Amalgamation of diverse workstyles, will enhance productivity & output

27 Nov 2021 CW Team

The year 2020 presented challenges no one could have anticipated. The national lockdown brought all economic activities to a standstill. We saw some recovery in the latter part of 2020 and early 2021. But then came the devastating second wave in March 2021. With all our learnings from 2020, we were able to prevent a further slowdown in 2021. However, it took all the time till July 2021 to see an improvement in the real-estate sector.

Recovery in the market has already begun and the year 2022 will set the stage for growth Confidence in the market is being led by fast rate of vaccination, growth in economic activity and fall in COVID cases. India has given 1 billion vaccine doses. Next, economic activity is in full gear with GDP growth pegged at 9.5 per cent for 2021-22. Things are looking bright for the economy and this will percolate down to the Indian real-estate sector too.

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Infrastructure Transport

07 Apr 2026

Tunnelling Begins for Thane, Borivali twin tunnel project

Tunnelling work has commenced for the 11.84-km Thane–Borivali Twin Tunnel, set to be India’s longest urban road tunnel, marking a key milestone in Mumbai’s infrastructure development.As per a post shared by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority on social media platform X, the tunnel boring machine (TBM) ‘Nayak’—the country’s largest single-shield hard rock TBM for an urban tunnel—was launched by Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday. The event was attended by Eknath Shinde and Sunetra Pawar, among other dignitaries. A second TBM, ‘Arjuna’, is expected to be launched so..

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Government Cancels Auction Of Eleven Critical Mineral Blocks

The government has cancelled the auction of 11 critical and strategic mineral blocks after receiving a poor investor response and failing to attract a sufficient number of qualified bidders. The decision represents a setback to plans to ramp up domestic exploration and production of critical minerals amid global supply chain disruptions and rising demand for materials used in clean energy and advanced technologies. The mines ministry issued an annulment notice setting out the reasons for the cancellations. The annulment notice indicated that the auction process for five mineral blocks was canc..