China said on Wednesday that 54 people would be punished for design flaws and poor management it blamed for a fatal July crash on the nation's flagship high-speed rail network that sparked public fury

A poor neighbourhood on the western mountainside of the Colombian city of Medellin has been installed with outdoor escalators to solve the problem of people getting up and down steep terrain.

The esc

Despite official assurances of uninterrupted power supply and of meeting any shortfall from the country's northern grid, Kashmiris are enduring yet another winter without power. Many towns in Kashmir

India needs to develop its infrastructure and increase production efficiency in the oil and gas sector to secure its long-term energy security, a leading industry lobby said on Sunday.

"Domestic oil

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday expressed concern over the delays in the grant of various clearances for large infrastructure projects worth Rs 39,424 crore in the southern region, which h

Even as security hackles are raised in New Delhi over alleged Chinese muscle-flexing over disputed territory, whether land or sea, India does not appear to be averse to a greater Chinese role in its o

GVK Power and Infrastructure, the flagship company of Hyderabad-based GVK group, is planning to have 7,500 MW thermal power generation capacity by 2016-17, a senior company official said.

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India may miss a $500 billion target for infrastructure investment for the five years through 2012, but will likely create at least two $10 billion debt funds for the sector in the next few months, Mo

Australia's second-largest city Melbourne has been rated the world's best city to live in, and Mumbai one of the worst, according to a new survey.

In the survey of 140 cities around the globe, Melbo

Simple marble gravestones lie flat in the grounds of St Andrew's Church in Bandra, one of the oldest Roman Catholic places of worship in Mumbai.

The names on the tombs bear witness to the city's Port