Winners - JCB

15 Dec 2014 CW Team

UK-based JC Bamford Excavators started its operations in India in 1979. JCB India is considered among the fastest-growing companies in the Indian earthmoving and construction equipment industry. With three operational world class manufacturing facilities - one in Haryana (the world´s largest backhoe loader plant) and two in Pune - in November this year, JCB inaugurated two more facilities in Jaipur. The opening of the factories comes as JCB celebrates 35 years of manufacturing in India, where it now has five facilities. In India, it offers an extensive range of 26 variants in seven product lines - backhoe loaders, wheeled loaders, excavators, skid steer loaders, telehandlers, compactors and pick-and-carry cranes. The company contributed to 30 per cent of the UK-based company´s global sales last year. The global revenue was $4.1 billion last year and had a presence in 150 countries. For the calendar year 2013, the company reported a turnover of Rs 5,200 crore.

Infrastructure Urban

14 Jan 2026

ICEGATE–LPMS Integration Launched at ICP Agartala to Boost Trade

Surjit Bhujabal, Special Secretary and Member (Customs), Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC), inaugurated the integration of the Indian Customs Electronic Gateway with the Land Port Management System (ICEGATE–LPMS) at the Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Agartala, Tripura. The initiative marks an important milestone in CBIC’s ongoing efforts to drive comprehensive digital transformation in cross-border trade facilitation.The ICEGATE–LPMS integration enables real-time, two-way exchange of data between ICEGATE and the Land Port Management System, creating a seamless digital ..

Environment Minister Reviews NIRANTAR to Boost MoEFCC Coordination

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav chaired a meeting of the National Institute for Research & Application of Natural Resources to Transform, Adapt and Build Resilience (NIRANTAR), a collaborative platform bringing together institutions under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), with the objective of strengthening coordination and institutional collaboration.Highlighting the strategic importance of natural resources, Yadav said that contemporary geopolitics is increasingly shaped by access to and utilisation of natural reso..

IndiaAI, UPDESCO Sign MoU to Boost AI Ecosystem in Uttar Pradesh

In a major step towards strengthening the artificial intelligence ecosystem in Uttar Pradesh, the Digital India Corporation’s Independent Business Division, IndiaAI Mission, has exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uttar Pradesh Development Systems Corporation (UPDESCO), Lucknow. The initiative is being implemented under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.The MoU was exchanged between Anurag Yadav, Principal Secretary, IT & Electronics Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh, and Abhishek Singh, Chief Executive Officer, India..