Union Power Minister R K Singh has asked to ramp up coal supply to thermal power projects in view of rising demand of electricity in the country, an official release said on Saturday. A core management team (CMT) has been constituted to closely monitor the coal stocks at power plants and Power Secretary Alok Kumar […]
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Coal Scam: ED summons TMC minister Moloy Ghatak
THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate (ED) has summoned West Bengal Minister Moloy Ghatak in connection with its ongoing probe into a coal pilferage case. The agency is investigating the money-laundering aspect of the case, sources said, adding that Ghatak has been asked to appear before it on September 14 in Delhi. The agency had recently summoned Trinamool […]
Coal ‘scam’: Rujira says unable to travel to Delhi, cites Covid in reply to ED notice
Responding to summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged coal pilferage scam case, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira has expressed inability to appear before the agency’s office in Delhi citing the Covid situation. The ED had summoned Abhishek, the Diamond Harbour MP, and his wife for questioning […]
Centre using agencies as they can’t fight us politically: Mamata Banerjee after ED summons Abhishek
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday alleged that the central government was using agencies to fight the Trinamool Congress as they can’t fight the party politically. Banerjee’s comments comes in the backdrop of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoning her nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife for questioning in a money laundering case […]
ED summons to Abhishek Banerjee, wife; Mamata Banerjee says agencies ‘let loose’
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned senior Trinamool Congress leader and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira for questioning in connection with a case of money laundering associated with alleged pilferage of coal from Eastern Coalfield Limited mines. Abhishek, an MP from Diamond Harbour, has been asked to appear before […]
ED summons WB CM’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, his wife in money laundering case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned MP Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, and his wife for questioning in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in the state, officials said on Saturday. Abhishek Banerjee represents the Diamond Harbour seat in Lok Sabha and is also the national […]
India exports 8 lakh tonnes of coal to neighbouring countries in FY’21
India exported 8 lakh tonnes of coal to its neighbouring nations, including Nepal, in the fiscal year ended March 2021. Of the said quantity, the maximum 77.20 per cent was exported to Nepal, followed by 13.04 per cent to Bangladesh, according to the Coal Ministry’s Provisional Coal Statistics 2020-21. “Although, there was short supply of […]
CAG report indicts TN govt under AIADMK regime for losses worth crores
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India’s report has flagged undue benefit to contractors, extra and wasteful expenditure besides loss to exchequer all together running into crores of rupees, in its audit on Tamil Nadu government undertakings tabled in the Assembly on Thursday. These were related to electricity monolith Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation […]
Meghalaya minister asks Centre to rethink green clearance to mining project in state
Meghalaya Cabinet minister Hamletson Dohling, has written to Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar to reconsider the clearance given by the ministry for expansion of limestone mining in the state’s East Jaintia Hills. In his letter to Javadekar sent on Monday, Dohling has said: “With great pain I write to you regarding issuance of Environmental Clearance […]
Meghalaya mine: Rescuers wait for water level to drop more; 5 trapped for 11 days
The water level inside an illegal coal mine where five miners remain trapped for the past 11 days in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district has come down to an extent, but that is not enough for the rescuers to start operations inside, an official said on Thursday. He said that the dewatering process is on […]
5 trapped after explosion in Meghalaya mine
FIVE WORKERS, four from Assam and one from Tripura, went missing after an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills (EJH) district got flooded following a dynamite explosion on Sunday evening, police said. Jagpal Singh Dhanoa, SP of EJH district, said, “The main culprit, according to the eyewitnesses is the ‘sordar’ Nizam Ali, who […]
Dispute over a coal mine pits Poland against its neighbors
The huge hole in the ground, dug ever deeper and wider by generations of Polish strip miners feeding their country’s voracious appetite for coal, has devoured a dozen villages and nibbled away at land and homes in a 19th-century spa town on its rim. The hole has grown so big, sucking in water from miles […]