TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, 25 JANUARY 2022 Tata Power Central Odisha Distribution Ltd (TPCODL), a joint venture between Tata Power and the Odisha Government, has enabled WhatsApp billing services to provide a convenient, safe and seamless bill payment experience to the consumers. To make sure the customers can easily activate their WhatsApp billing service, the company has initiated multiple options including ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 25, 2022 As the Indian economy pushes forward to grow at 9 per cent and above over the next few years, a key challenge for the country would be to rebalance its energy needs in favour of renewable sources by 2030 to 50 per cent as per the Paris agreement. This is where the Aluminium ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 25, 2022 The Kinship Care Programme of SOS Children’s Villages of India serves about 300 children, including 150 girls, in 10 locations across the country. Introduced in 2017, the Kinship Care Programme ensures that children without parental care grow up with minimal disruption to their educational, cultural and social lives. Under this initiative, children who have ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 25, 2022 As part of its CSR initiative, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services (Mahindra Finance) has donated a Mahindra Supro Ambulance to Odisha-based non-government organisation Paribartan under its COVID-19 Relief Project. Mahindra Finance Circle Head (Farm Equipment Loans) Deepankar Verma handed over the keys to Paribartan team leads Sudhansu Mohan Dash and Subhransu Bhusan Swain, and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 24, 2022 Furthering its commitment towards nation building and grooming talented youth, Dalmia Bharat Limited has partnered with the Odisha Government to host the state’s first ever International Badminton event ‘Odisha Open 2022.’ Organised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Tour Super 100 tournament in association with the Badminton Association of India (BAI), the event will ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 24, 2022 Struggling to cope with the acute coal shortage in Odisha that continues to plague local industries, the Association of Industrial Entrepreneurs of Bhubaneswar (AIEBA) has sought the intervention of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the resumption of adequate coal supplies in the resumption of adequate coal supplies to the State-based industries. The ongoing crisis ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 24, 2022 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Odisha Regional Office on Monday celebrated National Girl Child Day across five districts — Koraput, Kalahandi, Rayagada, Malkanagiri and Deogorh – of the State. NABARD has been supporting various Tribal Development Projects in these districts and 250 girl children of the project beneficiaries were invited to ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 24, 2022 In view of the significant rise observed in eye disorders detected, ophthalmologists suggest that the population of glaucoma patients in India is expected to double by 2040. In India, nearly 12 million are affected by glaucoma with an estimated 40-50 percent eye disorder cases going undetected. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 24, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) on Monday celebrated SAIL Gaurav Diwas at Ispat Stadium to mark the SAIL Foundation Day. RSP ED (Mines) A K Kundu inaugurated the programme by unfurling the SAIL flag. It was followed by rendering of SAIL Anthem. The ED (Mines) released colourful balloons to the sky as a part of ...

TBB BUREAU GOA, JANUARY 23, 2022 Both goalkeepers, Amrinder and Arshdeep Singh emerged unbelievably scot-free as ATK Mohun Bagan and Odisha played anything but a timid 0-0 draw in a 2021-22 Hero Indian Super League (ISL) game at the PJN Stadium in Fatorda, on Sunday. Maintaining their positions on the league table – 6th and 7th respectively, Odisha now have ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 23, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has won the ‘‘Best Integrated Steel Plant’ title under SAIL Corporate Awards for Excellence-2021 in recognition of its remarkable overall performance in the financial year 2020-21. RSP has performed exceedingly well in production, productivity, techno-economics and profitability in the last fiscal and went on to achieve the Annual Business Plan ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, JANUARY 23, 2022 Republic Day celebrations began on January 23 this year to include Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary, in line with the Union Government’s aim to highlight important aspects of the history and culture of India. Paradip Port Trust (PPT) officials, led by Chairman PL Haranadh, offered floral tributes at the statue of Netaji near ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 21, 2022 With customer-centricity at its core, TP Central Odisha Distribution Ltd (TPCODL), a joint venture between Tata Power and the Odisha Government, inaugurated its Meter Testing Laboratory at Bhubaneswar for calibration and testing of meters as per Indian standard specification. The company has procured four automatic test benches for testing of single phase and three-phase ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 21, 2022 Vedanta Aluminium Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added aluminium products, has launched ‘People of Metal’, a series of six short films featuring ordinary people from local communities around the companys operations, who have braved adversities to create extraordinary and inspiring stories. Through these videos, Vedanta Aluminium aims to celebrate those ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 19, 2022 Jyotirmoy Mishra has been elected as the Chairman of the Bhubaneswar Chapter of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for the year 2022 Ajaya Kumar Majhi has been elected as the Vice Chairman of the Chapter, while Bimal Prasad Pattanaik and Rudra Madhab Sahoo have been elected as the Secretary and Treasurer, ...

