TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 17, 2021 Amresh Kumar has taken over as the Managing Director of Odisha Hydro Power Corporation Ltd.(OHPC), a Gold rated State PSU on Thursday. Prior to the new assignment, Kumar was serving as the Managing Director at Punatsangchhu-II Hydro power Authority, Bhutan. He was responsible for developing and executing the 1020 MW Hydroelectric Project in Inter-Government ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 16, 2021 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today lauded the newly launched scheme Rural Infrastructure Assistance to States (RIAS) of NABARD, hoping that the scheme would increase project based financing for various projects like roads, bridges and in-stream storage structure. The Chief Minister said this during a meeting with NABARD Chairman Dr. G.R. Chintala, who called ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 16, 2021 The Odisha government on Thursday urged the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to increase its loan assistance to Rs 10,000 crore for different schemes in the state. During an interactive session between the state government and NABARD at the Lok Seva Bhawan here today, Chief Secretary Suresh Mohapatra said that there ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 16, 2021 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday inaugurated the expansion of the existing Alumina refinery of Utkal Alumina located at Kashipur in Rayagada district. Situated at the tribal hinterland of Odisha, the expansion unit by the Aditya Birla group is built with an investment of Rs 1,500 crore which will improve the refinery’s annual ...

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, SEPT 16, 2021 On the occasion of the World Ozone Day on Thursday, Dalmia Cement (India) Limited in association with the Regional Office of Odisha State Pollution Control Board Rourkela (SPCB) organised an awareness programme related to ozone layer protection, and mass tree plantation in Dalmia Vidya Mandir premises, here. SPCB Environmental Engineer Babita Singh graced the ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 16, 2021 NALCO’s Panchpatmali Bauxite Mine has been awarded the prestigious Pollution Control Excellence Award 2021 by the State Pollution Control Board, Odisha, for effective pollution control measures and sound environment management practices. In a function held at the State Pollution Control Board, Odisha in Bhubaneswar, Minister for Forest & Environment Bikram KeshariArukha handed over the ...

TBB BUREAU JHARSUGUDA, SEPT 15, 2021 Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, has launched a safety mobile application called ‘V-Safe’ at its largest aluminium smelter in Jharsuguda in Odisha to bolster its safety culture. V-Safe is the latest digital intervention in a long line of technology-led augmentations that Vedanta Aluminium has deployed to ensure heightened safety ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, SEPT 14, 2021     Speed Force outplayed Outlaws and won the final match 1-0 to grab a place and represent Bhubaneswar in the national finals of the Red Bull Neymar Jr.’s Five, a globally established five-on-five football tournament which kicked off its Bhubaneswar qualifiers at KIIT, here on September 11. Red Bull Neymar Jr’s Five 2021 city ...

TBB BUREAU SAMBALPUR/TALCHER, SEPT 13, 2021 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) would be the top performing company in the coal sector by the end of the current financial year, said M Nagaraju, Additional Secretary in the Union Coal Ministry. Reviewing the performance of coal production and dispatch during his visit to Talcher Coalfields today, Nagaraju lauded MCL for ensuring growth in ...

TBB BUREAUBHUBANESWAR, SEPT 13, 2021East Coast Railway (ECoR) has earned the distinction of becoming the first railway to achieve 100 MT freight loading in the current financial year. ECoR loaded 100.30 MT of freight during April 1-September 10, 2021 period as against 77.58 MT carried in the corresponding period in the previous fiscal, registering a growth of 29.3 percent.It has ...