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 ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 22, 2021 Department of Posts will be organising Universal Postal Union (UPU)’s 2021 International Letter Writing Competition for Young People in all States of the country through the respective Postal Circle Offices. The subject for the Competition is “Write a letter to a family member about your experience with COVID-19” and shall be open to ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 22, 2021 Calling upon to step up water conservation efforts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the better India manages rainwater, the lesser the country’s dependence on groundwater. Launching the ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain’ campaign on World Water Day today via videoconferencing, the Prime Minister said that the challenge of the ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 21, 2021 “For inclusive development of a country, strong socio-economic structure is necessary along with the industrial advancement,” said the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. Speaking on the occasion of inauguration of a Super Specialty Hospital in the Rourkela Steel Plant today, the President said that Rourkela Steel Plant has played a major role in ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 19, 2021 Experts have underlined the importance of sleep for physical and mental wellbeing on World Sleep Day on Friday. The Shri Ram Chandra Mission (Heartfulness Institute) organised a well-being webinar “A capsule of energy – Yoga practices and sleep” as part of Yoga for Unity and Well-being programme by Heartfulness Institute being held in the ...