Counter affidavit on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in OA No 580 of 2022 Mukesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others. The report dated May 13, 2025 related to the Khadia Opencast Coal Mine Expansion Project located in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, and …
New fuel for Kolkata vehicles kolkata may soon become the first city in India to have vehicles running on methane if a deal between Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc), a private gas distribution company, and the West Bengal government goes through. ongc and Calcutta Compressions and Liquefaction Engineering, a …
The eighth draft coal policy that emphasises immediate government-led action in coal sector to meet the country's surging energy demand is likely to be placed before the caretaker government's cabinet today. The draft proposes to set up a "mine Bangla" in line with Petrobangla by 2010 to spearhead different mining …
People living in Phulbari of Dinajpur district have reiterated that they will resist any attempts at coal mining in northern localities by a method that, they say will affect their lives and livelihoods and threaten environment. Some of the residents are against coal mining by any methods in the area …
Yet power sector does not have prescribed coal stock: Junior coal minister New Delhi, August 12: Maintaining that public sector behemoth Coal India Limited (CIL) has been supplying coal adequately to state-run thermal power units and the power sector crying foul on coal shortage was uncalled for, the coal ministry …
Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf on Friday invited Poland to invest in the coal power generation and coal mining sector in Pakistan to benefit the country with the expertise of Polish technology. He said this while talking to Ambassador of Poland Dr Krzysztof Debnicki, who called …
CIL identifies 18 abandoned mines KOLKATA: Coal India Ltd (CIL) is floating global tenders for inviting joint venture proposals for reviving or salvaging 18 abandoned mines. These are likely to hold reserves of 800 million tonnes, CIL Chairman Partha S. Bhattacharyya said. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he …
Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Digwadih Campus (Erstwhile Central Fuel Research Institute) under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is a premier research organisation of international repute devoted to R&D; work - both fundamental and applied on Indian fuel resources, especially coal and lignite.
The newly formed national laboratory, the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR) Dhanbad, is a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) was aimed to provide R&D; inputs for the entire coal-energy chain from mining to Consumption through integration of the Core Competencies of the …
The Ministry of Coal has the overall responsibility of determining policies and strategies in respect of exploration and development of coal and lignite reserves, sanctioning of important projects of high value and for deciding all related issues. Under the administrative control of the Ministry, these key functions are exercised through …
Statesman News Service Kolkata, July 30 : The state health department was directed to take steps within a week to stop the cooking of the patients' food in five big coal ovens in the SSKM hospital, according to an interim order of the Division Bench of Mr Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya …
BURDWAN: Coal production at an underground mine of Eastern Coalfields Limited was halted after water gushed into it last night. Citu members staged a demonstration in front of the pit today, alleging a lack of safety and security measures inside the mines. Approximately 250 miners, mainly the underground loaders, were …
Coal is abundant and affordable in the Asia Pacific region, and for the foreseeable future could be used to meet the region's growing energy needs, but what becomes of those needs when air is too dirty to breathe; water is too polluted to drink; soil too contaminated to grow crops; …
Dillip Satapathy / Bhubaneswar July 31, 2008, 1:10 IST The Centre may bail out National Aluminium Company (Nalco), whose 1.6 million tonne alumina refinery in Orissa is on the verge of closure due to acute shortage of coal. The Union Coal Ministry is understood to have decided to ask Mahanadi …
with the first spell of monsoon in mid-June people in Bargarh, Nuapada, Kalahandi and Sambalpur districts in Orissa experienced something they had never seen before: a grayish layer on leaves, vehicles and elsewhere.
Greenpeace has found a new campaign method. Recently, the environmental action group posed as a pro-coal organization to co-sponsor the 2008 McCloskey Coal usa conference, where it delivered an anti-coal message. Disguising its identity under the moniker Institute for Energy Solution, Greenpeace paid the us $8,500 co-sponsorship fee that made …
Hyderabad,July 29: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Tuesday said more thermal power units will be set up in the state to tide over the power crisis. Dr Reddy sent a letter to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, requesting him to ask the coal ministry to consider …
Bs Reporter / Bhubaneswar July 30, 2008, 5:44 IST National Aluminium Co (Nalco), a leading producer of alumina/ aluminium in the country, is facing a major coal shortage. Currently, the company is running alumina refinery at half its capacity and may be forced to shut down the unit in a …
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata July 30, 2008, 0:09 IST Essar Steel may bid for US-based United Coal Company, joining seven other bidders, including rival JSW Steel, sources close to the development said. However, JSW Steel, India's third largest steel-maker, expects to finalise the deal by August. BLACK GOLD # …
