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TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 2, 2021 To attract the leading sports goods and equipment manufacturers, the Odisha government is now keen on making the sports goods manufacturing sector a priority sector and bringing a fresh policy to attract the sports, fitness and wellness sector companies, a senior official said on Thursday. Principal Secretary, Industries, Hemant Sharma said this while speaking ...

PRIYABRAT BISWAL BHUBANESWAR, DEC 2, 2021 Earning enough to sustain his five-member family was not an easy task for Nimai Charan Mohanty, a farmer from Giria Village under Rajkanika Block of Kendrapara District in Odisha. Forty-five-year old Nimai is a small farmer who holds 3.5 acres of agricultural land in which he grows paddy in Kharif season and vegetables like ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 2, 2021 A training programme on “Waste to Wealth,’ sustainable organic farming techniques was introduced at Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) recently. PK Satapathy, ED (P&A) of RSP and  Prof. Simanchalo Panigrahi, Director, NIT Rourkela were present at the inaugural function organized at Institute for Peripheral Development, Sector-20 and inaugurated the Vermicompost Unit to mark the commencement ...

TBB BUREAU KANIHA, DEC 2, 2021 NTPC Talcher Kaniha organised a two-day state level painting competition on ‘Energy Conservation’ on behalf of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency under the Union Ministry of Power. Students from classes V to X, of DAV Public School, Kendriya Vidyalaya and Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir participated in the event. The painting competition was conducted under ...

TBB BUREAU BENGALURU, DEC 2, 2021 Leading end-to-end drone solutions startup AUS acquired Algopixel Technologies, a Bengaluru-based software solution provider for drone operation management and cloud-based data processing for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition will accelerate AUS’s journey towards building robust and scalable end-to-end solutions for sectors like mining, infrastructure, land records, and precision farming. Algopixel was founded by Abhiroop ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, DEC 2, 2021 Coastal Corporation Limited today announced that it has started work on its Ethanol Plant. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik performed groundbreaking ceremony of the plant at Maringhi Village in Gajapati District of Odisha on Tuesday. Coastal Biotech Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coastal Corporation Limited will set up an ethanol project with ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 2, 2021 India’s leading digital ecosystem for consumers and merchants Paytm today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of General Training, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to train 6000 individuals over a period of three years in the rapidly growing Fintech industry. This is in continuation with Paytm’s dedication to building ...

TBB BUREAU ANGUL, DEC 1, 2021 JSPL Foundation, the CSR arm of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) observed the World AIDS Day-2021 at different places of Angul District. The field functionaries of JSPL Foundation, along with the representatives of Odisha State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) and Utkal Sevak Samaj sensitised the community about the consequences of HIV/AIDS and its ...

TBB BUREAU JHARSUGUDA, DEC 1, 2021 The Jharsuguda Unit of Vedanta Limited has entered into a long-term partnership with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for supplying fly-ash for construction of green highways in and around Odisha. Fly-ash being an industrial by-product generated at thermal power plants, this partnership aims at ensuring gainful utilization of industrial by-products in circular ...

TBB BUREAU CHHATRAPUR, DEC 1, 2021 In a bid to ensure improved health and well-being of communities, Gopalpur Ports Limited (GPL), under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, today inaugurated a newly constructed primary health check-up centre building at Takiria, Berhampur.  The health check-up centrewas inaugurated by Ganjam Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange in the presence of Gopalpur Port Chief Executive ...