Category: Coal

The two notifications issued by the Kangra district administration in 2019 revising the circle rates of land are likely to result in large scale litigation, as in some cases the Collector has increased the rates five times. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has already lodged a protest with the state government over the […]

With the resumption of rail services, a train carrying coal has reached Talwandi Sabo Power Limited in Mansa. The arrival of the train has been confirmed by the management of the thermal plant. These trains have been started under the green signal given by the Northern Railway Department after inspecting the railway lines. Faced with […]

Indian energy giant Adani Group, which has been at the centre of controversy over its Carmichael mine in central Queensland, on Thursday changed the name of its Australian mining division to Bravus Mining and Resources.

Companies like Vedanta, Jindal Steel and Power, Adani Enterprises, Hindalco Industries and JSW Steel are in the race for the first-ever auction of 19 coal blocks for commercial mining, which will begin from Monday.

Former union minister Dilip Ray was on Monday awarded three-year jail term by a Delhi court in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.

The arrival of coal rakes has lead to the restoration of thermal units. The coal rakes arrived after 27 days which has restored the thermal units of Talwandi Sabo, Rajpura thermal, and Goindwal Sahib thermal plants.

Former union minister Dilip Ray was on Tuesday convicted by a special court here in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999. Special Judge Bharat Parashar convicted Ray, former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, of criminal conspiracy and other offences.

State-run steel maker SAIL is exploring new markets for the sourcing of coking coal with a view to reducing dependence on select countries for the raw material, its chairman Anil Kumar Chaudhary said. According to official data, the country imports about 56 million tonne (MT) of coking coal worth around Rs 72,000 crore. Out of […]

The Coal Ministry on Thursday said it has revised the list of mines to be auctioned for commercial mining and now 38 blocks would go under the hammer instead of 41 mines announced earlier. The revision in the list includes addition of three blocks Dolesara, Jarekela and Jharpalam-Tangarghat (in Chhattisgarh) and withdrawal of five blocks […]

India’s coal import fell 43.2 per cent to 11.13 million tonnes (MT) in July this year on account of high stockpile of the dry fuel at pitheads, plants and ports. The country had imported 19.61 MT of coal in July 2019, according to a provisional compilation, by mjunction services limited, based on monitoring of vessels’ […]