar Pradesh has sanctioned a short, expensive piece of expressway, and the per-kilometre number is what fleet owners in Bundelkhand…

Three OEMs launched machines at bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026 this week and every one of them ran on diesel. SANY…

Volvo Construction Equipment has put the EC650 mining excavator on sale in India, announcing the machine at bauma CONEXPO INDIA…

India's highway tendering field has just lost one of its larger bidders for three years. NHAI has extended the debarment…

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

Maharashtra has sanctioned Rs 343.99 crore for a short stretch of district road north of Nashik and a new interchange…

Haryana has cleared five city bypasses carrying an estimated Rs 9,700 crore, and for anyone running road plant in the…

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…

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…

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

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…

A thermal power station in Bihar has just handed the railway construction market its clearest three-year job of the month.…

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

The road ministry has sanctioned Rs 2,077.18 crore to four-lane a 31.02 km stretch of NH-327 through the Siliguri Corridor.…

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

Madhya Pradesh's cabinet has cleared a revised cost for the Western Bhopal Bypass, and the headline increase is the least…

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

The road ministry is handing the job of checking highway construction quality to an outsider. Engineers India Limited, a consultancy…

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

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 840.41 crore to upgrade two stretches of NH-365BB in Andhra Pradesh, running to 45.09 km…

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

Uttar Pradesh sanctioned a second greenfield expressway this week, and it costs less per kilometre than anything the state has…

Larsen and Toubro has picked up the India marketing and service rights for BOMAG's road milling machines, soil stabilisers and…

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

Uttar Pradesh has finally put a price on the Ganga Expressway's northern arm. On 25 August the state cabinet cleared…

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

Ceigall India and Sushee Infra & Mining have taken a Rs 704.70 crore letter of acceptance from the road ministry…

A greenfield steel plant is one of the few jobs that keeps a contractor's whole yard busy for three years…

Power Grid Corporation has won the right to build one of Gujarat's biggest renewable evacuation schemes, and the machine work…

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…

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…

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

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

Updated 9 October 2026: SEPC has now signed the contract agreement with SAIL-IISCO for this package and disclosed it to…

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…

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

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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