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 ...