Category: Coal

Supreme Court has on Monday sought response of the central government within a week on a plea challenging the order of the Calcutta High Court that allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe a case pertaining to illegal mining and transportation of coal through Railways in West Bengal, without the state’s consent. A […]

India’s coal import registered a drop of 11.59 per cent to 180.84 million tonnes (MT) in the first 10 months of the ongoing fiscal. The company had imported 204.55 MT of coal in April-January period of the previous fiscal year, according to provisional data compiled by mjunction services. mjunction — a joint venture of Tata […]

Delhi may have cleaned up its act by banning coal, but it is allowed in the rest of National Capital Region (NCR). Coal-based industries are still considered a major source of pollution in the region, highlights State of India’s Environment 2021, a report released by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Thursday. The report […]

Two labourers working in a coal block in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district were killed when a portion of the roof of the mine collapsed on them, an official said on Wednesday. The accident took place on Tuesday in the Moonidih Coal Project area of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) under the Putki police station limits, he […]

Reliance Industries has sought bids for gas from its coal bed methane block in Madhya Pradesh. Bids have been invited for sale of 0.82 million metric standard cubic meters a day (mmscmd) of gas for a period of one year beginning April 1, according to public notice by the company. Bidders are expected to quote […]

A CBI team visited the residence of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday to examine his wife Rujira in the coal pilferage case, officials said. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the residence of her nephew Abhishek in south Kolkata’s Harish Mukherjee Road minutes before the CBI team landed there. The CBI’s visit to Abhishek’s […]

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a fresh chargesheet here under the anti-money laundering law in a coal blocks allocation scam probe case against a Jharkhand-based company and its directors. The central probe agency said in a statement that the supplementary chargesheet or prosecution complaint was filed before a special courtagainst Domco Pvt Ltd, its […]

The Confederation of Indian Industry’s Goa chapter met Ramesh Kumar, chairman of Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) to discuss the port’s operations and future plans, particularly cargo movement and passenger traffic. CII’s logistics panel also took stock of the coal-handling operations at MPT as part of an effort to create awareness about the need for rail, […]

Coal-fired brick kilns cannot be allowed to operate in the NCR even if zig-zag technology is used and improved procedures are followed during ‘severe’ pollution, the National Green Tribunal has said. Unless there is a change to a cleaner fuel (PNG), brick kilns beyond the number specified cannot be allowed in the NCR, the green […]

India’s use of coal may have peaked in 2018, according to a new report by U.K.-based clean energy group Ember. That’s sooner than many experts have forecast. The share of the dirtiest fossil fuel in India’s power mix fell for the second year in a row in 2020, according to the report released on Tuesday, […]

Two reports on Tuesday looked into coal demand in India’s electricity mix and global financial flows moving to renewable energy industry. A week earlier, International Energy Agency’s (IEA) India energy outlook said India would need a massive investment of $1.4 trillion if it were to aim for net zero by mid 2060. Much of this […]

State-run miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) today said it managed to save Rs 1,838 crore revenue expenditure, around 3.3 per cent of total capex, in the first nine months (April-December) of the current financial year even as production from opencast mines jumped 16.1 per cent. “This is the sum of the over burden (OB) excavated […]