ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or IBC - Part 57: Forging firm that supplies Tata, M&M, JCB. Nobody talks about it enoughFor over four decades, one company has been making crankshafts quietly and precisely, supplying customers from Tata Motors to Liebherr to M...
06 May, 2026, 10.44 PM IST
Soon Gandhi, Vajpayee to come alive in AI avatar at PM Museum in DelhiVisitors to Delhi's Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya will soon interact with AI avatars of Mahatma Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This initiati...
26 Apr, 2026, 10.31 AM IST
Rites seeks new financing to expand Africa's access to Indian locomotivesThe Railway navratna has recently started exploring overseas markets for India's existing diesel locomotives after modifying them.
21 Nov, 2025, 12.24 AM IST
2-0 Modi's manufacturing moment: From locomotives to aerospace, India's ambitions take flightIndia's manufacturing prowess in locomotive and aerospace components is taking shape on the world stage. The inauguration of the Dahod loco...
27 May, 2025, 02.56 PM IST
Alstom delivers 500th electric locomotive for Railways, cutting operational costs and congestion under ‘Make in India’ initiativeAlstom delivered the 500th fully India-made electric locomotive to Indian Railways from its Bihar facility. This milestone, part of a €3.5 ...
25 Mar, 2025, 11.14 PM IST
Railways raises FY25 loco production target by 27 per centAccording to the latest plan, 1,300 WAG 9H locomotives will be made annually in FY26 and FY27, while 200 units of the WAP 7 variant will be...
13 Mar, 2024, 11.30 PM IST
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal flags off 3000 HP Cape Gauge locomotive for export to MozambiqueIndian Railways is exporting the first batch of two locomotives as part of a total order of six 3000 HP Cape Gauge locomotives and 90 stain...
10 Mar, 2021, 10.10 PM IST
Indian Railways operationalises first 12,000 hp electric loco manufactured locally by AlstomBuilt by French company Alstom under the government's Make in India programme at the Railways' Madhepura factory in Bihar, these engines ar...
20 May, 2020, 01.55 PM IST
10 engines per week: Indian Railways' Chittaranjan Locomotive factory resets world recordChittaranjan Locomotive Works, located at Asansol in West Bengal, earned an entry in Limca Book of Records for producing 402 electrical loc...
02 Mar, 2020, 01.24 PM IST
This new Indian Railways engine will make your journey faster at nearly 200 kmphThe locomotive has been developed by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) in West Bengal.
13 Aug, 2019, 05.08 PM IST
Siemens supplies propulsion system to Indian RailwaysThe Indian Railways is upgrading its electric locomotives from 6,000 HP to 9,000 HP as part of its rail electrification initiative, Siemens...
12 Jun, 2019, 07.45 PM IST
Siemens equipping Indian Railways' electrification initiative"The advanced technology aims to save traction energy cost, thereby reducing fuel expenses and carbon emissions," the company said in a rel...
12 Jun, 2019, 05.45 PM IST
Adani Ports delivers 50 US-made GE locomotives to RailwaysAll 50 locomotives were manufactured by GE Electromotive Division in the US and imported to Mundra port.
26 Dec, 2018, 03.25 PM IST
India receives first GE locomotive under $2.5 billion dealGE Transportation today took another important step forward in its partnership with Indian Railways when the first of 1,000 diesel-electric...
11 Oct, 2017, 04.14 PM IST
Railways to export locomotives, train sets worth Rs 680 crore to Sri LankaAll locomotives and train sets would be equipped with state-of-the-art technology and manufactured in Varanasi and Chennai, said a senior R...
17 Apr, 2017, 12.39 PM IST
Chinese firm exports transistor chips for Indian locomotivesThe China-made chips are currently used on the 7,200-kilowatt electric locomotives that power it's high-speed trains.
15 Nov, 2016, 04.52 PM IST
A Darjeeling joyride in a British gardenIndian government had sold the locomotive to Hesston Steam Museum in 1960, not realizing what its worth would be 50 years later when it was...
20 Sep, 2014, 04.03 PM IST