The Business Bytes

TBB BUREAU GOA, NOV 25 FC Goa on Wednesday announced JK Lakshmi Cement as an Associate Sponsor for the Club for the 2020-21 season of the Indian Super League. As part of the partnership, JK Lakshmi Cement will appear on the right sleeve of the FC Goa shirt for the entirety of the ISL season. The cement brand was the ...

PRIYABRAT BISWAL BHUBANESWAR, NOV 25 Odisha-based Shiva Cement Ltd, a subsidiary of JSW Cement Ltd, has announced plans to invest over Rs 1,500 crore in a new 1.36 million tonne per annum (mtpa) clinker unit project in Sundergarh district of the state. This project also includes setting up of a 1 MTPA grinding unit; 8 MW waste heat recovery power ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, NOV 25 Over 40 lakh new subscribers have been enrolled under the Atal Pension Yojana (APY), government’s pension scheme, so far this fiscal year, said a release. With the new additions, the total enrolments under the APY have crossed 2.63 crore, said the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) in the release. APY is a ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, NOV 25, 2020 Volkswagen India strengthens its leadership team with the internal movement of Priyesh Kumar, currently Head of Dealer Development as the new Head of Sales; and Head of After Sales P. Ravichandran as the Head of Dealer Development. Both Kumar and Ravichandran will directly report to Ashish Gupta, Brand Head, Volkswagen Passenger Cars India. They ...

PRIYABRAT BISWAL BHUBANESWAR, NOV 24 Globally renowned hygiene brand Livinguard AG has partnered with legendary cricketer and current President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Sourav Ganguly to be its brand ambassador for masks and gloves. As a leader and role model in the world of cricket and beyond, Sourav Ganguly exemplifies the ethos of the Livinguard ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, NOV 21 Renowned film and stage actor and director Naseeruddin Shah has been awarded the coveted Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikhar Puraskar-2020 at the Sangit Kala Kendra Awards function held in virtual mode today. Addressing the audience, Sangit Kala Kendra (SKK) President Rajashree Birla expressed SKK’s great pride in naming Naseeruddin Shah for the coveted Kalashikhar Puraskar. “Mr. Naseeruddin Shah is an iconic actor.  His breakthrough ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, NOV 20 Home-grown digital financial services platform Paytm on Friday announced that within a year of launching the LPG cylinder bookings service, it has registered over 5 million bookings. With this, Paytm has become the largest enabler of LPG cylinder bookings in the country. Paytm started ‘Book a Cylinder’ facility last year by partnering with HP Gas, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, NOV 20 Metals flagship of Aditya Birla Group, Hindalco Industries has been ranked the Aluminium Industry Leader for its sustainability performance in the 2020 edition of the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Corporate Sustainability Assessment rankings. Out of 61 Industries represented in the DJSI, Hindalco is the only company from India to be recognised as an ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, NOV 19 “Unlike the industrial era, first-mover does not matter, the best-mover does matter in the information era,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while inaugurating the Tech Summit in Bengaluru via videoconference today. “Achievements of the industrial era are past, and now we are in the middle of the information era. In the industrial era, change ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, NOV 19 In the last 24 hours, 45,576 persons were found to be infected with COVID in India. During the same period, India has registered 48,493 new recoveries ensuring a net reduction of 2917 cases from the Active Caseload. The new recoveries continue to overtake the daily new cases continuously since the past 47 days. India’s ...