Category: Coal

Twenty-five people have been treated for burns after walking on hot coal in northern Switzerland, according to police. Emergency services were alerted to injuries at a private event on the Au peninsula on Lake Zurich on Tuesday evening, Zurich canton (state) police said in a statement. They said that 25 people were given medical treatment […]

An FIR has been registered against BJP leader and former IAS officer OP Chaudhary for allegedly circulating a fake video on social media regarding coal theft in a Coal India mine in Chhattisgarh’s Korba, police said. On Saturday, a First Information Report (FIR) against Chaudhary was filed on the complaint of Congress leader Madhusudan Das […]

State-owned CIL on Friday floated two medium-term tenders for sourcing 6 million tonnes (MT) of coal from overseas, a move aimed at securing domestic fuel supplies amid the fear of shortage during monsoon. These two tenders for a total of 6 million tonnes coal have an option of increasing the bid quantity by 100 per […]

TAKING A cue from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), banks are likely to decide against funding the working capital requirements of 13 imported coal-fired power plants — key to the Union power ministry’s proposal on revival of these units as part of an extended range of measures to tide over the continuing electricity shortage. […]

The use of coal as a fuel will be banned across the National Capital Region (NCR) with effect from January 1, 2023, according to the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM). For regions where infrastructure for and supply of piped natural gas (PNG) is already available, the ban on the use of coal will come […]

Standing firm on his decision to allow mining in Hasdeo Aranya forests in the state even as people from his own party as well as the Opposition have joined protests along with local people, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday said “certain people” are trying to spread misinformation on the mining projects. Addressing the […]

The urgency to implement the Provisions of the Panchayat Extension of Scheduled Act (PESA) in Jharkhand, the immediacy of involving gram sabhas in decentralising development and the plan to think about a parallel economy once the coal power is phased down in the next few decades. These were some of the key points that emerged […]

The Chhattisgarh Congress’s Surguja district unit has joined local residents against its own party’s government over the felling of trees in the Hasdeo Aranya forest for mining projects. An extension of Parsa East Kente Basan (PEKB) coal block and an adjacent coal block in Parsa are to be mined for the Rajasthan government by Adani […]

The Centre has asked states to immediately start importing coal to meet power requirements and to lift coal by road as failure to do so may lead to shortages in such states during the monsoon. Power Minister RK Singh has written to chief ministers of all states which have not started the process of coal […]

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF ) has strongly opposed the “arm-twisting tactics” of Union Power Minister, RK Singh, who recently had threatened to impose penalties on state power discoms, who failed to follow the Centre’s norm of meeting 10% of their fuel requirement with . The minister had said that his department would […]

The Centre has asked states to immediately start importing coal to meet power requirements and to lift coal by road as failure to do so may lead to shortages in such states during the monsoon. Power Minister RK Singh has written to chief ministers of all states which have not started the process of coal […]

A scarcity of coal in the country was “created for somebody’s benefit,” Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain said Thursday. “A huge scarcity of coal was created in the country for somebody’s benefit… Coal was not taken from our mines. Then, the Delhi government and other governments made noise about the shortage of coal in power […]