TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEB 16, 2021 International non-profit organisation Tanager along with global impact firm Palladium has announced the launch of the Promotion and Stabilization of Farmer Producer Organizations (PSFPO) project to increase the profitability and sustainability of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) and Market Facing Companies (MFCs) in Odisha. The three-year project, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

TBB BUREAU NOIDA, FEB 16, 2021 HCL Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of HCL Technologies Ltd., today announced the winners of the sixth round of the HCL Grant, a flagship program dedicated to strengthening India’s “fifth estate” of NGOs working towards nation building. The three NGOs, one each in the development areas of environment, health, and education, will each ...

TBB BUREAU PUNE, FEB 12, 2021 Classic Legends’ Jawa 42 has received an update to its line-up in the form of three new colours and some mechanical changes. The new Jawa 42 2.1 version has been priced at Rs 1,83,942 (ex-showroom Delhi). Along with the current range of colours, the new Jawa 42 will be available in three new colours ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEB 11, 2021 Blue Star Limited aims at doubling its sales from the commercial refrigeration segment in the next three years as the company is witnessing an uptick in demand for its products in the segment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Blue Star Managing Director B Thiagarajan, the pandemic has created an opportunity ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEB 9, 2021 Making quality higher education accessible to all citizens in India, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham today announced the launch of its online full-degree programs in alignment with the New Education Policy. The programs offered include BBA, MBA, BCA, MCA, MCA in Artificial Intelligence and MCA in Cybersecurity. A six-week certificate program on Mahabharata is also offered. ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 3, 2021 Riding on the post-Budget euphoria and positive global cues the BSE Sensex closed above the historic 50,000-mark for the first time ever today. After touching a record intra-day high of 50,526.39, the 30-share BSE benchmark ended at 50,255.75, up 458.03 points. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty surged 142.10 points to its fresh closing record ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 1, 2021 The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has welcomed Budget 2021, unveiled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday. Budget 2021 proposed a boost for the healthcare sector with a significant increase of 137% in the outlay. The decision of a total spend of around Rs.2 lakh crore on healthcare with Rs.35,000 ...

PART-A Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament today which is the first budget of this new decade and also a digital one in the backdrop of unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Laying a vision for AatmaNirbhar Bharat, she said this is an expression of 130 crore Indians who have full confidence in ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 1, 2021    Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty today assumed the charge of the Vice Chief of the Army Staff. An alumnus of Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, Lieutenant General CP Mohanty was commissioned into the Rajput Regiment on 12 June 1982. In a career spanning ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 31, 2021 President Ram Nath Kovind launched the National Polio Immunisation Day for 2021 by administering polio drops to children less than five years old at Rashtrapati Bhawan yesterday.   Today is the Polio National Immunization Day, also known as ‘’Polio Ravivar”. As per provisional report on Day 1, close to 89 lakh children under five ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 31, 2021 Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar today released a standard operating procedure (SOP) on preventive measures to contain spread of COVID-19 for cinema halls and theatres. Announcing the decision the Minister said now cinema halls can operate with full capacity. Sanitisation and COVID protocols will have to be adhered to but people ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 29, 2021 In a first-of-its kind study, doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi have found that the synergistic effect of ayurvedic formulation BGR-34 along with allopathic drug Glibenclamide (a medication used to treat diabetes mellitus type 2) can have a significant role in improving the overall quality of life of ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 29, 2021 ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) has inked a pact with POSCO Maharashtra Steel, under which the former will supply hot rolled coils (HRC) worth Rs 5,000 crore in 2021. While AM/NS India is a 50:50 joint venture between Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal and Japan’s Nippon Steel, POSCO Maharashtra Steel is the Indian subsidiary of ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 18, 2021 Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty will be appointed as the 42nd Vice Chief of the Indian Army. He will succeed Lt Gen SK Saini, who will be retiring on January 31, 2021. Jagatsinghpur-born Mohanty, who is presently serving as the General Officer Commanding in-chief of the Southern Command, will be the first Odia officer ...

The Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman held the pre-budget consultations with the Finance Ministers of States and Union Territories, here today. The meeting was held through videoconference and was attended by Chief Ministers, Deputy Chief Ministers, Finance Ministers, Ministers and senior officers from the States/Union Territories and the Union Government. Welcoming the participants to the deliberation, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JAN 18 The Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure has released the 12th weekly instalment of Rs. 6,000 crore to the States today to meet the GST compensation shortfall. Out of this, an amount of Rs. 5,516.60 crore has been released to 23 States and an amount of Rs. 483.40 crore has been released to the ...

TBB BUREAU HYDERABAD, JANUARY 18, 2021 Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has suggested to the corporates to consciously encourage whistle-blowing mechanism and provide adequate safeguards for the protection of whistleblowers as it was important to ensure transparency and accountability in all matters of corporate governance to enhance the confidence of all the stakeholders, including the shareholders. “We need to protect ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 17, 2021 JSPL Foundation Chairperson Shallu Jindal has been honored as one of the ‘Top 10 Impact Leaders of India’ during the ‘India CSR Leadership Summit-2021’, organized by India CSR Network on Saturday. She received the prestigious ‘Impact Leader Award’ for her contribution in building a Resilient India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Accepting the award, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 16, 2021 Launching the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination rollout today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this unprecedented scale of vaccination campaign has never been attempted in history and this shows India’s capability. The Prime Minister said that in the first round itself, 3 crore people, which is more than population of at least 100 countries of ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 15, 2021 Union Minister for Steel and Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday exhorted the steel industry leaders to focus on making the industry export-centric and fulfil global requirements too. Addressing a webinar on “New opportunities for steel in construction and infrastructure” organised by the Indian Steel Association, the Minister said, “Aatmanirbhar Bharat and ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 2, 2021 Ahead of the actual vaccination drive, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare today conducted a nationwide mock drill at 285 session sites to test the end-to-end planned operations and the mechanism that has been set up to ensure smooth conduct of the COVID19 vaccination that is expected to begin soon. This dry ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 2, 2021 Exhorting the students to align their career with the aspiration of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that it’s the responsibility of the students to  give Brand India a global recognition. The Prime Minister said this while laying the foundation stone of the permanent campus of IIM Sambalpur via videoconferencing. Speaking ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, NOV 19 “Unlike the industrial era, first-mover does not matter, the best-mover does matter in the information era,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while inaugurating the Tech Summit in Bengaluru via videoconference today. “Achievements of the industrial era are past, and now we are in the middle of the information era. In the industrial era, change ...