TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JULY 2, 2021 The Aditya Birla Group company Aditya Aluminium has set up a modern eye care centre – Vision Centre – at Rengali to add to the eye care facility in the Sambalpur district. Regrettably, eye care has never been a priority area among the marginalized communities, and hence it’s neglected. To address this issue, Aditya ...

TBB BUREAU JHARSUGUDA, JULY 1, 2021 The Jharsuguda Unit of Vedanta Limited organised COVID vaccination camps at Maa Samaleshwari Nagar and a school for specially-abled children here, vaccinating over 200 people in the process. This month, Vedanta also conducted a mega vaccination camp across its operations, under the Vedanta Cares COVID Vaccination Drive to cover all employees, business partners and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 29, 2021 Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has dedicated a second COVID facility to the people of Odisha, developed at Eklavya Model Residential School, in Deogarh. With the new COVID facility at Deogarh, and a similar one at Kalahandi, Vedanta has added 300 critical care beds to bolster Odisha’s medical ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, JUNE 22, 2021 Continuing its fight against COVID-19, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) has launched the vaccination drive at its Angul steel making facilities. The vaccination drive would cover the company’s employees and the entire workforce along with their families. Pursuing the vision of its founder OP Jindal to serve the society in a holistic way ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 21, 2021 Led by Chairman-cum-Managing Director Sridhar Patra, National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO) employees and their family members joined the Nation in celebrating the International Day of Yoga with full zeal from their homes, on Monday morning. A special virtual Yoga session was organsied at Company’s Corporate office here, under the guidance of Yoga Instructor Bholanath ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, JUNE 21, 2021 The Angul Unit of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) on Monday observed the 7th International Day of Yoga with a Yoga Programme organised in virtual mode. Hundreds of employees and their family members residing in and around the plant location attended this Yoga session, which was conducted by Yoga Guru Swami Satyabindu Saraswati ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 21, 2021 People who have survived Covid-19 but are now battling with hyperglycemia — a condition in which blood sugar level shoots up fast — can find some relief in ayurvedic formulations like BGR-34 which are based on natural bioactive compounds with dipeptidyl-peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitory effects to manage blood glucose levels. According to a global analysis ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, JUNE 21, 2021 The 7th International Day of Yoga was observed by Paradip Port Trust (PPT) with great enthusiasm on Monday. PPT Deputy Chairman AK Bose inaugurated the event by lighting the ceremonial lamp in presence of TK Hazra Choudhary, Sr. Deputy Secretary, PPT; SK Sethi, Honorary Secretary of the Paradip Centre of Art of Living; and ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 21, 2021 “Yoga has proved a source strength and poise for people during this difficult time,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while speaking about the importance of Yoga during the pandemic, on the occasion of seventh International Day of Yoga on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the 7th International Yoga Day programme, through video ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 19, 2021 Vedanta Aluminium Power and Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has dedicated a 200-bed state-of-the-art COVID Hospital to the people of Odisha, to support the state government in providing timely and proper care to the critically ailing patients. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday inaugurated Vedanta’s largest Covid hospital ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 17, 2021 Researchers have found that yoga leads to pain relief, increases tolerance of pain and improves flexibility in patients of chronic low back pain. Dr. Renu Bhatia, Additional Professor, Department of Physiology, AIIMS, New Delhi conducted research to measure the impact of yoga on Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) along with Dr. Raj Kumar ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 17, 2021 An environment friendly hand sanitizer that is gentle on the hands and lasts longer, will soon be available in the market. The alcohol-free, aqueous, non-inflammable and non-toxic hand sanitiser has been developed from silver nanoparticles by a Pune-based start-up. The hand sanitizer developed by WeInnovate Biosolutions prolongs antimicrobial activity, thus obviating the need ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, JUNE 16, 2021 In the context of the public discourse regarding detection of new variants, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, Dr. VK Paul has reminded the public that the newly detected Delta Plus Variant is not yet classified as a Variant of Concern. “The present status is that yes, a new variant has been found. This is as ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 14, 2021 Amway India, one of the country’s leading FMCG direct selling companies, today announced the launch of its Nutrilite Vitamin C Cherry Plus intended for individuals with weakened immunity that comes with the benefit of extended-release technology. The Nutrilite Vitamin C Cherry Plus provides steady release of Vitamin C into the body for over 8 ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 13, 2021 ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) today delivered the second tranche of a consignment of 5,020 medical grade oxygen cylinders and 2,000 units of flowmeters to Odisha for people affected with COVID-19. Lakshmi Mahapatra, Head of Corporate Affairs (Odisha Operations) at AM/NS India, handed over the oxygen cylinders to Odisha State Medical Corporation Limited ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 13, 2021 Keeping vaccination drives for all sections of the society in mind, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced a unique one for students going abroad for higher studies. While 83 students are enlisted after verification of the necessary documents, 19 have already been administered the Covishield doses at two designated centres at PN College, ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, JUNE 12, 2021 In line with its efforts to support Odisha’s fight against Covid-19, the Rajgangpur Unit of Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited [DCBL] has donated eight Oxygen Concentrators to the Sundargarh District Administration for the benefit of the people affected with the novel coronavirus. DCBL Rajgangpur Deputy Executive Director Saroj Kumar Rout and Corporate Affairs Department’s Sanjib ...

