U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) on Transportation with India’s Minister of Road Transport and Highways, and of Shipping, Nitin Gadkari. Minister Gadkari signed the MOC on behalf of the Indian Government, which will establish a Transportation Partnership among the U.S. Department of Transportation and...
U.S. and India to Develop 3 Smart Cities
At a meeting between India’s urban development minister, M. Venkaiah Naidu and visiting secretary of commerce Penny Pritzker, the leaders decided to establish a task force to jointly develop three smart cities with a mandate of preparing the roadmap within three months. The cities selected are Allahabad in the northern...
India’s First Nuclear Sub Begins Sea Trials
India's first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant (Sanskrit: Ari = enemy; hanta = to destroy) was flagged off for sea trials from Visakhapatnam harbor - on the eastern coast in the state of Andhra Pradesh - by defense minister Manohar Parrikar. The Arihant, is a 112 meter 6,000 ton SSBN, or...