TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 1, 2021 Sanjay Kumar Mohanty on Saturday took over the charge of Member (Operations & Business Development), Railway Board in the Ministry of Railways and Ex Officio Secretary to the Government of India. Sanjay Kumar Mohanty Prior to the new assignment, Mohanty was General Manager, South Eastern Railway. An alumnus of Delhi School of Economics ...

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 The gross Goods and Services Tax  (GST) revenue collection for April 2021 hit new record high of Rs 1,41,384 crore, of which CGST was Rs 27,837 crore, SGST Rs 35,621,  IGST Rs 68,481 crore (including Rs. 29,599 crore collected on import of goods), and Cess Rs. 9,445 crore (including Rs. 981 crore collected ...

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 NEW DELHI, MAY 1, 2021 As a special dispensation, the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance at the recommendation of Ministry of Home Affairs has released in advance of the normal schedule the first instalment of the central share of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) of Rs 8873.6 crore for the year 2021-22 to all the States, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 29, 2021 At a time when India is facing an acute shortage of oxygen supply amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, the United Kingdom has sent more vital oxygen equipment to India in support of the country’s fight against COVID-19. Three oxygen generation units have been sent from surplus stocks in Northern Ireland to support India ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 11, 2021 After the insurance sector, the Union government in going to hike the foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in the pension sector to 74 per cent, and table a bill in this regard in the next session of the Parliament. Currently, the FDI in the pension fund is capped at 49 per cent. Amendment ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 8, 2021 Since March 2021, the daily cases of Covid-19 have been rising and have hit a 5-month high, with the maximum active cases reported from Maharashtra. One of the primary reasons behind the sudden spike is the complacency among the public about wearing masks and maintaining basic COVID protocols. To help control the increasing numbers ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 7 India’s largest producer of the aluminium and its value-added products, Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business is fostering hundreds of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in remote rural areas with its innovative ‘waste to wealth’ programmes. ‘Waste to wealth’ projects form a key pillar of Vedanta’s sustainability agenda which is centred around ‘Zero Harm, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 5, 2021 Poonam Gupta has been appointed as the Director General of country’s largest economic think-tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). Gupta who is currently working as a lead economist with the World Bank, will be the first woman Director General of NCAER, and will assume office on July 1, 2021. Gupta holds ...