TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, MARCH 9, 2022 The much awaited public hearing for expansion of FRP Hindalco Hirakud, a unit of Aditya Birla group, was completed on Wednesday. People supported the expansion programme in hope of getting local employment and other benefits. “Hindalco has given local employment to the people of Hirakud and western Odisha. Hence, we are hopeful that it ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, MARCH 9, 2022 Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited (DCBL), one of India’s leading cement manufacturers is reiterating its focus to encourage an inclusive environment, foster a fair and diverse workforce, and promote gender equality through its multiple initiatives at the company’s Rajgangpur facility and its surrounding communities. Birajini Ekka, working at cement mill section proudly hoisted the National ...

PBD BUREAU ANGUL/BARBIL, MARCH 9, 2022      Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) and its social arm JSPL Foundation celebrated the birthday of JSP’s Chairman Shri Naveen Jindal as ‘Fitness Day’ here on Wednesday. To commemorate the day, a host of programmes were organised at Barbil pellet plant, Kasia and Tensa mines.   To mark the occasion, a Health Clinic was organised ...

TBB BUREAU RANCHI, MARCH 9, 2022 NTPC Pakri Barwadih Coal Mining Project bagged runners-up prize at National Safety Award (Mines) ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday. Union Minister for Labour & Employment Bhupender Yadav gave away the award in presence of Union Minister of State for Labour & Employment Rameswar Teli, Union Labour & Employment Secretary ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 9, 2022 In line with the International Women’s Day 2022 theme #BreakTheBias, leading FMCG direct selling company Amway India continued its commitment to an equal future for all. The company is undertaking a slew of women-centric programs leading to the International Women’s Day celebrations across the country. In its bid to provide an inclusive platform to ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 9, 2022 The employees of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) made an impressive mark in the ceremony of Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) given for the performance year 2018. SAIL Chairman with the VRP award winners of SAIL for the performance year 2018 The prestigious national awards were given away by Union Minister for Labour ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 8, 2022 Vedanta Aluminium Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has launched a ‘Vedanta#BreakTheBias Augmented Reality (AR) campaign on Instagram on the eve of International Women’s Day. The campaign is aimed at gamifying the message that female students and professionals should actively consider a career in the manufacturing industry, which is ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, MARCH 8, 2022 Jindal Steel and Power (JSP) and its Corporate Social Responsibility arm JSPL Foundation celebrated the International Women’s Day-2022 with a series of events. While JSP organised programmes within its campus for working women, JSPL Foundation conducted programs and honoured girls and women for their outstanding contribution and becoming role models for the society. Extending ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 8, 2022 The Odisha Regional Office of NABARD on Tuesday celebrated the International Women’s Day. The event was organised at Bhubaneswar and in 15 districts of Odisha. The programme at Bhubaneswar was graced by Anu Garg, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Water Resources, Government of Odisha as Chief Guest and Poly Pattnaik, Principal, Mothers’ Public School ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, MARCH 8, 2022 Sanctions imposed by the United States and European nations on Russia and, consequently, on Alrosa, Russia’s biggest diamond miner, will have a bearing on the growth of India’s diamond polishing industry. Alrosa supplies 30% of the rough diamonds globally and is a critical source for India, which imports, cuts and polishes 80-90% of the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 7, 2022 While celebrating International Women’s Day on Tuesday, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) will also cheer its large number of women employees who have not only excelled in various fields of endeavours but have also forayed into many a field earlier known as ‘male bastions’. Women can now be seen on Shop floors, operating cranes and pulpits ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 7, 2022 On the eve of the International Women’s Day, JSPL Foundation, the CSR arm of Jindal Steel & Power launched a special programme ‘Jindal SwayamSampanna Nari’ on Women’s Skill & Education in Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Under this programme, underprivileged girls and women can avail of financial assistance towards the course fee for pursuing vocational training ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 7, 2022         In its continuous endeavor to promote women empowerment, India’s largest integrated energy company NTPC Ltd. has introduced multiple initiatives to promote work-life balance, inclusiveness, diversity and develop leadership among its female employees. In a bid to enhance women representation, NTPC had launched a special recruitment drive only for women executives across its areas ...

