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TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JAN 1, 2023 Anil Kumar Lahoti has taken over the charge of Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Railway Board under the Ministry of Railways. The appointments committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of. Prior to this new assignment, Lahoti was working as Member (Infrastructure), Railway Board. Anil Kumar Lahoti 1984 batch Indian ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JAN 1, 2023 Recognising the enormous potential of Millets which also aligns with several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Union Government on Sunday announced it has lined up a series of millet-centric promotional activities across the country as the International Year of Millets (IYM) kicks in, while noting that millets are also integral part of ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 31, 2022 The roll out of center’s new integrated food security Scheme is set to begin on 1 January 2023, officials said on Saturday. As per the decision made by cabinet, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new Scheme would provide free food grains to 81.35 crore beneficiaries under NFSA, for the year 2023. ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 31, 2022 The Steel Melting Shop-II (SMS-II) of SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) surpassed the historic milestone of production of 50 Million Ton (MT) crude steel on Friday. With this, the journey that had commenced in March 1996 with commissioning of the SMS-II has now entered a higher orbit. The 50 MT crude steel production was ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 31, 2022 Non-banking finance company Sundaram Finance on Saturday said that it would revise interest rate on its term deposits with effect from January 1, 2023. The rate on 12-month deposit would be increased to 7.20 per cent, 7.50 per cent for a tenure of 24 months and for 36 months it would be 7.50 ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 31, 2022 The Union Government has deepened the reach of the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) with the opening of more than 9000 stores covering 743 out of 766 districts across the country. The number of Jan Aushadhi Kendras has now increased to 9000 from 8610 in the last financial year. The Government has ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 30, 2022 Navratna CPSE National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has launched a new downstream product – Aluminium LED Cap stock in Alloy AA1100 with temper H12 in coil form. The product was formally launched by Union Mines Secretary Vivek Bharadwaj in virtual mode during his visit to NALCO Corporate office on Thursday. NALCO Chairman & Managing Director Sridhar Patra, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 30, 2022 At a time when most of the farmers of Odisha are opting for high yield varieties of paddy, the Aditya Birla Group Company Aditya Aluminium Lapanga has successfully convinced western Odisha farmers to go for the indigenous variety of black rice, popularly known as ‘Kalabati’ rice which was lost over the years. Aditya Aluminium’s ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, DEC 30, 2022 Union Coal Secretary  Amrit Lal Meena and Coal India Ltd. (CIL) Chairman Pramod Agarwal on Thursday visited the Coal Gasification Plant (CGP) of Jindal Steel & Power (JSP)  in  its 6 MTPA integrated steel making facility in Angul, Odisha.  Jindal Steel & Power extended a warm welcome to Meena and Agarwal to the world’s ...