TBB BUREAU BARGARH, MAY 7, 2021 Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday inaugurated a 100-bed COVID Care Centre with ICU and ventilator facilities at Vikash Multi-Specialty Hospital (VMSH) in Bargarh district through virtual mode. As part of the project, 70 ventilators, 50 monitors, and 200 syringe pumps are being provided by Indian Oil ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, MAY 6, 2021 Given the severity of the current circumstances with the second wave of COVID-19 wreaking havoc in India, as a responsible corporate citizen Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited has initiated a sanitization drive in its area of operations. DCBL’s Lanjiberna Limestone Mines has started sanitizing villages under Kutra and Rajgangpur Blocks. The company has sanitised offices, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK, MAY 4, 2021 Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd. (DCBL) has taken various initiatives to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in and around its Kapilas Cement Manufacturing Works (KCMW) at Tangi in Cuttack district. The company has set up a 15-bed quarantine centre which is being run by a team of trained doctors and nurses. The company ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 2, 2021 Keeping in view the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, the Odisha Government on Sunday announced to impose 14-day statewide lockdown starting from May 5, 2021. During this period, healthcare and other services will continue as usual. People will be allowed to purchase essential commodities within 500-metre radius of their residences between 6 am and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 28, 2021 KIIT Deemed to be University has become the first Indian university to achieve the “Five Stars Rating” from the prestigious QS Star Ratings System. The rating results were published on April 27, 2021. The QS Intelligence Unit, a division of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, rated KIIT as a Five Stars institution, the maximum achievable, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 22, 2021          Hindalco’s Aditya Aluminium is helping people of Lapanga Village in Sambalpur district to become self-reliant through its Project “Swabalmb”. The objective of this project is to hone the skills of the rural youngsters by imparting training in vocational skills, and make them employable. Since its commencement in October 2020 through the PPP mode, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 15, 2021 Aditya Aluminium, a unit of Aditya Birla Group’s metal flagship company Hindalco Industries, launched the ‘Jala Bahini’ scheme on Wednesday, to provide clean drinking water at the doorstep of 3,000 households across 52 villages under 6 gram panchayats of Rengali Block, during peak summer season. This initiative would provide 5,000 litres of safe drinking ...

TBB BUREAU CUTTACK, APRIL 12, 2021 In response to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s call for a 14-day ‘Mask Abhiyan’ to keep Covid-19 at bay, Odisha Stevedores Limited (OSL) has decided to distribute one lakh masks free of cost among people. In a special programme organised in front of OSL Corporate Office here on Monday, OSL Chairman Mahima Mishra launched the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 12, 2021 Notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic impact, the Odisha Regional Office of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has achieved a spectacular progress during the financial year (FY) 2020-21. Despite challenges due to the COVID pandemic, NABARD disbursed Rs.22,709crore during FY2020-21 under various products to commercial banks, cooperative banks, RRBs, besides state government ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APRIL 10, 2021 In a function organised at CEO’s Office on Friday, two exceptional achievers of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) family were felicitated by CEO Dipak Chattaraj, for excelling in their respective arena. The CEO felicitated Swasti Singh, the cycling sensation of the Steel City for her outstanding performance in the recently concluded 72nd National Track Cycling ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APRIL 10, 2021 “Last year, we were able to tackle the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic quite effectively. While the second wave has started spreading, let’s once again contain it with commitment, composure and constant communication,” urged Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) CEO Dipak Chattaraj, while chairing an online meeting of senior officers of the Steel Plant on ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 09, 2021             Highly experienced doctors at city-based Apollo Hospitals led by Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist Dr. Susant Kumar Sethi, and Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon Dr. Debasis Nayak and ENT Surgeon Dr. Suryakant Pradhan successfully managed three patients by combining endoscopic and surgical modalities recently. The first patient had a perforation in his food pipe ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 9, 2021 With Odisha’s daily Covid-19 cases rising at an alarming rate, East Coast Railway (ECoR) has made it compulsory for incoming travellers to produce a negative RT-PCR report on their arrival, to prevent adverse impact of cross border movement. According to an ECoR release, with effect from April 10, all Odisha-bound passengers boarding the train ...

