TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 25, 2021 A special event on ‘Ambition to Impact: Opportunities for Global Collaboration in India’s Clean Energy Economy’ at the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Energy (HLDE) 2021 was co-organised by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; the Permanent Mission of India to the UN at New York, and the Council on Energy, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 25, 2021 As many as 2.82 crore households have been electrified since the launch of SAUBHAGYA, one of the largest household electrification drives in the world launched by India on this day four years ago. As of March 2019, 2.63 crore willing un-electrified households in rural and urban areas of the country were provided electricity ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 25, 2021 The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, has approved capital projects of Rs. 2,903.80 crore in 8 States under the ‘Special Assistance to States for Capital Expenditure for 2021-22’scheme. The Ministry has also released an amount of Rs. 1,393.83 crore to Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Sikkim and Telangana. In ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 15, 2021 Taking steps forward towards the vision of an ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government has approved the PLI (Production Linked Incentive) Scheme for Automobile Industry and Drone Industry with a budgetary outlay of Rs 26,058 crore. The PLI scheme for the auto sector will incentivize high value Advanced Automotive Technology vehicles and ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 10, 2021 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a high level meeting to review the Covid-19 situation and the vaccination. The topics covered included a review of the prevailing Covid-19 scenario, preparedness of the health systems to respond, availability of medical oxygen and matters relating to production, supply and distribution of Covid-19 vaccine. The ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 10, 2021 Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) successfully launched the ATL Space Challenge 2021 for all school students across the country. The challenge has been designed for all the school students, mentors and teachers across the country who ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, AUG 26, 2021 Vice President M. Venakaiah Naidu on Thursday called for an inclusive approach to online and distance education and cautioned that issues pertaining to access, quality and affordability might get accentuated with the pandemic and exclude many students in the process. While noting the power of online education as a ‘digital bridge’ for people ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, AUG 23, 2021 Cementing its leadership position even further as the most preferred and No. 1 digital service provider in the state, Reliance Jio has added 2.53 lakh new mobile subscribers in Odisha in the month of June 2021, as per the latest telecom subscriber data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). With this, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, AUG 23, 2021 The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a $500 million loan to expand the metro rail network in Bengaluru with construction of two new metro lines totalling 56 km in length. The signatories to the agreement for Bengaluru Metro Rail Project were Rajat Kumar Mishra, Additional Secretary, Department ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, AUG 23, 2021 Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, today launched the asset monetisation pipeline of Central ministries and public sector entities: ‘National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP Volumes 1 & 2)’. The pipeline has been developed by NITI Aayog, in consultation with infrastructure line ministries, based on the mandate for ‘Asset Monetisation’ under Union ...