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TBB BUREAU LANJIGARH, DEC 10, 2021 Students supported by Vedanta Limited’s Lanjigarh unit, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, have scripted a stellar victory at the 11th All India Open Karate Championship, held in Bhubaneswar recently. Hitesh Kumar Mahakud, from DAV Vedanta International School, bagged gold medal in Kata and silver medal in Kumite form of Karate in the ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 10, 2021 Luxury motorcycle brand Ducati on Friday announced an increase in price on all motorcycles which will be effective on ex-showroom India price, and will be introduced on January 1, 2022. The revised prices will come into effect across all models and variants of the vehicle, across the country and will be applicable on ...

TBB BUREAU GOPALPUR/BHUBANESWAR, DEC 9, 2021 Smartchem Technologies Limited (STL), a 100% subsidiary of Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (DFPCL), on Thursday performed groundbreaking ceremony and foundation stone laying of its Technical Ammonium Nitrate (TAN) complex at Gopalpur Industrial Park in Odisha. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation of the project in presence of Smartchem Technologies Limited ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, DEC 9, 2021 The employees of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL)’s Angul Unit, led by Executive Director Damodar Mittal, paid floral tributes to General Bipin Rawat and other brave souls who lost their lives in the helicopter crash at Coonoor in Tamil Nadu yesterday. As a mark of respect, the employees gathered at the Power Plant ...

TBB BUREAU NOIDA, DEC 9, 2021 Leading technology company HCL Technologies (HCL) has named Santhosh Jayaram as its Global Head of Sustainability, reaffirming the organization’s commitment to integrating sustainability as a key element of its business and growth. Jayaram’s appointment will help HCL refine and focus its existing agenda and strategy in the critical areas of Environmental, Social and Governance, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 9, 2021 KfW IPEX-Bank is providing USD82 million in financing to support Austrian companies Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH and Andritz AG in supplying products and services to the Indian market leader in stainless steel production, Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL). JSL is procuring capital equipment from Europe as part of its plan for an expansion of its ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, DEC 9, 2021 Bank of Baroda (BoB) has signed a MoU with Centrum Housing Finance Limited (CHFL) for sourcing and financing the housing loan borrowers under Co-lending Model (CLM) mechanism. The MoU was signed today by Harshadkumar T Solanki, General Manager, Mortgage and Other Retail Assets, Bank of Baroda; and Sanjay Shukla, MD and CEO of CHFL. ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 9, 2021 In a bid to create an opportunity for learning and to impart nuances of Laparoscopic Urology, the Urology Department of AIIMS-Bhubaneswar successfully conducted an observership programme in Advanced 3-D Laparoscopic Urology. The two-day programme witnessed an overwhelming response as consultants and faculties from reputed institutions of India participated in the programme. Various surgeries were ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 9, 2021 Paytm Payments Bank has gained Reserve Bank of India approval to function as a scheduled payments bank, it said on Thursday, helping it to widen its financial services operations. Paytm Payments Bank, a niche bank that cannot lend on its own, had more than 64 million savings accounts and over Rs 5,200 crore ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 9, 2021 Despite being hit by the lack of construction activities due to covid-19 for a year, the steel industry has bounced back and had reported a 25.6% growth in crude steel production in the first eight months of year 2021, Infomerics Valuation and Rating said on Thursday. According to government data, the country’s crude ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 9, 2021 Customers in Odisha have responded enthusiastically to Navi’s 100% digital, paperless app-based health insurance launched last December. With wide coverage of 125 network hospitals spread across Odisha, ranging from Shanti Memorial Hospital in Cuttack to Gupta Nursing Home in Barla, the state has emerged among the important markets for Navi Insurance, contributing close to ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 8, 2021 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) state council, in its recent letter to the Ministry of Coal, has addressed the issue of the proposed increase in coal rakes for power sector that in turn will deprive the consumers of Non-Regulated Sector (NRS) from getting sufficient coal rakes, ultimately leading to ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, DEC 8, 2021 Reliance BP Mobility Limited (RBML), operating under the brand name Jio-bp and The Mahindra Group, today announced a non-binding MoU for exploring creation of EV products and services, alongside identifying synergies in low-carbon and conventional fuels. The MoU also covers evaluating charging solutions by Jio-bp for Mahindra vehicles including electric 3 and 4 wheelers, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 8, 2021 India must complete the migration from 2G to 4G to 5G at the earliest and the roll out of 5G should be the country’s national priority to join the next-gen digital transformation bandwagon, said Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), here on Wednesday. Delivering the virtual keynote address at ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, DEC 7, 2021 Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and Abu Dhabi state-owned Chemicals Derivatives Company (TA’ZIZ) have agreed to start a more than $2 billion chemical production partnership in Ruwais, UAE. The TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and ADQ. The Ta’ziz Industrial Chemical Zone projects ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 7, 2021    Vedanta Aluminium Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has on Tuesday extended invitation to aluminium producers at the Enterprise Odisha 2021 event for partnering in its Aluminium Park project which will come up at Jharsuguda in Odisha.    Vedanta Aluminium has partnered with Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 7, 2021 India’s leading fashion and beauty destination Shoppers Stop is turning 30 and is all set to celebrate this illustrious journey with its customers. With evolving times, the brand has consistently innovated with the changing consumer dynamics to ensure an impeccable shopping experience for its customers. There is a stellar collection of defining and landmark ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 6, 2021 The Indian Captive Power Producers Association (ICPPA) in a recent representation to Ministry of Coal, Railways and Power, has sought urgent support for normalizing the coal supplies to Captive Power Plant (CPP) based industries. It has highlighted the issue of insufficient coal rake supplies to CPP based industries at levels of 40 per ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 6, 2021 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has won the prestigious Greentech Environment Award 2021 for outstanding achievements in environment protection. The award was presented to the leading steel producer of the region at the Annual Greentech Award function held in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu recently. RK Patra, CGM (SMS-I) and PC Das, GM (EMD), RSP received ...

