TBB BUREAU LANJIGARH, JUNE 16, 2021 The Lanjigarh Unit of Vedanta Limited has launched ‘Sashakti Suvidha Kendra’ to help local women sustain their livelihood through various challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Sashakti Suvidha Kendras are aimed at facilitating the marketing and sales of various products like turmeric, ragi, various spices, dry snacks, puffed rice, pulses, rice, paper plates, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 15, 2021 Edtech company WhiteHat Jr on Tuesday said it has partnered non-governmental organisation CRY – Child Rights and You to inspire children to create real-world mobile applications. As a part of this new partnership, CRY will recognize/certify participating WhiteHat Jr. students who create mobile apps furthering the cause of social impact. In addition, senior leaders ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 14, 2021      “It is mankind’s collective responsibility to reverse the damage to land caused by human activity. It is our sacred duty to leave a healthy planet for our future generations”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while delivering the keynote address at the UN “High-Level Dialogue on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought” via videoconferencing ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, JUNE 12, 2021 In line with its efforts to support Odisha’s fight against Covid-19, the Rajgangpur Unit of Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited [DCBL] has donated eight Oxygen Concentrators to the Sundargarh District Administration for the benefit of the people affected with the novel coronavirus. DCBL Rajgangpur Deputy Executive Director Saroj Kumar Rout and Corporate Affairs Department’s Sanjib ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 8, 2021 Converting the dreadful COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity, a handful of rural women from underprivileged communities in Bhubaneswar are raising vegetable gardens at home, with the support of SOS Children’s Villages of India (SOSCVI), a child care NGO, as a viable source of income during the lockdown that saw men, the primary breadwinners of ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 08, 2021 NITI Aayog and Piramal Foundation today launched the ‘Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan’ campaign in 112 Aspirational Districts to assist the district administrations in providing home-care support to Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. This campaign is under the special initiative – the Aspirational Districts Collaborative – in which local ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 5, 2021 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) joined the rest of the world in observing World Environment Day on Saturday. RSP CEO Dipak Chattaraj hoisted the Environment Flag at Shilpa Konark premises in presence of senior executives and employees of the company. The Environment pledge was administered to all present on the occasion. Environment badges were also ...

TBB BUREAU BARBIL, JUNE 5, 2021 Commemorating World Environment Day 2021 on the theme ‘Ecosystem Restoration’, Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) organised a massive plantation programme in the residential area and pellet plant premises at Barbil on Saturday. Adhering to COVID guidelines and maintaining physical distancing, more than 100 workers, employees and their family members of various age groups ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 4, 2021 Vedanta, one of the world’s leading Oil & Gas and Metals companies, will launch a mega green cover initiative to commemorate World Environment Day on Saturday. As part of the Vedanta Cares Green Cover initiative, which will be virtually inaugurated by Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal, the company’s employees and business partners will be able ...

TBB BUREAU BARBIL, JUNE 4, 2021 JSPL Foundation, the social arm of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) has come forward to support the needy and struggling farming community in this global pandemic and distributed fertilizer among them for the Kharif paddy cultivation. About 60 marginal and Covid-hit farmers of nearby villages under Deojhar and Kandra gram panchayats of Keonjhar ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 2, 2021 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), the apex regulatory body for overall regulation and licensing of regional rural banks and apex cooperative banks in India, has sanctioned Rs 254 crore to Odisha under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for setting up of two mega piped drinking water supply projects, official sources said. ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 There is a special joy in the ‘Art of Giving’ and Prof. Achyuta Samanta, the founder of KIIT & KISS, has made it to another global fame for his obsessive bend towards humanitarian causes. His ‘Art of Giving’ has won the second position in the 2021 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship by Talloires Network ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 The Bhubaneswar Circle of the State Bank of India (SBI) and SBI Foundation today donated a Covid Testing Van and medical equipment including masks, hand gloves and sanitizers to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) for management of Covid-19 in the capital city. SBI Bhubaneswar Circle Chief General manager Ruma Dey handed over the van and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 20, 2021 Keeping in view the second upsurge of the Covid-19, the Aditya Birla Group company, Hindalco has come forward to extend support to the Sambalpur District Covid Hospital and the VIMSAR (Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research). On the request of the District Administration, Hindalco has donated 50 jumbo cylinders, 20 oxygen ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 20, 2021 As part of its support to the fight against the second wave of COVID pandemic, Vedanta Aluminium has supplied 2000 filled medical oxygen cylinders to the Government of Odisha on Thursday. The medical oxygen cylinders were handed over to the state government here today in presence of Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha ...

TBB BUREAU TIKIRI/BHUBANESWAR, MAY 19, 2021 In its relentless efforts to fight against COVID-19, Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a unit of Hindalco Industries of Aditya Birla Group, has donated 30 oxygen concentrators, 30 oxygen jumbo cylinders, 100 pulse oximeters, 100 thermometers and 12 thermal guns to the District Headquarters Hospital, Rayagada to safeguard the people of the district from the ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR, MAY 17, 2021   Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added aluminium products, has on the occasion of International Day of Families, extended the COVID Kavach Term Insurance Policy for employees of business partners across its plants in Jharsuguda and Lanjigarh in Odisha, and BALCO in Korba, Chhattisgarh. Ajay Kapur, CEO – ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 11, 2021 Aditya Birla Group company Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) is engaged in meaningful welfare initiatives in communities living in proximity of its plant. One of its initiatives “Project Saksham” is reaching out to the unemployed rural women and helping them become self-reliant through income generation. Since its commencement in February 2015, it has trained ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 11, 2021 National Technology Day 2021 on May 11 celebrates the achievements and contributions of Indians to science and technology. This day serves as a reminder of India breaking into the elite group of nations with nuclear weapons. On May 11, 1998, India conducted three successful nuclear tests at the Indian Army’s Pokhran Test Range in ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 7, 2021 With a massive population seeking jobs, skilling youth becomes highly important to make them employment ready, while providing a skilled talent pool to industries and enterprises to add to their workforce. As India grapples with the socioeconomic and health impact of the pandemic for over a year now, skilling Indian youth for the big ...