TBB BUREAU RANCHI, MARCH 7, 2022 Swayamsiddha Ladies Club, the Ladies Welfare Wing of NTPC Coal Mining Headquarters, has been conducting various CSR and welfare activities for the welfare of needy local communities including support in promoting the efforts of self-dependent Ladies. As part of celebrating “Spirit of Women” on the eve of International Women’s Day 2022, Swayamsiddha Ladies Club, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 6, 2022 TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL), a joint venture between Tata Power and Government of Odisha, has been conferred with Gold level award at the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) Innovations Awards 2022 during International Smart Utility Week held at New Delhi. ISGF is a Public Private Partnership initiative of the Union Power Ministry ...

TBB BUREAU PURI, MARCH 6, 2022 India’s largest and fastest growing apparel and accessories specialty chain of Reliance Retail, TRENDS, announced the launch of its new store in Nimapada town of Puri district in Odisha. Trends is truly democratizing fashion in India, by strengthening its reach & connect with consumers in India – right from Metros, mini metros, to Tier ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 5, 2022 The 108 Ambulance service completed nine years of its uninterrupted emergency service in Odisha on Saturday. Since the launch of the service in the State in March 2013, 108 Ambulances have ferried and saved more than 75 lakh valuable lives. Patients from both urban as well as rural areas of the State benefited from ...

TBB BUREAU CUTTACK, MARCH 5, 2022 With the aim to inculcate safety awareness amongst the workers, Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL) commenced observance of the 51st National Safety Week (NSW) on Friday at its office premises based at Badapadia in the port city of Paradip. The weeklong observance started with the administration of safety pledge at a special occasion graced by ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, MARCH 5, 2022 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur is planning for comprehensive development of Talcher town where one of its major coalfields is located. Talcher which is also known as the ‘City of Black Diamond’ in Odisha contributes approximately 60 per cent of the total coal produced by MCL and has one of ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, MARCH 4, 2022 Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) on Friday announced the opening of the state-of-the-art Jio World Centre at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai. Envisioned by Nita Ambani, Director Reliance Industries and Founder-Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, the Centre covers an expanse of 18.5 acres in BKC and is set to become an iconic business, commerce and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 4, 2022 The CII Odisha State Council on Friday announced the names of new office-bearers for the year 2022-23. Sridhar Patra Sridhar Patra, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, National Aluminium Company Ltd. has been elected as the Chairman of the Council. His name was announced at the first meeting of the reconstituted Odisha State Council held here today. Patra ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 4, 2022 Country’s leading steel producer JSW bagged the first position in ICT category at the CII Odisha Annual Meeting organized here on Friday. The state-level award ceremony was hosted under Industry Carnival for Quality Circles, Industry Relations, Environment Safety & Health (ESH) and ICT categories. JSW clinched the prestigious award in ICT segment through digital ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, MARCH 4, 2022 Observance of the 51st  National Safety Week started at Jindal Steel and Power (JSP)’s Angul mega steel complex on Friday with a slew of programs to sensitize the employees, workers and community on safety practices. The weeklong programme started with the hoisting of Safety Flag by Assistant Director of Factories & Boilers Archana Dash who ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 4, 2022 JioPhone Next, the affordable smartphone jointly developed by Google and Jio, with most advanced features is available at over 7000 retail mobile stores across Odisha now, along with all Jio Stores, Jio Points, Reliance Digital stores, and Jio Centres across the state. With this extensive availability, new smartphone users, especially the people wishing to ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 3, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of state-run SAIL, kept the graph rising in all key production areas in the first eleven months of the current financial year i.e. FY22. In the April 2021-February 2022 period, RSP was successful in producing  39,27,790 tons of  hot metal, 36,18,231 tons of crude steel and 33,16,518 tons of saleable ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, MARCH 3, 2022 Angul Collector Siddhartha Shankar Swain on Thursday flagged off the Swasti Express – a special initiative by JSPL Foundation for senior citizens in presence of Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) Angul Location Head and Executive Director Hridayeshwar Jha, Additional District Magistrate (Revenue) Santosh Pradhan, ADPHO (TB & Leprosy) Dr. Biswabihari Mohanty, District Social Security ...