TBB BUREAU BENGALURU, DEC 6, 2021 Leading global PC brand Acer on Monday launched its new gaming laptop ‘Predator Helios 500’ at a starting price of Rs 3,79,999 in the Indian market. The laptop comes with 11th Gen Intel Core i9 processor with up to 5.01 GHz on multiple cores, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, 64 GB of DDR4 3200 ...

TBB BUREAU TIKIRI/BHUBANESWAR, DEC 6, 2021 In line with the Government’s clarion call for Swachh Bharat Mission and to spread awareness about cleanliness, the Baphlimali Mines of Utkal Alumina, a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Limited of Aditya Birla Group, has observed a cleanliness drive to mark Swachhata Pakhwada. Through wall paintings, street plays, awareness rallies, essay and speech competitions at ...

TBB BUREAU BASEL (SWITZERLAND), DEC 6, 2021 Syngenta Group has appointed Feroz Sheikh as Chief Information and Digital Officer, effective January 1, 2022. Sheikh, based in Basel, will join the extended Syngenta Group leadership team and report to the CEO. He is currently the head of digital engineering and data science at Syngenta. Sheikh takes over from Greg Meyers, who ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, DEC 6, 2021 IIM Sambalpur organised a two-day specially designed Women Leadership Programme in its campus under its Management Development Programme (MDP) to 30 women officers of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited. The program was inaugurated by Prof. Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director IIM Sambalpur; and Keshav Rao, Director – Personnel, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited. IIM faculty members and resource persons Prof. ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 6, 2021 Post announcing the unified store ‘Amazon Fresh’ across 300+ cities, Amazon.in is now live with ‘Super Value Days’, bringing up to 45% off on grocery and household essentials, packaged foods, personal, baby and pet care and much more. Super Value Days will be live till December 07, 2021, with grocery deals starting at Re.1 ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 4, 2021 Reliance Foundation hosted several multi-location audio conferences and YouTube live sessions for thousands of farmers, livestock farmers and in-land fish farmers on Cyclone Path, Pre and post cyclone crop protection measures, precautionary measures for livestock farmers and inland fish farmers in 16 districts of Odisha with technical support of KVK Nayagarh, KVK Dhenkanal, KVK ...