TBB BUREAU GOA, JANUARY 18, 2022 Odisha FC rose to fifth place with a 2-0 victory over NorthEast United in the latest 2021-22 Hero Indian Super League encounter at the PJN Stadium in Fatorda. The win takes OFC from ninth to fifth with only one point separating them from the fourth-placed Mumbai City FC. As for Khalid Jamil and Co, ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, JANUARY 18, 2022  Senior officials of JSW including the company’s Chief Executive Officer on Tuesday visited the proposed JSW Project area in Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadkujang under Ersama Tehsil near Paradip. JSW Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ranjan Naik, JSW Mines Chief BRK Padhi, Human Resources Chief Sreejit Mishra and Paradip Project Chief Subrata Sahu visited the proposed ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 18, 2022 Vedanta Aluminium Business and Runaya Refining have won the ‘Gold’ award at the ‘BW Recycling for a Greener Tomorrow Awards 2022’ in ‘Best in Recycling or Material Recovery Facility of the Year’ category. Vedanta Aluminium produces more than half of India’s aluminium at 1.97 million metric tonnes, at its smelters at Jharsuguda in ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 17, 2022 Electropreneur Park-Bhubaneswar with support from Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd. (BSCL) has organized a Pan India Virtual Acceleration Program for Smart City Solutions namely Smart City Challenge & Outcome for Urban Transformation (SCOUT 2021) and the Valedictory & Product Showcase event. The objective of SCOUT was to invite innovative products and solutions from the Startups ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 16, 2022 On the occasion of the Foundation Day of L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) Mithu Tulsi Chanrai Campus Bhubaneswar on Sunday, a new facility, “NTPC Operating Room Complex,” was inaugurated. NTPC Executive Director (HR) MSD Bhattamishra inaugurated the NTPC Operating Room Complex from New Delhi via virtual connect. Speaking during the event, Bhattamishra said ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 16, 2022 After Delhi and Kolkata, KISS Residential School will now be opened in Mumbai as per the memorandum of understanding signed between city-based KISS and Choice Welfare Foundation of Mumbai.  Sunil Patodia signed the agreement on behalf of the Choice Welfare Foundation, while Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS signed on behalf of KISS. Choice – KISS Residential ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 16, 2022 Three new facilities — NTPC Operating Room Complex, courtesy NTPC Ltd; and Digital Library and Special Needs Vision Clinic for persons and children with vision loss and special needs, courtesy Columbus Global Services India Pvt Ltd. — were inaugurated at LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) Mithu Tulsi Chanrai Campus here today on the occasion ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 16, 2022 Mom Hand, a leading start-up, today launched its first of kind multivitamin ‘Chennapoda’ for immunity conscious customers. This famous sweetmeat of Odisha will help in increasing one’s immunity which is very important during this challenging time, claimed the company. A team of experts has developed this delicious and healthy ‘Chennapoda’ after extensive research and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 15, 2022 Aishwarya Ray, B. Com 1st Year student of DAV School of Business Management, Bhubaneswar who is also pursuing CS Executive Programme in ICSI Bhubaneswar Chapter, has secured the first position in the national round of the ICSI Slogan Writing Competition. In an award giving ceremony organised at DAV School of Business Management, Unit-VIII, Bhubaneswar ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 14, 2022            State-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been certified by the Indian Navy to produce high strength DMR Grade steel for use in