Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Dhanbad, March 1: Union minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia today said that the Jharia coalfield was sitting on an atom bomb. He was referring to the inferno raging underneath. The minister, who was in the district to inaugurate the statue of former Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi at …
Indrani Dutta These mines fuel a capacity of 11,000 MW across five States KOLKATA: Power crisis is looming over large parts of the country, especially in the western region from March 1, if Coal India Ltd. (CIL) shuts down two of its biggest mines, which fuel a capacity of 11,000 …
International Coal Ventures Limited (ICVL), a special purpose vehicle (SPV) floated by five public sector undertakings, including Coal India Limited (CIL), has identified some coal assets in Australia, Mozambique, the US and Indonesia for acquisition, a top CIL official told Business Standard. The identified coal properties in these countries have …
Eight-year-old Muskaan is kneeling close to a patch of fresh, hot coal. She is sorting charcoal pieces that she will pile into a bamboo basket for her father to carry across the town of Raniganj. Everyday, groups of other men, women and children join her at this coal-burning ghat, only …
CENTRAL Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDIL) plans to join hands with Mineral Exploration Corp (MECL) to fast-track the process of coal exploration in the country. The tie-up will help CMPDIL to involve MECL in undertaking its drilling works without inviting tenders. CMPDIL, the exploration subsidiary of the country
KOLKATA: The board of Coal India Ltd (CIL), which met here on Thursday, has approved a first-ever proposal to import coal. Initially, about four million tonnes of coal is proposed to be imported. CIL is billed as the world
Indrani Dutta, Kolkata: ArcelorMittal has finally submitted its expression of interest (EoI) for reviving abandoned mines of Coal India Ltd (CIL) for which the Navratna PSU had invited global EoIs for
The inauguration of the clearing house for Coal Bed Methane (CBM) this November at Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI) here would be a high-voltage affair. For, officials from the energy department of the US and the country
Indrani Dutta KOLKATA: The October 13 deadline for filing expressions of interest (EoI) for salvaging, reopening and rehabilitating the abandoned mines of Coal India Ltd. (CIL) is set to be extended by around a month. A global tender was floated for this purpose in August. This follows a rethink that …
In India, the lives and livelihoods of a large number of people are affected by forced displacement due to development projects such as mining, dams, industries, power plants, etc. Not only such displacements put the affected people at grave impoverishment but also sets back the entire poverty reduction efforts of …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta No Thanks Says it cannot give away its blocks even as it is considering massive imports New Delhi, September 8: State-owned Coal India Ltd has put its foot down and told the government that its operational viability would be at stake if more blocks were snatched away from …
Nirmalya Mukherjee / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar September 08, 2008, 5:40 IST Coal India Limited (CIL) has challenged contentions of the Railways and power companies on the loading and supply of coal to the country's different power units, 43 of which are currently identified as 'critical' and 25 as 'super critical' because …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 06, 2008, 4:40 IST Coal India, the country's largest coal producer, is set to import about four million tonnes of coal in the current financial year ending March 2009, even as coal ministry claims that the country has sufficient coal to meet its need.
Press Trust Of India / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 0:01 IST Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SSCL) fell short of their production targets in July this year, according to official figures released today. "During the month of July 2008, the actual coal produced by CIL …
Hyderabad, Aug. 20: Coal India's decision to allot 10 per cent of its production for e-auction has hit the availability of coal for the thermal stations. Almost all thermal stations in the state are passing through severe shortage and some of them even closed down for few days as there …
