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Shine Jacob is a senior journalist, with experience of over 15 years across print and electronic media. He has covered a wide range of sectors, including energy, infrastructure, logistics, and the automobile industry. He has previously worked with the Times of India, Moneycontrol, Livemint, Cogencis, in addition to regional Malayalam media. Currently based in Chennai, he has also worked as a business journalist in Kolkata and New Delhi.
Shine Jacob is a senior journalist, with experience of over 15 years across print and electronic media. He has covered a wide range of sectors, including energy, infrastructure, logistics, and the automobile industry. He has previously worked with the Times of India, Moneycontrol, Livemint, Cogencis, in addition to regional Malayalam media. Currently based in Chennai, he has also worked as a business journalist in Kolkata and New Delhi.
Several food chains - including McDonald's, KFC, Burger King, and Haldiram - have started supplying to bio fuel firms
SAIL Chairman Anil Kumar Chaudhary has been discharged from the AIIMS Trauma Centre
The transporter wants premium spectrum for free; govt reluctant to lose revenue
CNG may turn out to be the key to India's automobile future and the dream of increasing the share of natural gas
Russian Railways will come out with a report on the speed upgrade of the Nagpur-Secunderabad section by September. India and Russia had signed a memorandum of understand for this in December 2015
FM Sitharaman in her Budget speech on July 5 had said the government may use private investment in railway tracks
After the success of PMUY, LPG coverage in India increased from 56% in 2014 to 94.3% by April 2019
The incentives for EVs came even as the government increased duties on petrol and diesel
Private investments are being pushed thanks to the Rs 50-trillion investment required between 2018 and 2030, which the government would find difficult to generate by itself
A big thrust has been given to the ease of living for the middle and lower-middle classes, said Goyal
Crude prices have fallen from around $71.34 a barrel in 2018 to $66 a barrel this year
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget proposes pan-India transportation card for bus, rail and waterways.
To push the agenda for resource efficiency, the Survey has asked for the formulation of a national policy on the same
According to the report, the existing track structure in India, having 880 mega pascal (MPa) tensile strength, is "not adequate" for 25-tonne axle load operations
In the current gas allocation policy regime, city gas has the priority in the allocation of cheap domestic gas, followed by the fertiliser sector
The measure has been necessitated because the Centre anticipates a shortfall in tax revenues this year
As part of the 100-day strategy, the board is also planning re-development of at least 50 stations out of a total of 500
In its strategy for New India released in 2018, Niti Aayog had advocated for more private participation ownership of locomotives and rolling stock and modernising railway stations
In the first of the two-part series, Shine Jacob analyses how a GE factory at Marhowra became a 'Make in India' flagship
Cairn, oil and gas arm of the Vedanta group, is producing at a cost of close to $8 a barrel