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TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPTE 09, 2022 The 16th edition of Tata Steel’s Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS), which seeks to identify and promote the talent of school students of Odisha in the field of space science, is now online. YATS, organised in association with Pathani Samanta Planetarium, is being conducted in a hybrid mode this time where students can participate ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 08, 2022 Britain’s longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II passed away today at the age of 96.

TBB BUREAU JHARSUGUDA, SEPT 08, 2022 Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium, is working to bridge the literacy divide by enabling rural communities’ access to quality education. In pursuit of this aim, the company has been running several high-quality educational interventions, right from supporting pre-school education to implementing e-learning programmes to address the learning gaps created by the pandemic ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 08, 2022 Expanding its foam mattress portfolio, Centuary Mattress on Thursday launched a collection of eco-friendly foam mattresses – The Foamtastic. The latest mattress range includes Posture Pro, Vibex, Softopedic 2.0 and Tuff 2.0. Foamtastic’s Posture Pro is a firm memory foam mattress powered by the new Copper Gel Technology that supports the back and ensures ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 08, 2022 Home-grown steel major Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSP) has been honoured with the “Best CSR Impact Initiative Award” for its high-impact sustainable social development interventions. On behalf of the Company, President & Group CSR Head Prashant Hota received the award in the Eastern India Leadership Awards programme held at Kolkata by World CSR ...

Priyadarshi Nanu Pany Let me roll back the calendar to October 2021. If you recall, Facebook (now Meta) then suffered a major outage for around six hours. Facebook-owned social platforms- WhatsApp and Instagram, too, faced blackout. It was an unanticipated shock for folks glued to these sticky platforms. At the same time, it triggered economic losses worth millions of dollars ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 08, 2022 Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal on Thursday said while the Indian Diaspora in the US has been very professional and innovative in their approach, they have simultaneously maintained the strong connect with Indian culture and value system, thus keeping the soul of ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 07, 2022 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced that the Odisha Government would support towards excellence of Kho Kho and establish a stadium for Kho Kho and a High Performance Centre (HPC) to develop the game. Patnaik made this announcement while felicitating the Odisha Juggernauts for emerging champions at the inaugural edition of the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 07, 2022 The Odisha Government on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai for setting up a state-of-the-art Cancer Hospital at the NISER campus near the state capital. Director of Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai Dr Rajendra Badwi and Odisha’s Special Secretary Public Health Dr Ajit Kumar Mohanty signed the MoU ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, SEPT 07, 2022 Announcing a partnership with branchless banking network PayNearby, a senior executive of Axis Bank said on Wednesday that such tie-ups would aid the private lender in achieving priority sector lending aims. “The priority sector targets that we have in our own business, if we have a shortfall, we have to build up through PSLCs ...