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 …
DURGAPUR, July 24: Following the murder of their two party men in Laudoha on Tuesday, the CPI-M is now mounting pressure on the district police on stop illegal coal mining in this belt. The party is seeking to put an end to the illegal coal smuggling, which has remained a …
Rio Tinto says it plans to double Australian thermal coal output by 2015 as it ramps up production at its Hunter Valley operations and removes infrastructure constraints. The mining giant, which is fending off a takeover proposal by BHP Billiton, also plans to aggressively increase production at its Rossing uranium …
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai July 24, 2008, 0:46 IST In partnership with different US firms, two companies belonging to Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) have submitted competing bids for a single project floated by the Ministry of Coal. The two ADAG companies
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai July 23, 2008, 0:01 IST The dragon country has cut output by 72 per cent to control pollution before the Games. With China cutting output to avoid emission of hazardous gases before the Olympics scheduled for next month, prices of metallurgical coke (met coke), an …
KOLKATA: Gujarat NRE Coke, which has coke units in India and coking coal mines in Australia, on Friday announced its plans to set up a greenfield one-million tonne coke plant in Andhra Pradesh at an investment of Rs. 450 crore. Company Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Arun Kumar Jagatramka said that …
Gujarat NRE Coke is planning to invest around $450 million (Rs 1,935 crore) to raise the total coking coal production from its Australian mines to 7 million tonnes by 2012-13. The company has two mines in Australia and the production from the second coal mine in that country commenced recently. …
The Aditya Birla Group is keen on acquiring coal mines to feed its cement business and is scouting for the mines in South Africa and Indonesia. "We are looking for mines.... We have just started thinking on that," UltraTech Cement President and CFO K C Birla told reporters after the …
Bloomberg / Mumbai July 18, 2008, 0:05 IST National Aluminium, which had cut production last month because of coal shortage, plans to import 100,000 metric tonnes of fuel to prevent another disruption at a time when prices of the lightweight metal are record-high. The company, India's biggest alumina maker, will …
MCD chief warns junior officials of strict disciplinary action if they fail The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has ordered disciplinary action against negligent junior officials, who fail to act on complaints of potholes on roads within 24 hours of getting them. The move comes in the wake of potholes …
Surcharge for promoting solar energy will be viewed as an increase in power tariff, says TNEB member DEBATE ON TARIFF: (From left) Mohan Verghese Chunkath, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency; R. Rajupandi, Member, Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission; S. Kabilan, Chairman of the Commission; B. Jeyaraman, …
THE government and the steel industry locked horns on Wednesday, blaming each other for the soaring steel prices. While Tata Steel managing director B Muthuraman blamed the government for not playing a constructive and positive role to contain prices, steel secretary RS Pandey said the government has taken all possible …
DIVERSIFICATION PLAN Law Kumar Mishra | TNN Dhanbad: The public sector company Coal India Ltd has decided to enter into power production and has signed three MoUs with different electricty boards in Uttar Pradesh, Chatisgarh and Tamil Nadu for setting up 1000 megawatt capacity plants in the three states. However, …
The Energy Division will send the draft coal policy to the Cabinet Division by tomorrow for its placement before the council of advisers for approval, after a delay by about two years and a half over various controversies, officials said.
The draft coal policy with options for open pit and underground mining is being sent this week to the cabinet division for the government approval. "We've completed all necessary procedures. Now the draft will be sent to the cabinet division anytime this week for approval, Chief Adviser's Special Assistant for …
It is difficult not to miss the irony. At a time when the upa government appears to be straining its nerve to push the India-US nuclear co-operation agreement, on the ground that it would help in augmenting the country's energy requirements, there appears to be a total lack of inter-ministerial …
Pakistan could have avoided the adverse effects of the high cost of petroleum products including petrol, diesel and furnace oil, if it had avoided over reliance on petroleum based products for generating thermal power and had instead given encouragement to use indigenously produced coal in power generation, reports UPP correspondent. …
Karimnagar July 10: The main Opposition parties have drawn up ambitious plans to highlight the grievances of the Singareni workers and espouse their cause with a view to consolidate their strength in the entire coal belt ahead of the next general elections. While the CPI-affiliated All Indian Trade Union Congress …
NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Coal is learnt to have approved the allocation of 23 coking and non-coking coal blocks to leading steel, cement and power producers, including Essar, Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL), Grasim, Monnet and Ispat. While four coking coal blocks have been allocated in Madhya …