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 NEW DELHI, MAY 5, 2021 Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business has accelerated the COVID vaccination initiative and vaccinated over 7,500 of its people across its plants located in Odisha and Chhattisgarh. With over 550 beds, Vedanta’s COVID Care Centres at Jharsuguda and Lanjigarh in Odisha, and BALCO in Korba, Chhattisgarh, are equipped with required infrastructure and medical personnel ...

TBB BUREAU LANJIGARH, MAY 3, 2021 The Lanjigarh Unit of Vedanta Limited, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, has come forward to support the Government and District Administration in their fight against COVID-19. As part of its corporate social responsibility, the unit has provided 100 sets of RT-PCR Test kits to the District Headquarters Hospital, Bhawanipatna. With each set ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, MAY 1, 2021 As India grapples with an unprecedented new wave of the Covid Pandemic, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has scaled up its production of medical grade liquid oxygen, thus becoming the country’s largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location in just over a year’s time. Traditionally, Reliance is not a manufacturer of medical ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 30, 2021 SOS Children’s Villages India has announced that it is ready to provide short or long-term care to vulnerable children across the country whose safety, security, and well-being have been severely affected because of losing parental care due to the Covid-19 pandemic and have no caregivers left to provide parental for them. “In these ...

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 JHARSUGUDA, APRIL 27, 2021 India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, Vedanta Ltd, supports four schools of the Jharsuguda district through the Odisha Government’s “Mo School Abhiyaan”. The company has contributed Rs. 80 lakh to the revamping of government high schools including PS High School, Kolabira; CDB Nodal High School, Parmanpur; BD High School, Baghmara; and GP ...

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 NEW DELHI, APRIL 13, 2021  In a bid to strengthen its rural presence and move closer to the customers in the remote areas, Renault India today announced its partnership with CSC Grameen eStore, a subsidiary of CSC eGovernance Services India Limited (CSC-SPV). As a part of the partnership, Renault India’s leading product range will be listed on the ...

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 NEW DELHI, APRIL 12  Vedanta, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for value-creation from bauxite residue (red mud), which is a by-product generated during processing of bauxite into alumina using the Bayer process. Bauxite is the primary ore for aluminium, that undergoes an intermediate refining stage to produce ...

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 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 BARBIL, APRIL 9, 2021 “Whether you win or not, but always strive to give your best in every challenge and let the rest go. Because you are worth your best effort,” said JSPL Foundation Chairperson Shallu Jindal, while interacting with Wushu players belonging to the tribal predominant region, here on Thursday. Encouraging the players to stay focused on ...

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, 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 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 NEW DELHI, MARCH 22, 2021 The Centre has made a co-contribution amount of Rs 57,078.22 lakh disbursed till February 2021 under Atal Pension Yojana, informed Anurag Singh Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. The Minister further stated that the Central Government co-contributes 50 ...

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 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 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” ...

TBB BUREAU BARBIL/KEONJHAR, MARCH 15, 2021 JSW Steel Limited has organized a selection trial for the young football trainees from Jajang Mines region in Keonjhar district. The selection process was carried out on March 12 in presence of the selection committee members. The committee comprised of Birendra Kumar Mahanta, national level Football Coach, Sukumari Laguri, National level Football player and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 15, 2021 As the world gradually recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, we have an opportunity to build a cleaner, greener and more prosperous world, said a senior official of the British Deputy High Commission in Kolkata. “We are at a turning point for our planet. As we recover from COVID-19, we have a unique and priceless ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAR 13 Over 400 members of local self help groups (SHGs) attended a programme organised by Aditya Aluminium, Lapanga at Maliatkra Playground of Lapanga GP on the occasion of International Women’s Day. These SHGs, supported by Aditya Aluminium, Lapanga under Mission Shakti, are working to build a healthy and empowered society in COVID-19 world. Sambalpur District Social ...

TBB BUREAU JHARSUGUDA, MAR 12 Vedanta Aluminium celebrated International Women’s Day at its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, and aluminium & power operations at Jharsuguda. As part of the celebrations, various interactive sessions, awareness drives and community engagement activities like mass plantation, week-long menstrual hygiene awareness campaign, etc. were conducted. The commemoration started with Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 6, 2021 “It is high time that women get their due for their contribution to the society and treated at par with men, if we want to prosper as a country. Basic rights and opportunities should not have a gender demarcation. This learning should begin at home at the earliest age possible,” said Dr. Mona Lisa ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 5, 2021 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday inaugurated India’s first and one-of-its-kind World Skill Centre (WSC) at Mancheswar Industrial Area here, describing it as a milestone that adds a new chapter in skill ecosystem of Odisha. The WSC will be a premier institute to impart advanced skills and create globally employable youth in the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 4, 2021 A high-level delegation team led by Bruno Bosle, Country Director, AgenceFrançaise de Développement (AFD) in India visited the Capital City of Odisha today to take the overview of the City Investments to Innovate Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS) projects in the city. The delegation included Thomas Salez, Economic Counsellor-Energy and Industry Division from the Regional ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, FEBRUARY 23, 2021 Dalmia Bharat Foundation (DBF), the CSR wing of Dalmia Bharat Group, felicitated 20 trainees from Dalmia Institute of Knowledge & Skill Harnessing (DIKSHa) who secured placement with KITEX Garments Pvt Ltd in Tamil Nadu at an average annual salary of Rs. 162,000. The trainees will soon travel from Jharsuguda to join their new workplace. ...