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 PARADIP, APRIL 6, 2021 Reiterating its commitment to Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make in Odisha, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) has evinced interest to build a a port based container manufacturing unit at Paradip. JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal (second from left) with Paradip Port Trust officials, at Paradip on April 6, 2021 JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal during his ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, APR 2 With an aim to make the local youth employable, Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited in association with the National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (NABARD) on Friday kick-started a skill training program for the youth of Sundargarh district. As many as 60 boys and girls from Rajgangpur and Lanjiberna area have been enrolled in the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 2, 2021 Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT), the charitable wing of Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys (IMFA) group of industries, has invited nominations for the prestigious Ekalabya Puraskar-2021, the annual sports award for outstanding young sports person of the State which carries a cash prize of Rs. five lakh. Besides the main award, two citation ...

PRIYABRAT BISWAL BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 2, 2021             Mini-Ratna Company Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) which broke all its previous records by achieving the highest ever production and coal dispatch in the financial year 2020-21, has set a production target of 168 MT for FY 2021-22.             The Coal India Limited (CIL) subsidiary achieved highest ever production of 148.01 million tonnes (MT) ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 1, 2021 When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. The pandemic in FY 2020-21 had initially dampened the spirits of the railway men across the zone. With trains cancelled due to COVID-19 lockdown in the initial months of April, May and June, the loading figure by the end of July was -14% as compared ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 1, 2021 Are you discarding your old garments? Or, clothes spilling out of your wardrobe? Don’t worry. You can help somebody by donating them to the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) as the civic body today launched a one-of-its-kind initiative called ‘Wheel of Kindness’ to donate clothes to the poor, needy and homeless people living in the ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, APRIL 1, 2021 Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL) joined the State in celebrating the 86th Foundation Day of Odisha. Greeting the people of Odisha through social media platforms, JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal wrote “Heartiest congratulations and greetings to the people of Odisha on the 86th Statehood Day. May Lord Jagannath bless the State with happiness and ...

TBB BUREAU JODA, APRIL 1, 2021 With an objective to provide better medical facilities to the locals, Tata Steel dedicated an ambulance with advanced life support system to the people of Joda in a ceremony at Tata Steel Hospital, here today. Dr Sisir Kumari Patnaik, Gynecologist, Community Health Centre, Kamarjoda and Dr. Jagadish Sahu, Medical Officer, Community Health Centre, Kumarjoda ...

Paradip Port sets all-time record in cargo handling TBB BUREAU PARADIP, APRIL 1, 2021 The Paradip Port Trust (PPT) has created an all-time history for the Port by handling a record 114.55 million metric tonnes (MMT) of cargo in the Financial Year 2020-21. With this, PPT achieved the coveted 100 MMT of cargo handling for the fourth consecutive year. Sharing ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, MARCH 31, 2021 Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL) on Wednesday observed the 16th death anniversary of its founder Om Prakash Jindal (Bauji) with a special prayer and various charitable activities at Angul. In a programme held at Devbhoomi Temple, employees of JSPL led by Hridayeshwar Jha, Executive Director of the Angul unit, Damodar Mittal, Ravi Shankar ...

