Indrani Dutta

These mines fuel a capacity of 11,000 MW across five States

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 a few kilometres from the city

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.

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 fate of 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.

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 it and allocated to other players for captive use.