making submarines, a senior Naval officer said. “SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant has received the certification for producing DMR Grade high strength steel and this steel will be used by Indian Navy ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 14, 2022 Twenty-year-old Swadhin Majhi, who hails from Angul in Odisha, produced an impressive performance at the recently held All India Inter-University Athletics Championship for Men in Mangalore to return with a bronze medal in the High Jump event. Majhi, who trains at the Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High Performance Centre (HPC) at the Kalinga Stadium ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 13, 2022 Vedanta Aluminium Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, has become the biggest industrial consumer of renewable energy (RE) in 2021, leading renewable energy procurement on the country’s power exchanges – Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) and Power Exchange India Limited (PXIL). The company has procured about 2 billion units of RE ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 13, 2022 In its endeavour to strengthen the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been making all-out efforts to fulfil the requirements of customized steel products for high-profile infrastructure projects undertaken all over the country. One such project is the Kaleswaram Lift Irrigation Project of Telangana for which RSP has so far supplied ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 12, 2022 Navratna CPSE National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has achieved yet another milestone in aluminium smelting. The aluminium major has successfully put into operation all the 960 Pots at its existing Smelter Plant located at Angul. NALCO Chairman and Managing Director Sridhar Patra formally operationalized the 960th Pot by virtually switching on the pot from ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, JANUARY 12, 2022 The Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco) has started construction of the boundary wall and temporary roads for the JSW project, which will come at Dhinkia Nuagaon and Gadkujang panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district. The pre-cast boundary wall and temporary roads are being built for the first ten kilometers starting from the Mahal end of ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 11, 2022 The Odisha Regional Office of NABARD on Tuesday released the State Focus Paper for Odisha, projecting an overall credit potential under Priority Sector at Rs.1,34,665 crore for the financial year 2022-23. The seminar was inaugurated by Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari, and attended by Development Commissioner PK Jena, Agriculture Production Commissioner Sanjeev Chopra; Principal ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, JANUARY 10, 2022 Union Ports, Shipping and Waterways Secretary Sanjeev Ranjan has asked the Paradip Port authorities to expedite the widening of NH-53 (Paradip to Chandikhol) through the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) formed between the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under Gati Shakti Programme. During his maiden visit to the ...

TBB BUREAU PURI, JANUARY 8, 2022 A group of sand artists, led by renowned sculptor Manas Sahoo, on Saturday made a magnificent sculpture on the Puri beach showcasing Lord Jagannath in all His glory showering blessings on the Vedanta Group and its Founder Anil Agarwal for promoting and participating in the progress of Odisha. Hundreds of tourists and connoisseurs of ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 8, 2022 Hot Strip Mill-2 of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) for the first time has successfully rolled 47 numbers of Jumbo HR coils weighing 32 tons each and measuring 3.5 x 1500 mm as a part of its stabilization process. With this, it has entered a select club of steel makers of the country and entered ...