TBB BUREAU SAN JOSE (USA) / MUMBAI, MARCH 3, 2022 Sanmina Corporation and Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Ltd (RSBVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries have entered into an agreement to create a joint venture through an investment in Sanmina’s existing Indian entity named Sanmina SCI India. Sanmina Corporation is a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest growing ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 2, 2022 Nilon’s, one of the most trusted processed food company, recently completed 60 years. A humble journey that started from small farmland in Jalgaon in Maharashtra, has transitioned into the fastest growing food processing company in India today. Founded in 1962 by Suresh Sanghavi in a small one-room unit to process the fruits grown at ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, MARCH 2, 2022 Paving the way for cutting-edge innovation, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. has announced the launch of its first ever Startup India Design Challenge. In collaboration with Start-Up India, India’s largest online entrepreneurship platform, this competition is curated for budding startups and entrepreneurs to identify innovative technologies and business ideas that will transform the future ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, MARCH 1, 2022 Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited and the holding company of all retail companies within the group, has invested in Abraham & Thakore Exports Pvt Ltd for a majority stake. RRVL seeks to leverage its subsidiary Reliance Brands Limited’s (RBL) deep understanding of the affluent Indian customer and their ...

TBB BUREAU RANCHI, MARCH 1, 2022 NTPC Regional Executive Director (Coal Mining) Partha Mazumder on Monday made a courtesy visit to meet senior IAS officer Nancy Sahay who took over the charge as Deputy Commissioner of Hazaribag on February 26. Sahay was the CEO of Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society, Ranchi prior to taking charge as the Deputy Commissioner of ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 1, 2022 In a move to protect the bank customers against large value cheque frauds, Punjab National Bank (PNB) to make Positive Pay System (PPS) mandatory from April 4, 2022. As per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines, PNB had introduced PPS for cheques of Rs. 50,000 and above presented in CTS clearing from January ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 1, 2022            Notwithstanding the Omicron effect, the GST collections grew 18 per cent to over Rs 1.33 lakh crore in February 2022. This is for the fifth time in the current fiscal that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection has crossed Rs 1.30 lakh crore mark.            Also, this is the first time, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 1, 2022 Around the world, Amway has been taking on the issue of malnutrition, helping thousands of children live better, healthier lives. In India, Amway is fighting childhood malnutrition through its globally renowned nutrition program – Power of 5, helping children under the age of six to lead a healthy life. Stepping up its efforts in ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 28, 2022 Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL) has been awarded as the “Best Logistic Company of the Year” for successful diversification in multiple logistics in the 7th Edition of ‘East Coast Maritime Forum 2022’ held in Kolkata recently. On behalf of the OSL Group, its VP (Marketing & Coordination) Lingaraj Panigrahy received the award at a special ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 28, 2022 Sharad Kumar Srivastava took over as the Additional General Manager of East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Monday. Prior to the new assignment, he was working as Principal Chief Signal & Telecom Engineer at Metro Railway, Kolkata. Srivastava, who holds degree in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, joined in Indian Railways in 1988. He has vast ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, FEBRUARY 28, 2022 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) on Monday crossed the magnificent figure of 150 million tonne (MT) in coal production, that too in a record time of 11 months. With this, MCL has joined the coveted club of coal companies which have produced 150 MT coal in a financial year. Earlier, South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, FEBRUARY 28, 2022 The Paradip Port Trust (PPT) has been adjudged “Port of the Year” in the Non-containerised Cargo category in the Eastern Star Awards 2022 held in Kolkata recently. The 7th edition of East Coast Maritime Forum 2022 concurrent with Eastern Star Awards was held by Exim India Shipping Times on February 24. PPT Deputy Chairman ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 27, 2022            With the primary objective of supplying reliable power to all its consumers, TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL), a joint venture between Tata Power and the Government of Odisha, has been focusing on upgradation of existing electricity distribution infrastructure and augmentation of the same.            TPCODL has recently undertaken a number of initiatives ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 27, 2022 As many as 366 people received free medical treatment and medicines at the multi-specialty health camp organised by the Hirakud Unit of Hidalco at Larpank Govt Upper Primary School today. The multi-specialty camp was inaugurated by Kailash Natha Pandey, Hindalco Sambalpur Cluster Head in presence of HR Head Krishna Padhi, Plant Head Debasis Mallik, ...