TBB BUREAU BARBIL, JUNE 11, 2021 JSW Steel (mines division) in Odisha has intensified its precautionary measures against COVID as per the guidelines of the Government and the health authorities. All the mines and its offices continue to operate, ensuring adherence to stringent COVID-19 guidelines issued by the central and state authorities. Following the increase of positive cases in the ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 08, 2021 NITI Aayog and Piramal Foundation today launched the ‘Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan’ campaign in 112 Aspirational Districts to assist the district administrations in providing home-care support to Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. This campaign is under the special initiative – the Aspirational Districts Collaborative – in which local ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, JUNE 1, 2021 Union Minister Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday dedicated a 270-bed COVID Care Centre at Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) Plant Angul, in presence of Odisha Health & Family Welfare Minister Naba Kisore Das and JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal. Sambalpur MP Nitesh Ganga Deb, Chhendipada MLA Susanta Kumar ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 The Odisha State Government on Monday announced that its dedicated COVID-19 WhatsApp helpdesk is now equipped to help citizens get access to official COVID-19 updates, verified information and vaccination slot bookings. The helpdesk will guide citizens through the vaccination process right from registration on the CoWin app to finding a vaccine slot in their ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 In a major step towards ensuring fully logistic support to the Odisha Government, Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL) carried out the Customs and Airport clearances of a special cargo flight carrying the consignment of 1300 medical grade oxygen cylinders as well as other medical consumables which were airlifted from China and landed at Biju Patnaik ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 31, 2021 Delivering on its commitment to ensure the health and well-being of its people, Vedanta has launched a mega vaccination drive across its locations to cover all employees, their families and business partners. The company has received 50,000 doses of the vaccine and employees and family members are being inoculated across business units. Vedanta ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 The Bhubaneswar Circle of the State Bank of India (SBI) and SBI Foundation today donated a Covid Testing Van and medical equipment including masks, hand gloves and sanitizers to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) for management of Covid-19 in the capital city. SBI Bhubaneswar Circle Chief General manager Ruma Dey handed over the van and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 In a move to provide Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) during the Covid-19 pandemic period to different States those having insufficient Oxygen, Indian Railways is running Oxygen Express Special Trains to and from different parts of the country. During this COVID-19 upsurge, East Coast Railway (ECoR) has taken up the lead role in transporting LMO ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 22, 2021 In its continuous efforts to fight against Covid-19 pandemic, the Aditya Birla Group company, Aditya Aluminium has extended support to the Jharsuguda District Administration  by donating 10 oxygen concentrators, 200 N95 masks, 200 PPE Kits, 100 double layered Sambalpuri cotton masks (stitched by the SHGs supported by the company), recently. Aditya Aluminium Unit Head ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 22, 2021 One of the leading firms of Eastern India and a flagship company of the OSL Group, Odisha Stevedores Limited (OSL) has extended  full logistic support in unloading of 24 medical oxygen cylinders of 40-litre capacity each, 5 medical oxygen cylinders and oxygen regulators-humidifiers brought in by MV Anna Maria from Singapore through Paradip Port ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 20, 2021 Keeping in view the second upsurge of the Covid-19, the Aditya Birla Group company, Hindalco has come forward to extend support to the Sambalpur District Covid Hospital and the VIMSAR (Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research). On the request of the District Administration, Hindalco has donated 50 jumbo cylinders, 20 oxygen ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 20, 2021 As part of its support to the fight against the second wave of COVID pandemic, Vedanta Aluminium has supplied 2000 filled medical oxygen cylinders to the Government of Odisha on Thursday. The medical oxygen cylinders were handed over to the state government here today in presence of Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha ...

TBB BUREAU TIKIRI/BHUBANESWAR, MAY 19, 2021 In its relentless efforts to fight against COVID-19, Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a unit of Hindalco Industries of Aditya Birla Group, has donated 30 oxygen concentrators, 30 oxygen jumbo cylinders, 100 pulse oximeters, 100 thermometers and 12 thermal guns to the District Headquarters Hospital, Rayagada to safeguard the people of the district from the ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR, MAY 17, 2021   Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added aluminium products, has on the occasion of International Day of Families, extended the COVID Kavach Term Insurance Policy for employees of business partners across its plants in Jharsuguda and Lanjigarh in Odisha, and BALCO in Korba, Chhattisgarh. Ajay Kapur, CEO – ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 14, 2021 Moved by the second wave of the COVID pandemic, Navratrna CPSE National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) is leaving no stone unturned to stand in solidarity with the people of Odisha, in the fight against COVID-19. Deeply concerned by the surge in the number of cases and sufferings of people, NALCO is now supporting the ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 12, 2021 The Union government on Wednesday approved the procurement of 1.5 lakh units of ‘Oxycare’ system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to help in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The ‘Oxycare’ systems will be procured at a cost of Rs 322.5 crore using the PM-Cares Fund, according to the Defence ...

