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Reliance Industries becomes largest producer of medical Oxygen

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, MAY 1, 2021 As India grapples with an unprecedented new wave of the Covid Pandemic, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has scaled up its production of medical grade liquid oxygen, thus becoming the country’s largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location in just over a year’s time. Traditionally, Reliance is not a manufacturer of medical ...

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Covid-19: SOS Children’s Villages opens doors to children missing parental care

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 30, 2021 SOS Children’s Villages India has announced that it is ready to provide short or long-term care to vulnerable children across the country whose safety, security, and well-being have been severely affected because of losing parental care due to the Covid-19 pandemic and have no caregivers left to provide parental for them. “In these ...

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UK sends oxygen factories to help India in fight against Covid-19

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 ...

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Vedanta supports four district schools under ‘Mo School Abhiyaan’

TBB BUREAU JHARSUGUDA, APRIL 27, 2021 India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, Vedanta Ltd, supports four schools of the Jharsuguda district through the Odisha Government’s “Mo School Abhiyaan”. The company has contributed Rs. 80 lakh to the revamping of government high schools including PS High School, Kolabira; CDB Nodal High School, Parmanpur; BD High School, Baghmara; and GP ...

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Aditya Aluminium’s ‘Swabalamb’ Project makes people self-reliant

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 22, 2021          Hindalco’s Aditya Aluminium is helping people of Lapanga Village in Sambalpur district to become self-reliant through its Project “Swabalmb”. The objective of this project is to hone the skills of the rural youngsters by imparting training in vocational skills, and make them employable. Since its commencement in October 2020 through the PPP mode, ...

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Aditya Aluminum launches ‘Jala Bahini’ to provide clean drinking water

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 15, 2021 Aditya Aluminium, a unit of Aditya Birla Group’s metal flagship company Hindalco Industries, launched the ‘Jala Bahini’ scheme on Wednesday, to provide clean drinking water at the doorstep of 3,000 households across 52 villages under 6 gram panchayats of Rengali Block, during peak summer season. This initiative would provide 5,000 litres of safe drinking ...

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Renault India sets new benchmark in rural outreach

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 13, 2021  In a bid to strengthen its rural presence and move closer to the customers in the remote areas, Renault India today announced its partnership with CSC Grameen eStore, a subsidiary of CSC eGovernance Services India Limited (CSC-SPV). As a part of the partnership, Renault India’s leading product range will be listed on the ...

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Odisha Stevedores Limited to distribute 1 lakh masks

TBB BUREAU CUTTACK, APRIL 12, 2021 In response to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s call for a 14-day ‘Mask Abhiyan’ to keep Covid-19 at bay, Odisha Stevedores Limited (OSL) has decided to distribute one lakh masks free of cost among people. In a special programme organised in front of OSL Corporate Office here on Monday, OSL Chairman Mahima Mishra launched the ...

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Vedanta inks pact with research institutes for value-creation from bauxite residue

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 12  Vedanta, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for value-creation from bauxite residue (red mud), which is a by-product generated during processing of bauxite into alumina using the Bayer process. Bauxite is the primary ore for aluminium, that undergoes an intermediate refining stage to produce ...

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Govt may hike pension sector FDI limit to 74 per cent

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 ...

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