Category: Business

Scheduled for September 15–18 at the India Expo Centre in Greater Noida, outside the national capital, bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026 comes at an important juncture for India’s construction equipment industry. The biennial exhibition brings together construction machinery, building-material machinery, mining equipment and construction vehicles, making it one of the industry’s significant platforms for technology, products,…

There is something slightly unusual about the timing of bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026. The industry comes to one of its biggest gatherings after a difficult year for domestic sales, yet with exports providing a distinctly different signal – they are accelerating and the bigger industrial story is beginning to move beyond the market itself. India…

There was a time when a JCB backhoe loader almost needed no introduction on an Indian construction site. The yellow machine had become part of the landscape. But the landscape itself is changing, with India’s construction equipment market slipping in FY26 even as exports moved sharply higher, leaving JCB in the enviable position of remaining…

India’s infrastructure story has traditionally been written in tonnes, horsepower and machine hours. Put enough equipment on a project, keep enough people moving and, eventually, the concrete gets poured. That model still has plenty of life in it, but it is becoming harder to rely on equipment numbers alone. Projects are being delivered in tighter…

India’s defence industry has a problem that is rather less glamorous than missiles, fighter aircraft or drones: there are a lot of orders to deliver, and the industrial system has to find a way of delivering them faster. Defence production reached a record Rs 1.78 lakh crore in FY2025-26, up 15.6 percent from the previous…