Beyond the Buzz

28 Mar 2026 CW Team

For an industry tasked with building the future, construction has an uneasy relationship with it. India is entering what many describe as a once-in-a-generation build cycle. “What we have not constructed in the last 200 years, we are going to construct in the next 20 years,” observed Naushad Panjwani, Chairman, Mandarus Partners. The scale is unprecedented. The urgency is undeniable. And yet, the sector continues to lag, held back not by lack of technology, but by something far more entrenched: Mindset.

Industry’s real faultline

Very quickly, the conversation moved beyond familiar territory – AI, BIM, digital twins – and zeroed in on a deeper issue: fragmentation. Subodh Dixit, former director, Shapoorji Pallonji, articulated it with clarity...

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Infrastructure Urban

07 May 2026

Vedanta Reports Record Profit in FY26

Vedanta reported its best-ever financial performance in FY26, with profit after tax of Rs 250.96 billion and revenue of Rs 1.74 trillion, supported by operational excellence across businesses. The company delivered nearly 50 per cent total shareholder return and declared a dividend of Rs 34 per share.Vedanta said its net debt-to-EBITDA improved to 0.95x, strengthening financial flexibility. Its demerger, effective 1 May 2026, is aimed at unlocking value by creating focused businesses across aluminium, oil and gas, power, iron and steel, zinc, copper, nickel and ferro alloys.Vedanta Aluminium p..

KEC Wins Orders Worth Rs 10.02 Billion

KEC International, an RPG Group company and global infrastructure EPC major, has secured new orders worth Rs 10.02 billion across its key businesses.In Transmission and Distribution, the company has won orders for projects in India and the Americas. These include ±500 kV HVDC transmission lines from a private developer in Western India, 132 kV cabling works from a steel producer in Eastern India, and the supply of towers, hardware and poles in the Americas.The renewables business has secured an order for a 100+ MW wind project in Southern India from a private developer. In transportation, KEC..

Hindustan Zinc Opens Cath Lab in Udaipur

Hindustan Zinc recently inaugurated a state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory at Rabindranath Tagore Hospital, Udaipur. The facility was inaugurated by Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh, in the presence of local MLAs, RNT Hospital leadership and senior Hindustan Zinc officials.The Cath Lab follows an MoU signed earlier between Hindustan Zinc and RNT Hospital for the redevelopment and upgradation of the hospital into a future-ready, multi-speciality healthcare facility. Equipped with advanced cardiac technology, it will support minimally invasiv..