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The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed the final tranche of a Rs 4,657-crore loan for the Mumbai Metro Line 3 project. This completes the funding for the 33.5-kilometre underground metro line connecting key areas in Mumbai.

India is developing a home-built bullet train exceeding 250 kmph, using Vande Bharat platform technology by ICF, Chennai. The project integrates Indian tech and domestic manufacturing, funded by JICA with completed pier work and land acquisition for...

The Bharatiya Janata Party promises to expand India's bullet train network beyond Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor, initiating feasibility studies for North, South, and East India. Despite delays, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad project progresses with 100% land acqu...

Chennai's Integral Coach Factory (ICF), a unit of Indian Railways, is readying the sleeper variant Vande Bharat trains. These trains will be put into service for long-distance overnight journeys soon after the next government takes charge, the offic...

L&T Finance Holdings Ltd has signed pact with JICA and Asia Development Bank for $125 million to fund marginal farmers, women entrepreneurs, women borrowers, MSMEs, two-wheeler loans, and provide formal access to credit in rural and semi-urban India...

The Chief Representative of JICA India expressed satisfaction with the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project and the acceleration of public works through the PM Gati Shakti plan. JICA is interested in enhancing India's border road networks and parti...

The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) announced the completion of 100% land acquisition for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Rail Corridor (bullet train project) in Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The high-speed rail line c...

Milestones achieved in Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet train project in 2023 include commencement of India's first 7-Km undersea rail passage, rapid completion of a 350-meter mountain tunnel, and awarding of all civil contracts covering 508 km.

The construction of the concourse-level slab for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train station in Kalupur, Ahmedabad has been completed, according to the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL). The station will have two platforms and be s...

The Indian Railways is looking for ways to avoid paying goods and services tax (GST) on remittances it makes to its Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC) network. The tax authorities have indicated an 18% GST on these remittances. Under normal circumsta...

Over the past decade, the forest area has witnessed an increase from 17.2% in 2011 to 21.6% in 2021. Additionally, the forest protected area network has risen from 4.5% to 5.2% of the state's geographical area. As part of ongoing conservation effort...

Dr P K Mishra is leading the Indian delegation at the SFDRR-Midterm Review meeting taking place from May 18-19 at the United Nations Headquarters.

The funding includes a JPY 13 billion (approx USD 97.45 million) loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and another USD 30 million from Citi to Indusind, it said. The statement said Citi arranged the high impact social finance o...

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a loan agreement with the Indian government for the Project for Forest and Biodiversity Conservation for Climate Change Response in West Bengal. The loan's amount is JPY 9,308 million, and the...

"In terms of the money that we mobilise, the HSR project is the biggest one, but we at JICA do not consider the amount of money the only criteria to judge its importance. There are many important projects that don't cost much money and are very effe...

The objective of the project is to improve access to cancer prevention, detection, and treatment as well as human resource development and research that support cancer control system, in line with the National Program for Prevention and Control of C...

JICA has been supporting the MAHSR project by providing ODA (official development assistance) loans of JPY 350,000 million (approximately Rs 20,000 crore) in total since 2017. The objective of the project is to develop a high-frequency mass transpor...

The officials said 432 hectares of land is needed in Maharashtra for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad project, but implementing agency National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has acquired 312 hectares till now, and struggling to get the rest prima...