On July 22, India launched a 3.8 ton satellite destined for the Moon. Lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, which means "moon vehicle" in Sanskrit, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 2:43 p.m., Monday local time (5:13 am ET). If the...
Alstom Exports Driverless Trains Made in India
Australia’s first fully-automated rail service, the newly launched North West Line by Sydney Metro, has been made in India. The new-generation metro trains were manufactured by French multinational company Alstom in Sri City, an integrated business city located in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, thirty-five miles north of Chennai....
Canada's Brookfield to Acquire Two Wind Farms in India
Canada's Brookfield Asset Management will acquire two wind farms from Hyderabad, India-based Axis Energy Ventures for $75 million The deal will be Brookfield’s first direct acquisition in the renewable energy space in India. In 2017, Brookfield acquired Missouri- and California-based SunEdison’s TerraForm Global Inc, a 300-megawatt portfolio in India as...
Andhra Pradesh Seeks International Collaborations for Aquaculture
To improve aquaculture, the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh's Fisheries Department held discussions with organizations from Singapore, Netherlands, Vietnam, and other countries, to establish collaborations for knowledge-sharing and technology transfer. Teams from these countries visited the State and held talks on forging a joint partnership in deep sea fishing as...
India to Set Up 21 New Nuclear Reactors by 2031
Currently, India has 22 power reactors in operation at seven plant sites with a combined capacity of 6,780 MWe. It now expects to bring 21 new nuclear power reactors with a combined generating capacity of 15,700 MWe into operation by 2031, Jitendra Singh, the country's minister of state for the...
Indonesian Firm to Invest $3.5 Billion in India's Paper Industry
Indonesian paper and pulp company Asian Pulp and Paper Group will set up not just India's but probably the world's largest paper mill in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh. At $3.5 billion this facility promises to be one of India's largest FDIs in a greenfield project. The facility will produce 5 million tons...