TBB BUREAU BARBIL, MARCH 31, 2021 Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) observed the 16th death anniversary of its founder Om Prakash Jindal at the pellet plant premises on Wednesday. Following strict Covid guidelines, a series of programmes were organised to commemorate the day. Barbil plant Head Brij Badhadra along with other department heads and colleagues paid floral tribute to ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 30, 2021            In a first in Odisha, the Nuclear Medicine team at the city-based Apollo Cancer Centres has successfully performed PET-guided biopsy recently. PET-guided biopsy is a unique modern technique of per-cutaneous biopsy procedure under PET-CT guidance. PET-guided biopsy is such a real time biopsy procedure which guides the interventional Nuclear Medicine physician to take ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 30, 2021 Keeping in view the growing health care needs of the people and the lack of super speciality facilities in Sundergarh region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Rourkela on April 1, 2015, had promised the people of this region to set up a Super Specialty Hospital at Ispat General Hospital (IGH).  In ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, MARCH 30, 2021 As part of its CSR initiative, Paradip Port Trust (PPT), in association with Santha Arakshita Das Foundation & Olasuni Gumpha Development Trust, organised a mega health camp at Balipadia, Jajpur on Sunday. PPT Deputy Chairman AK Bose inaugurated the camp in which over 1,000 patients were treated and given free medicines. A team led ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 30, 2021   The 24th National Federation Cup in Patiala earlier this month has provided the coaching staff at the Reliance Foundation (RF) Odisha Athletics High Performance Center (HPC) in Bhubaneswar further confidence that the meticulously crafted programme for athletes under their wing is on the right track. Two athletes from the HPC – Amlan Borgohain ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAR 27, 2021 As the ongoing projects under Sambalpur Railway Division is causing temporary inconvenience to people, railway authorities have appealed to citizens to bear with the adjustments as these are being undertaken keeping in mind the greater public interest. According to an East Coast Railway (ECoR) statement, thoroughfare on 1-8 Km stretch Sambalpur Road Station-Khetrajpur is ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 27, 2021 At a time when healthcare is on the top of the government’s policy checklist, the PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) mode has taken on an altogether new dimension in Hirakud of Sambalpur District. Hindalco, the flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, in partnership with the Govt Hirakud Hospital Sambalpur has taken a number of immunisation initiatives to ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 26, 2021 The Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai and TransStadia in Ahmedabad have been confirmed as host venues for the AFC Women’s Asian Cup India 2022, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Friday. The tournament will be held in India from January 20 to February 6, 2022. “The Asian Football ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 25, 2021 As many as 14 coal blocks in Odisha are among the 67 coal blocks which will be auctioned as the Centre on Thursday launched its second tranche of auction of commercial coal mining. Machhakata, Mahanadi, Nuagaon Telisahi, Ramchandi promotion block, Alaknanda, Bartap, Burapahar, Dip extension of Belpahar, Dip side of Chatabar, Kardabahal-Brahmanbil, Kosala West, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 25, 2021 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday laid the foundation stone for re-development of Kalinga Studio, here. The Studio will be developed spreading into three different Zones comprising infrastructure such as multi sized indoor shooting halls with all modern facilities, make-believe shooting locales, theme based parks, post-production facilities such as dubbing and mixing studio, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 25, 2021 KIIT & KISS fraternity felicitated CA Bhavani Devi, a KIIT student, who qualified for Tokyo Olympics 2021 in Fencing. She has earned the distinction of becoming the first-ever Indian to qualify for the Olympics in Fencing. A felicitation ceremony for the ace fencer was organized at KIIT-DU in presence of distinguished personalities including KITT ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/ RAIPUR, MARCH 24, 2021 India’s leading infrastructure steel manufacturer Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) has been awarded the most prestigious Resilient Supply Chain of the Year -Manufacturing Award at the 6th India Logistics & Supply Chain Awards 2020 held in Mumbai recently. Renowned industrialist Naveen Jindal-led  company’s smart solutions and approach got recognized as “The Resilient ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, MAR 24, 2021 Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL) celebrated the 10th Foundation Day of its Group Adventz on Tuesday. PPL chief Ranjit Singh Chugh inaugurated a number of events to mark the celebration. The day started with Swatchh Bharat initiative at Township, followed by mini marathon, cyclothon and plantation drive. Chugh also inaugurated a dedicated Mobile Health Unit ...