TBB BUREAU JAJANG, JANUARY 7, 2022 A two-day Gram Sabha held in presence of local residents, government officials and JSW authorities to obtain forest clearance for the Jajang Iron Ore Mines of JSW Steel, went off peacefully, company sources said today. Gram Sabhas were held in Jurudi, Jajang, Jaribar, Palasa (Ka) and Bandhubeda villages over two days for conversion of ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 7, 2022           Well-known spiritual thinker and writer Dr. Chandra Bhanu Satpathy was conferred with the NALCO Kalidas Samman this year, at NALCO’s 42nd Foundation Day function here on Thursday. Renowned Odissi danseuse Aruna Mohanty was bestowed with the NALCO Kharavela Award in Odissi Dance Guru category. Mamata Ojha and Harekrushna Dhall were both presented with ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 6, 2022 Addressing the employees and stakeholders of state-run NALCO, Odisha Governor Prof. Ganeshi Lal who is also an academician par excellence, urged NALCOnians and society at large to follow the triple bottom-line approach of People, Planet and Passion, to ensure absolute harmony between man, science, nature and God. Delivering the keynote address at the 20th ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 6, 2022 Even as steel behemoth Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) is bracing for capacity expansion of its integrated steel plant at Angul from 6 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 25.2 MTPA by 2030 to make it the largest Plant in the World in a single location, the Company’s Chairman Naveen Jindal has raised serious concern ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 5, 2021 Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will flag off the Puri-Hatia-Puri Tapaswini Express with upgraded LHB Rake on Thursday through videoconferencing from Bhubaneswar Railway Station. In a bid to provide better comfort and jerk free journey to the passengers, Indian Railway has decided to run 18452/18451 Puri-Hatia-Puri Tapaswini Express with modern Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches by ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 5, 2021 The Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha Limited (IPICOL) and GAIL (India) Limited on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the areas of green hydrogen, green ammonia and renewable energy (solar/wind) for the production of eco-friendly fuels in Odisha. Scope of the MoU inter-alia includes preparing a feasibility study ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 5, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of Maharatna Company SAIL, emerged stronger from the pandemic blues to post brilliant overall performance in various key areas in the Calendar Year 2021. The Steel Plant produced highest ever 4.37 Million Tonnes (MT) Hot Metal, 3.99 MT Crude Steel and 3.69 MT Saleable Steel in 2021. RSP ...

TBB BUREAU KANIHA, JANUARY 5, 2021 A new vegetable market developed for the local vendors at NTPC Kaniha was inaugurated on here on Wednesday. The market was inaugurated by Dhenkanal MP Mahesh Sahoo, in presence of Shri Talcher MLA Braja Kishore Pradhan, and NTPC Kaniha Executive Director K Srinivasa Rao. The new vegetable market is a part of NTPC Kaniha’s ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 5, 2021 TPWODL, a joint venture between Tata Power and the Odisha Government for power distribution in Western Odisha, on Wednesday celebrated the completion of the first year of its successful operations in the region. Since its formation, TPWODL has continuously invested in improving the power distribution infrastructure of Western Odisha and ensured affordable and reliable ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 4, 2022 For decades, people of Madhuramba village in Gajapati district of Odisha faced water crisis, which would become acute in summers. Till 2018, the residents of the village struggled daily to meet their drinking water needs. Lack of water in close proximity made life more difficult for them. Four hand pumps in the village catered ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, JANUARY 3, 2022 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has registered a double-digit growth of 22 per cent in coal off-take at 129.36 million tonnes and 15 per cent in dry fuel production at 117.12 million tonnes in the third quarter (Q3) ended on December 31, 2021 as compared against same period during the previous fiscal. Leading the efforts ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 3, 2022 Cuttack-based Shanti Memorial Hospital has launched a state–of-the-art Cath Lab in its Cardiology Department for the benefit of patients. Procedures like Coronary Angiography, Peripheral Angiography, PTCA, BMV ( Balloon Mitral Valvoplasty), Electrophysiology Study, RFA 2D & 3D Mapping, Permanent Pacemaker Implantation etc. can be performed with ease at the newly launched advanced Cath Lab. ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 3, 2022 In a bid to protect the youths of India from the novel coronavirus, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar on Monday started the COVID-19 vaccination drive for the age group 15-18 years. The vaccination session started at 8 AM. There were 150 online registrations and 15 on-the-spot registrations for the same. ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 3, 2022 After a string of impressive performances, 22-year-old Jhilli Dalabehera from Nayagarh in Odisha is determined to make a mark at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China later this year. In December, Jhilli won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent with a tally of 167Kgs, but in spite of a podium ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JANUARY 2, 2022 TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL) has been conferred with six Gold category awards by the National Convention on Quality Concept (NCQC), 2021, organised by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI). Out of the six, it received four under the ‘Par Excellence’ category and two under the ‘Excellent’ category. This year, the theme of ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 1, 2022 “RSP (Rourkela Steel Plant) excelled in all spheres and achieved remarkable overall performance in the year 2021. But we can’t rest on our laurels. I know that, the indomitable spirit of the Rourkelites and their knack for excellence and innovation will not allow us to rest. We have to think of fresh benchmarks to ...