TBB BUREAU DEOGARH, FEBRUARY 27, 2022 Gatikrushna Pradhan of Shimilihota village under Riamal Block in Deogarh district is known as a successful farmer in his locality. Though he holds an Engineering degree, he preferred to help his father in farming instead of going for a lucrative job that his professional degree could have easily fetched him. When he started farming ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 TP Central Odisha Distribution Ltd (TPCODL), a joint venture between Tata Power and the Odisha Government, has rewarded nine customers from Bhubaneswar Circle 1 under ‘Bill Pay & Win’ drive carried out during September-December, 2021. As many as 45 customers will be awarded across circles in the Company’s area of operation. TPCODL launched this ...

TBB BUREAU KONARK, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 India can thrive only if a level-playing field is available for all players in Steel sector, said Union Steel Minister Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, here today. Inaugurating the two-day “Conference of Ministers of Mines and Industries from States”, the Minister said a policy to encourage the secondary steel players is necessary to give direction ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has crossed 148 million tonnes (MT) in production of coal surpassing last year’s figure within 11 months of the financial year 2022. With 35 days to go, the Company is expected to end the year with a stupendous growth of 12 per cent. The company reached 148.22 MT production mark ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 Dalmia Bharat Foundation (DBF), the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd (DCBL), has undertaken a range of stimulus measures to foster sporting talent, especially for the youth dwelling in villages surrounding its Rajgangpur plant and Lanjiberna Mines. This initiative will create tremendous opportunities for hundreds of youth athletes interested in ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 Researchers have found that ayurveda drug BGR-34 can help lower the sugar level within 12 weeks as well as exert a powerful anti-oxidant action to prevent diabetic complications. Published in the latest edition of Serbian Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research on Sciendo scientific platform, the study by researchers from Chitkara University in Punjab ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 24, 2022 TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL) has been relentlessly engaged in empowering local communities in its area of operations. In line with the same, various initiatives like providing livelihood opportunities to Women Self Help Groups, Mobile Health Dispensary for rural communities and Vocational Training Centers for youth and women have been established along with ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/TIKIRI, FEBRUARY 24, 2022 In pursuance to its pursuits in creating an enterprise ecosystem around its periphery, Utkal Alumina, a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Limited of Aditya Birla Group, has achieved its first milestone under project UDYAMEE and inaugurated 12 micro-enterprises –  eight in Kashipur of Rayagada and four in Thuamul Rampur of Kahalandi – in January while ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 24, 2022 Exhibiting a strong step towards its commitment of achieving net-zero carbon by 2050, Vedanta Aluminium Business on Thursday launched its low-carbon, green aluminium brand ‘Restora’. The company unveiled two product lines – Restora (lowcarbon aluminium) and Restora Ultra (ultra-low carbon aluminium) under the brand. Vedanta Aluminium is the first major non-ferrous Indian metals ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 24, 2022 Committed to Government’s vision of covering all unbanked areas with banking services and as a part of its various customer-friendly initiatives, public sector lender Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Thursday announced the launch of “Project Banksakhi” in Odisha in collaboration with Mahagram & Sunivesh India Finance Services Pvt. Ltd. for Online Bank Account opening. ...