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TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 5, 2021 Poonam Gupta has been appointed as the Director General of country’s largest economic think-tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). Gupta who is currently working as a lead economist with the World Bank, will be the first woman Director General of NCAER, and will assume office on July 1, 2021. Gupta holds ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 5, 2021 With successful completion of trial operations by Unit 2 (660 MW) capacity in Stage 2 (2X660MW) of Tanda Super Thermal Power Station in Uttar Pradesh, the NTPC said that its installed capacity has risen to 65,810 MW. NTPC is striving to achieve highest reliability and efficiency keeping safety and environment issues on top, ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 5, 2021 Riding on robust domestic demand, attractive export markets and a wide range of products, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) has ended the financial year 2020-21 on a strong note with sales touching a new high of 786,000 tonnes in March 2021, a growth of 61 per cent on year-on-year (y-o-y) basis. With ...

TBB BUREAU GURUGRAM, APRIL 5, 2021 Expanding its Galaxy F Series, Samsung on Monday launched Galaxy F12 and Galaxy F02s smartphones in India. Galaxy F12, available in Sea Green, Sky Blue and Celestial Black colours and two memory variants – 4GB/64GB and 4GB/128GB –is priced at Rs 10,999 and Rs 11,999, respectively. It comes with a True 48MP quad camera ...

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 ...