TBB BUREAU KALINGANAGAR, MAY 9, 2021 The supply of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) from Tata Steel’s Kalinganagar Plant through Indian Railways’ Oxygen Express started today. The Oxygen Train with seven cryogenic containers, carried 132 tons of LMO from Kalinganagar in Jajpur district to Delhi. This is the first Oxygen Express to carry LMO from the Kalinganagar Plant of Tata Steel. ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, MAY 8, 2021 India is currently undergoing through unparalleled circumstances that has not been witnessed before across generations. The brutal second wave of the Covid pandemic has left the country crippling. With over 37 lakh active COVID cases, the country needs immediate solutions to address the crisis. IIM Sambalpur has signed a memorandum of onderstanding (MoU) with ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 8, 2021 An anti-COVID-19 therapeutic application of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) has been developed by Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL), Hyderabad. Clinical trial results have shown that this molecule helps in faster recovery of hospitalised patients ...

TBB BUREAU BARGARH, MAY 7, 2021 Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday inaugurated a 100-bed COVID Care Centre with ICU and ventilator facilities at Vikash Multi-Specialty Hospital (VMSH) in Bargarh district through virtual mode. As part of the project, 70 ventilators, 50 monitors, and 200 syringe pumps are being provided by Indian Oil ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 7, 2021 The Ministry of Railways has issued a revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to be strictly adhered to in the movement of passengers by trains across the country. With the rising number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, the railways decided to advise passengers to wear face masks at the time of entry and also during ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, MAY 6, 2021 Given the severity of the current circumstances with the second wave of COVID-19 wreaking havoc in India, as a responsible corporate citizen Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited has initiated a sanitization drive in its area of operations. DCBL’s Lanjiberna Limestone Mines has started sanitizing villages under Kutra and Rajgangpur Blocks. The company has sanitised offices, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 5, 2021 Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business has accelerated the COVID vaccination initiative and vaccinated over 7,500 of its people across its plants located in Odisha and Chhattisgarh. With over 550 beds, Vedanta’s COVID Care Centres at Jharsuguda and Lanjigarh in Odisha, and BALCO in Korba, Chhattisgarh, are equipped with required infrastructure and medical personnel ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK, MAY 4, 2021 Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd. (DCBL) has taken various initiatives to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in and around its Kapilas Cement Manufacturing Works (KCMW) at Tangi in Cuttack district. The company has set up a 15-bed quarantine centre which is being run by a team of trained doctors and nurses. The company ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 4, 2021 With hospitals across India facing oxygen shortage amid the tumultuous second wave of Covid-19, country’s leading digital financial services platform Paytm today announced that Paytm Foundation will be setting up oxygen plants in 12-13 cities as hospitals across the nation. These oxygen plants would be directly installed at hospitals, which would serve the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 3, 2021 The British government will send 1,000 more ventilators from its surplus supply to Indian hospitals. This will be in addition to 200 ventilators, 495 oxygen concentrators and three oxygen generation units the UK has announced as part of its assistance package last week. Apart from providing medical supplies, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 3, 2021 With the demand for medical oxygen jumping manifold amid the second wave of Covid-19 in the country, leading steelmaker Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) – as a responsible corporate citizen –  has been supplying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) from its 6 MTPA mega steel complex at Angul since April 2021. The Angul unit ...

TBB BUREAU LANJIGARH, MAY 3, 2021 The Lanjigarh Unit of Vedanta Limited, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, has come forward to support the Government and District Administration in their fight against COVID-19. As part of its corporate social responsibility, the unit has provided 100 sets of RT-PCR Test kits to the District Headquarters Hospital, Bhawanipatna. With each set ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 1, 2021 With the Covid-19 cases rising at an alarming rate in the country, state-run Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is planning to set up jumbo medical facilities of about 2,500 beds with gaseous oxygen (GOX) for Covid treatment. This will be in addition to the facilities currently available at SAIL’s five integrated steel ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 1, 2021 Amid increasing demand for oxygen due to rapid surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, the government has allowed imports of oxygen concentrators for personal use through post, courier or e-commerce portals under the ‘gifts’ category, the Ministry of Commerce & Industry said on Saturday. The exemption for oxygen concentrators is allowed till ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, MAY 1, 2021 As India grapples with an unprecedented new wave of the Covid Pandemic, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has scaled up its production of medical grade liquid oxygen, thus becoming the country’s largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location in just over a year’s time. Traditionally, Reliance is not a manufacturer of medical ...

PRIYABRAT BISWAL BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 30, 2021 Chennai-based pharmaceutical company Apex Laboratories Private Limited on Friday launched its antiviral herbal formulation ‘Clevira’ that got the Central government’s approval as a supporting measure for mild to moderate condition of Covid-19, a senior official of the company said. Apex Laboratories said it has got the approval from the Ministry of Ayush for Clevira ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 29, 2021                     Following widespread criticism of its pricing policy, Bharat Biotech on Thursday announced a cut in price of its COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’ it plans to sell to the States to Rs 400 per dose from the earlier Rs 600.            To recall Bharat Biotech sold Covaxin to the central government at Rs ...