The Business Bytes

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAR 16, 2023 Emphasising that Indian banking system is resilient and strong, Union Minister of State for Electronics & IT and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday said startups should therefore, opt for Indian banks as their preferred banking partners.  “Today what is attractive about the banking system is not their appetite to take ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAR 16, 2023 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on his being conferred with the ‘Governor of the year’ award in the Central Banking Awards 2023. Sharing news of CNBC TV18, the Prime Minister tweeted;  “It is a matter of immense pride for our country that the @RBI ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAR 16, 2023 With the aim of facilitating farmers and traders in providing low interest rate loans, Warehousing Development Regulatory Authority (WDRA) exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Thursday in the presence of WDRA Chairperson TK Manoj Kumar, its Member Mukesh Kumar Jain, PNB Managing Director & CEO Atul ...

TBB BUREAU ZURICH (SWITZERLAND), MAR 16, 2023 Gianni Infantino will serve a second term as FIFA President after being re-elected unopposed to lead global football’s governing body for another four years, during the 73rd FIFA Congress in Kigali, Rwanda. He will serve from 2023 to 2027.  “Being FIFA President is an incredible honour, an incredible privilege, and it is also ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAR 16, 2023 “With the launch of the Digital India Programme in 2015, a single dimensional, digital economy that we inherited in 2014 has become a broad-based, high growth digital economy having multiple asynchronous components that are all growing rapidly and creating innovation in their wake,” said Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR, MAR 16, 2023           Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up 100 smart classrooms in Jharsuguda, Sundargarh and Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha. The MoU signed by General Manager (CSR) on behalf of MCL and Assistant Manager (Project In-charge (Digital Education Services) on the behalf of EdCIL (India) Ltd., a Government ...

The clinical services in Radiation Oncology Department at KIMS Cancer Centre (KCC)-Bhubaneswar has started from Tuesday with the practice of state-of-the-art linear accelerator-based radiotherapy for cancer patients and the related research works. KCC is poised to become the first resource-appropriate unique cancer management centre in Odisha for the multi-speciality treatments of all types of cancers. The highly precision linear accelerators ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAR 16, 2023 The Union Steel Ministry will sign MoUs with selected companies under PLI scheme for specialty steel on Friday. As many as 57 MoUs from 27 companies covering 20 sub-categories will be signed during the event to be held at Vigyan Bhawan, here. Union Steel and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, senior officials from ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAR 16, 2023 Dalmia Cement Bharat Ltd. (DCBL) has announced the launch of SADRI.e brand to market handmade products by Self Help Group (SHG) women members under their community skill development initiative – Project Hastakala. Sadri is a local tribal language and the brand aims to honour the culture and spirit of these tribal women in the ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, MAR 16, 2023 The Tarikere Drip Irrigation Project Phase II farmers, using drip fertigation, have witnessed enhanced water productivity and fertilizer use efficiencies. The technology led to significantly enhanced water productivity of 90 per cent, fertilizer use efficiency by 30 to 40 per cent while considerably decreased crop evapotranspiration by 9 -10 per cent, compared to farmers’ ...