All above board | Kolkata port's survival blues

has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Shipping for setting up a new deep-draft port at Sagar Island in West Bengal through a public-private partnership.The ministry was approved to appoint transaction advisers and legal consultants, initiate ...

(i) setting up a new major port at Sagar Island in West Bengal through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode by following the extant procedures for project appraisal/approval, including obtaining environmental clearances, etc. (ii) appointing ...

The 612 Indians on the list of those who have invested in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands include two MPs, a former royal and top industrialists. RITU SARIN puts together details of 20 among them SONU LALCHAND MIRCHANDANI Mirchandani ...

The Finance Minister, in his Budget presentation for 2013-14, announced the Centres decision to support construction of a port at Sagar Island in West Bengal. The island, located about 50...

There was a time say, three hundred years ago when our sleepy bay awoke to feel the weight of ocean-going vessels sailing up and down in ever increasing numbers. From Singapore upto Calcutta and down to Chennai this load kept growing with ...

Allen & Gledhill has advised The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd (HSBC) and The Bank of New York Mellon Singapore Branch (BNYM) in respect of Auric Pacific Group Ltd's establishment of a S$500 million (US$401.7m) multicurrency medium ...

The Central Inland Water Corporation (CIWTC) must deploy its barges to Kolkata port for ferrying cargo from large ships, which cannot call at the port. This suggestion was reportedly made by the Rajya Sabha Standing Committee on Port and Shipping in ...

Incessant rain starts: Security of 8.3m people in Bangladesh-India-Myanmar coasts threatened: Operation at sea-airports closed . Special Correspondent Hundreds of thousands of people are being evacuated from coastal areas of Bangladesh, threatened ...

Land prices are set to soar in the sleepy coastal village of Dugarajapatnam in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district after it was chosen by the Union cabinet as the location for one of two new government-controlled ports. This will be the second Union ...