TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 1, 2021 As a special dispensation, the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance at the recommendation of Ministry of Home Affairs has released in advance of the normal schedule the first instalment of the central share of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) of Rs 8873.6 crore for the year 2021-22 to all the States, ...

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 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 BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 8, 2021 Since March 2021, the daily cases of Covid-19 have been rising and have hit a 5-month high, with the maximum active cases reported from Maharashtra. One of the primary reasons behind the sudden spike is the complacency among the public about wearing masks and maintaining basic COVID protocols. To help control the increasing numbers ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 7 India’s largest producer of the aluminium and its value-added products, Vedanta Aluminium & Power Business is fostering hundreds of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in remote rural areas with its innovative ‘waste to wealth’ programmes. ‘Waste to wealth’ projects form a key pillar of Vedanta’s sustainability agenda which is centred around ‘Zero Harm, ...

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 BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 28, 2021 Banks will conduct special clearing operations exclusively for government cheques on March 31 to facilitate accounting of all the government transactions for the current fiscal. In a notification to all scheduled banks along with small finance banks and the National Payments Corporation of India, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said that it is mandatory ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 23, 2021 The Union Government today allowed people above 45 years to get vaccinated against coronavirus from April 1. “It has been decided that from 1st April, the vaccine will open for everybody above 45 years of age. We request that all eligible should immediately register and get vaccinated,” said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar about the ...

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 ...