TBB BUREAU RAYAGADA / BHUBANESWAR, DEC 4, 2021 India’s largest and fastest growing apparel and accessories specialty chain of Reliance Retail, TRENDS, announced the launch of its new store in Gunupur town of Rayagada district in Odisha. Trends is truly democratizing fashion in India, by strengthening its reach & connect with consumers in India – right from Metros, mini metros, ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, DEC 3, 2021 JSPL Foundation observed the International Day of Persons with Disabilities-2021 at its ‘Asha the Hope’ centre in Jindal Nagar, Angul. Various games were organised for the children with special needs, who are receiving therapeutic service at the Centre. Narayan Mohapatra, DSSO, Angul; Anita Mittal, Anindita Bandyopadhyay, Atanu Rath, Principal OPJS; K.P. Behera, CMO of ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 3, 2021 Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to realize its green energy objectives. The MoU was signed by ONGC CMD Subhash Kumar and SECI MD Suman Sharma on behalf of the two national energy companies here on Thursday. The ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 2, 2021 To attract the leading sports goods and equipment manufacturers, the Odisha government is now keen on making the sports goods manufacturing sector a priority sector and bringing a fresh policy to attract the sports, fitness and wellness sector companies, a senior official said on Thursday. Principal Secretary, Industries, Hemant Sharma said this while speaking ...

PRIYABRAT BISWAL BHUBANESWAR, DEC 2, 2021 Earning enough to sustain his five-member family was not an easy task for Nimai Charan Mohanty, a farmer from Giria Village under Rajkanika Block of Kendrapara District in Odisha. Forty-five-year old Nimai is a small farmer who holds 3.5 acres of agricultural land in which he grows paddy in Kharif season and vegetables like ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 2, 2021 A training programme on “Waste to Wealth,’ sustainable organic farming techniques was introduced at Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) recently. PK Satapathy, ED (P&A) of RSP and  Prof. Simanchalo Panigrahi, Director, NIT Rourkela were present at the inaugural function organized at Institute for Peripheral Development, Sector-20 and inaugurated the Vermicompost Unit to mark the commencement ...

TBB BUREAU KANIHA, DEC 2, 2021 NTPC Talcher Kaniha organised a two-day state level painting competition on ‘Energy Conservation’ on behalf of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency under the Union Ministry of Power. Students from classes V to X, of DAV Public School, Kendriya Vidyalaya and Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir participated in the event. The painting competition was conducted under ...

TBB BUREAU BENGALURU, DEC 2, 2021 Leading end-to-end drone solutions startup AUS acquired Algopixel Technologies, a Bengaluru-based software solution provider for drone operation management and cloud-based data processing for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition will accelerate AUS’s journey towards building robust and scalable end-to-end solutions for sectors like mining, infrastructure, land records, and precision farming. Algopixel was founded by Abhiroop ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 2, 2021 Coastal Corporation Limited today announced that it has started work on its Ethanol Plant. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik performed groundbreaking ceremony of the plant at Maringhi Village in Gajapati District of Odisha on Tuesday. Coastal Biotech Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coastal Corporation Limited will set up an ethanol project with ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 2, 2021 India’s leading digital ecosystem for consumers and merchants Paytm today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of General Training, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to train 6000 individuals over a period of three years in the rapidly growing Fintech industry. This is in continuation with Paytm’s dedication to building ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, DEC 1, 2021 JSPL Foundation, the CSR arm of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) observed the World AIDS Day-2021 at different places of Angul District. The field functionaries of JSPL Foundation, along with the representatives of Odisha State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) and Utkal Sevak Samaj sensitised the community about the consequences of HIV/AIDS and its ...

TBB BUREAU JHARSUGUDA, DEC 1, 2021 The Jharsuguda Unit of Vedanta Limited has entered into a long-term partnership with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for supplying fly-ash for construction of green highways in and around Odisha. Fly-ash being an industrial by-product generated at thermal power plants, this partnership aims at ensuring gainful utilization of industrial by-products in circular ...

TBB BUREAU CHHATRAPUR, DEC 1, 2021 In a bid to ensure improved health and well-being of communities, Gopalpur Ports Limited (GPL), under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, today inaugurated a newly constructed primary health check-up centre building at Takiria, Berhampur.  The health check-up centrewas inaugurated by Ganjam Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange in the presence of Gopalpur Port Chief Executive ...