TBB BUREAU JODA, MAR 24, 2021 As part of its Affirmative Action Policy and efforts towards inclusive growth and development of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities, Tata Steel Foundation awarded ‘Jyoti Fellowship’ to 209 meritorious students of Joda and Khondbond region at a mega function today. Champua Sub-Collector Pratap Pritimaya graced the occasion as chief guest along ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 21, 2021 “For inclusive development of a country, strong socio-economic structure is necessary along with the industrial advancement,” said the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. Speaking on the occasion of inauguration of a Super Specialty Hospital in the Rourkela Steel Plant today, the President said that Rourkela Steel Plant has played a major role in ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 21, 2021  One objective of the National Education Policy is to make India a global knowledge super power in 21st century and institutions like NIT Rourkela have to play a major role in achieving these national aims, said the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, while addressing the 18th annual convocation of NIT Rourkela in Rourkela ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, MARCH 20, 2021 JSPL Foundation, the social arm of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (JSPL), carried out a slew of welfare activities to mark the birthday of Savitri Jindal Ji, Chairperson Emeritus of OP Jindal Group. The Foundation provided dry ration packets to the inmates of various care homes at Angul. Officials of Jindal Mahila Samiti, Angul ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 20, 2021 Following the International Chess Federation (FIDE)’s policy to include chess in school level study curriculum, the same is being executed in different nations across the world. In this context, All India Chess Federation (AICF) has also decided to include chess in school curriculum. Accordingly, AICF and All Odisha Chess Association (AOCA) have chosen Kalinga ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 20, 2021 Exclusive Motors Pvt. Ltd., the leader in the super luxury car market and pioneers in bringing super luxury and the most iconic brands to India, has brought the New Bentley Bentayga and New Flying Spur to the Capital City of Odisha to give the valued customers an opportunity to experience the luxury and comfort ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 18, 2021 State-run Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) today paid Rs 1,000 crore interim dividend to the State government for the financial year 2020-21. On behalf of OMC, State Steel & Mines Minister Prafulla Mallick handed over the cheque amounting to Rs 1,000 crore to Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra, in presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Among ...

TBB BUREAU BARBIL, MARCH 18, 2021 JSPL Foundation, the social arm of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL), on Wednesday awarded 60 rural women here for becoming community role models for their entrepreneurship skills. Recipients of JSPL Foundation-facilitated training in respective fields, the awardees of Deojhar and Kandra gram panchayats in Keonjhar district, have been able to bring a significant ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 17, 2021       The Odisha government on Wednesday requested the Union Health Ministry for inclusion of journalists and many categories of persons who are at risk of exposure to infection due to the nature of their work, as frontline workers for Covid-19 vaccination. In a letter to Union Health and Family Welfare Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, Odisha ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 17, 2021 The Industrial Policy of Odisha recognizes Apparel and Textiles, including Technical Textiles as one of the five Focus Sectors and a number of attractive fiscal and non-fiscal incentives for the promotion and development of the sector have been laid out, said Odisha Industry and MSME Minister Captain Dibya Shankar Mishra.  Speaking at the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 17, 2021 Sunil Kumar Satya has joined as Regional Executive Director (Eastern Region-II) NTPC Ltd. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Surat, Satya worked in Maruti Udyog Limited for one year before joining NTPC in the year 1987 as 12th batch Executive Trainee. He worked in various capacities in NTPC power plants such as Auraiya ...

L&T construction arm bags significant orders TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, MARCH 16, 2021 The construction arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has secured ‘significant’ orders for setting water and effluent treatment plants in Odisha and a cement plant in Rajasthan. The water & effluent treatment business of L&T Construction has secured EPC orders from the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 16, 2021 In line with the 2021 theme of International Women’s Day #ChooseToChallenge, Amway India, one of the country’s leading FMCG direct selling companies, is commemorating Women’s month with a gamut of women-centric programs across India. Corresponding to the global theme which signifies that a, “challenged world is an alert world, and challenge leads to change” ...