A special CBI court in West Burdwan’s Asansol on Thursday remanded seven ECL officials, including one general manager and three former general managers who were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the coal smuggling case, to five days’ custody of the central investigating agency. The CBI brought them to Asansol on Thursday morning from the […]
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CID arrests four from West Burdwan over coal smuggling
The CID arrested four alleged coal smugglers from West Burdwan in two back-to-back raids since Sunday. Sources said the crackdown, following strict instructions from Nabanna, will continue. The four alleged coal smugglers — Bijay Singh and Abhishek Sinha, both residents of Andal, Yudhisthir Ghosh from Pandaveswar and Asansol resident Om Prakash Agarwal — were arrested […]
CBI arrests 7 ECL officials in coal scam
The CBI late on Wednesday arrested seven ECL officials, including one general manager and three former general managers, in connection with a multi-crore coal scam. The CBI started interrogating the present and former ECL officials at Nizam Palace in Calcutta on Wednesday morning. Sources said during interrogation, the CBI found irregularities and contradictions in the […]
Coal India’s capital expenditure jumps 65 per cent
Coal India on Monday said its capital expenditure has jumped 65 per cent to Rs 3,034 crore during the April-June quarter of 2022-23 compared with Rs 1,841 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous year as the public sector mines stepped up coal production to meet growing demand. Land acquisition costs have accounted for […]
UltraTech buys Russian coal
India’s biggest cement producer, UltraTech Cement, is importing a cargo of Russian coal and paying with Chinese yuan, according to an Indian customs document reviewed by Reuters, a rare payment method that traders say could become more common. UltraTech is bringing in 157,000 tonnes of coal from Russian producer SUEK that loaded on the bulk […]
Khagra-Joydeb coal mine: Accelerate the project, write landlosers to Mamata
Over 1,000 landlosers belonging to 11 villages under the proposed Khagra-Joydeb coal mine in Birbhum’s Loba on Friday wrote to chief minister Mamata Banerjee seeking her intervention to accelerate the project, which did not witness any development in the past two years. The mass petition, under the banner of the Loba Kirshijami Raksha Committee, was […]
2,100 agree to sell land for coal mine
A total of 2,141 out of around 4,500 persons, whose land is required for the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum district, have so far agreed to part with their plots formally, said a senior state government officer. The development, multiple sources in the administration said, is significant as the consent of more than […]
More tenders for coal import
Coal India has followed up its short-term tender to import 2.4 million tonnes of coal with two more medium-term tenders of 3 million tonnes each on Friday to urgently shore up coal stocks at power plants. Unlike the short-term tender, these are not indent-based, but to keep coal on tap for immediate availability and use […]
Stringent checklist for coal entry into West Bengal
The state administration has drawn up a 14-point checklist to allow coal-laden trucks from other states to enter West Bengal in a bid to crack down on illegal mineral transport across the state. Sources said that chief minister Mamata Banerjee has instructed the authorities to ensure that West Bengal was not used as a corridor […]
Bengal administration launches stringent checklist to curb coal smuggling
The state administration has drawn up a 14-point checklist to allow coal-laden trucks from other states to enter Bengal in a bid to crack down on illegal mineral transport across the state. Sources said that chief minister Mamata Banerjee instructed the authorities to ensure that Bengal was not used as a corridor to transport smuggled […]
CIL told to import 12 metric tonne coal
The government has directed state-owned CIL to be prepared to import 12 million tonnes (MT) of coal for power utilities for the next 13 months. The state gencos and independent power producers have sought time till Saturday afternoon to figure out the quantity of coal they require and the import orders would be placed by […]
CIL supply beats demand
Coal India on Wednesday said its average despatch to the thermal power plants at 1.69 million tonnes (mt) per day in May has been more than the average demand of 1.65 million tonnes per day from the generating companies. Total coal supply to the power plants was 52.4 mt in May with a year-on-year growth […]