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Infrastructure Projects in India

  • Sri Lanka's cabinet set to discuss road, rail link between India, Sri Lanka

    INDIA, 2015/09/30 Sri Lanka's new cabinet will any minute at this time discuss a proposition by India to establish a sea bridge and an underwater tunnel to connect India's southern Tamil Nadu to the island country. Cabinet Spokesperson and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne told Xinhua that the Indian government had discussed the proposition with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during his recent trip to India and the matter would be put for discussion to the cabinet any minute at this time. India has proposed to construct a sea bridge and an underwater tunnel for both road and rail transport that would connect Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu with Sri Lanka through the Palk Strait.
  • The port would lead to a new chapter in India-Iran relations, says Hassan Rouhani

    INDIA, 2015/05/07 Notwithstanding US objections, India on Wednesday went ahead with the signing of an agreement with Iran for the development of the strategically significant Chabahar port which will give India sea-land access route to Afghanistan bypassing Pakistan. The pact was signed next comprehensive talks between visiting road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari with the Iranian leadership in Tehran. “The MoU (Memorandum of Considerate) was signed next the talks between the two sides,” a source said. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in his conference with Gadkari, said, “Resumption of Iran-India cooperation in the southeastern Iranian port city of Chabahar would lead to a new chapter in relations of two nations.”