TBB BUREAU GURUGRAM, DEC 1, 2021 CollegeDekho, India’s largest college admissions and higher education services platform, closes its Series B funding with Disrupt ADQ and QIC coming on board recently. The USD 35 million (Rs 260 crore) round has been led by Winter Capital, ETS Strategic Capital – the private equity investments arm of ETS (creator of the TOEFL tests ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 1, 2021 Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited, a leading Indian cement major and a subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Limited, has been awarded the prestigious GreenPro Ecolabelling Certificate by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), a part of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). The company, which is India’s 4th largest cement brand, is now the first ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 1, 2021 The gross GST revenue collected in the month of November 2021 is Rs 1,31,526 crore of which CGST is Rs 23,978 crore, SGST is Rs 31,127 crore, IGST is Rs 66,815 crore (including Rs 32,165 crore collected on import of goods) and Cess is Rs 9,606 crore (including Rs 653 crore collected on ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 1, 2021     Ducati presents its new clothing collection for 2022, consisting of products suitable for all types of needs, designed to meet the requirements of all motorcycle enthusiasts. Within the 2022 Apparel collection there are technical garments, conceived and intended to make riding Ducati motorcycles even more enjoyable and safer. These products are designed ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, NOV 30, 2021 Reiterating its commitment to quality TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL), a joint venture between Tata Power and Government of Odisha, observed the month of November as Quality Month with an intent to enhance level of quality awareness among the consumers and the employees.  The theme for this year’s Quality Month – Sustainability: Improving ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, NOV 30, 2021 To enhance health care service for emergency patients, the Department of Trauma and Emergency, AIIMS Bhubaneswar organised a workshop on “Basic Surgical Skills and Suturing technique”. Resident Doctors, nursing staff and healthcare workers participated in the first of its kind workshop organised in the College of Nursing Auditorium. Speaking about this Dr. Tushar S. ...

TBB BUREAU BANGALORE, NOV 30, 2021 ACER, the leading consumer technology brand, on Tuesday unveiled two new air purifiers in India – acerpure cool C2 and acerpure pro P2 – a new line of smart air purifiers that takes control of air quality with a 4-in-1 HEPA filter which removes harmful viruses, bacteria, allergens and pollutants from room making home ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, NOV 30, 2021 Gruhas Proptech LLP, promoted by serial entrepreneur Abhijeet Pai and Zerodha’s Co-founder Nikhil Kamath, joins Lumos Alternate Investment Advisors Private Limited (Lumos) as anchor investor and general partner. The joint venture Gruhas & Lumos is in the process of raising Rs. 500 crore for a real estate fund focused on structured debt, last-mile funding, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, NOV 30, 2021 India’s leading digital ecosystem for consumers and merchants Paytm today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Payments Services Ltd (PPSL) has made strides with its card-on-file tokenization or “Paytm Token Gateway”. The company has partnered with platforms such as Myntra, Oyo, Domino’s and others, while also joining hands with payment giants like Visa, Mastercard ...

TBB BUREAU BENGALURU, NOV 30, 2021  Redmi India, a sub-brand of Xiaomi India, the country’s number one smartphone and smart TV brand, on Tuesday announced the launch of its 11th gen smartphone under its Redmi Note series, Redmi Note 11T 5G. As the next-gen performer, the Redmi Note 11T 5G boasts a powerful flagship-level 6nm MediaTek Dimensity 810 chipset offering ...

TBB BUREAU BENGALURU, NOV 29, 2021 Ather Energy, India’s leading EV scooter brand, commissioned its second manufacturing facility in Hosur to cater to the growing demand of its electric scooters – the 450X and 450 Plus. The company plans to manufacture 4 lakh units per annum, a significant jump from its current capacity of 1.2 lakh units. Ather Energy had ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, NOV 29, 2021 Capri Global Capital Limited (CGCL), a leading NBFC focused on lending to MSMEs, and affordable housing finance segment has entered into a Co-Lending agreement with country’s largest public-sector bank State Bank of India (SBI) to offer MSME loans. Through this collaboration, CGCL and SBI aim to disburse MSME loans initially across 100-plus touch points ...