Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Dhanbad: The public investment bureau (PIB) has shown the green light to a Rs 6,997-crore Jharia rehabilitation package and it is just a matter of time before the Union Cabinet puts its stamp of approval. But the million dollar question is who will convince some 400,000 residents to evacuate the …
SHASHANK SHEKHAR Rescue team members and BCCL officials outside the Godhar mines near Dhanbad on Monday. Picture by Gautam Dey Dhanbad, Sept. 8: A fire broke out late last evening at Kusunda colliery, about 9km from Dhanbad, forcing 400 families to be evacuated from near the open-cast mine belonging to …
ARUN KUMAR THAKUR Union minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia (centre) at a news meet in Ranchi on Sunday. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Aug. 31: The Union minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia today remained non-committal on a deadline for wage revision of coal executives and employees.
Newswire18 / Kochi August 25, 2008, 3:59 IST The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) is planning to launch futures trading in thermal coal by September 10, the exchange's Chief Business Officer Unopam Kausik said on Saturday. Initially, the exchange plans to introduce a contract lot size of 100 tonnes …
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 …
On 6 December 2006, the Minister for Planning and the Minister for Mineral Resources and Primary Industries established an Independent Expert Panel to undertake an inquiry into the impacts of underground coal mining on natural features in the Southern Coalfield. The inquiry
Coal is the only natural resource and fossil fuel available in abundance in India. The major environmental challenges encountering the coal industry are impacts of mine fires, dust suppression and control particularly haul road dust consolidation, treatment of mine waters containing heavy metals/acid mine drainage, restoration of water table and …
Report would mainly address the issues of increasing the availability of coal in the short to medium term and bridge the gap between demand and supply. It was felt that the role of captive coal producers would be quite important and captive mining could take root and contribute significantly in …
a strategy is being chalked out to make the washing of mined coal mandatory in India. There is no gainsaying the fact that such cleansing can rid the mineral of impurities. At the same time coal washing itself is a highly polluting process. Its environmental implications can, therefore, prove to …
Also read: Damodar - Ten years ago Dhanbad town exists for one reason: coal. This much becomes quickly clear to me. A fine layer of coal dust covers everything in the hotel I have put up in, and the manager has assumed I have something to do with the coal …
a ban on the sale, marketing and distribution of bituminous coal in Dublin since 1990 has decreased particulate emissions in Ireland. According to a study published in Lancet, the Irish government's move to forbid the burning of bituminous coal has also reduced the mortality rate in the area. The research …
"Abandon all hope, all ye who enter" This inscription that marks the gates of hell in Dante's Inferno could well be true for Jharia town in Jharkhand. For, the underground fires that have been raging in the coalfields here for over several decades are now beginning to engulf its thickly …
norway's plan to increase coal mining from Arctic Svalbard has invited the ire of environmentalists. The greens say that coal is the most polluting source of power and can wreak havoc on the islands' fragile ecosystem. Recently, the Norwegian government presented a Bill for opening commercial operations at the Svea …
The carbon-injection process for removing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants has been successfully completed at the University of Illinois Abbott Power Plant, in the US. The technology demonstration trials tested a commercial activated carbon and a corn-derived activated carbon developed by researchers at the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) …
there is a relation between coal plant emissions and toxic levels of mercury in the air, shows new research conducted by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, usa. The study shows that the level of mercury in sediment at the bottom of New York's Central Park Lake is at least 10 …
The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh High Court to consider whether the government's decision allowing certain collieries to charge 10 per cent premium on coal price violated the right to equality of a consumer guaranteed under Article 14 of the Constitution. Allowing an appeal by Gujarat Ambuja Cements …
