Navi Mumbai based Reliance Infrastructure-controlled Reliance Naval and Engineering signed a master ship repair agreement with the U.S. Navy. In January this year, the Reliance Shipyard at Pipavav in the western state of Gujarat was qualified by the U.S. Navy to perform complex repair and alternation services for its Seventh...
India Appoints New Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
According to an official order issued by the Government of India, renowned scientist Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas has been appointed as the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Vyas, who is currently director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), has been appointed...
India's Immigrants Have Built a Hospitality Industry in the U.S.
Starting as far back as the 1940s, Indian immigrants steadily began building hospitality industry that their children and grandchildren have joined. Half the country’s motels are now owned by Americans that originated from India. A majority of these owners are from India's western state of Gujarat. The first Gujarati hotelier...
Indian Scientists Discover a New Planet
Professor Abhijit Chakraborty and a team at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, in India's western state of Gujarat, has discovered a super-Neptune size planet around a Sun-like star. The research was published online in the Astronomical Journal of the American Astronomical Society. The planet which will be known as EPIC 211945201b...
India to Set Up World's Largest Solar Farm
The Government of Gujarat, a state in the western part of India, approved setting up a 5 gigawatt solar farm at the Dholera Special Investment Region. The project will contribute significantly toward Prime Minister Modi's target of producing 175 gigawatt of electricity through renewable energy sources by 2022. The solar...
Larsen & Toubro to Supply Steam Generators to NPCIL
Mumbai, India-based engineering and construction firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) won a $124 million contract from state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), to supply steam generators and end shields for its 700 MWe Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors. Commenting on the order, Shailendra Roy, director of Power, Heavy Engineering...