Captive coal mining companies should be restricted from transferring surplus coal production outside their end-use sector, a high-level panel headed by Planning Commission member B K Chaturvedi has

The mine, closed for years, was reopened six months back, says a minerd

A coal miner was killed when a portion of the Bharat Coking Coal Limited’s underground coal mine collapsed in Nirsa, Dhanbad on Monday. Three mine workers remained trapped inside the mine at Basantimata colliery till late Monday evening.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to give a comprehensive report with a complete break-up of the coal blocks in a tabular format, including allotments made to different companies, inves

Eligibility criteria relaxed for Jindal Steel & Power, say officials

Though Coal Ministry is planning to take action against both private and public sector companies for not developing the coal blocks allocated to them over the past few years, it is learnt that some of these coal mines may have been allocated by ignoring the norms and criteria laid down for allocation of blocks by the ministry itself.

Two former officials questioned; T.K.A. Nair’s statement to be recorded

After procedural wrangles were ironed out, the CBI’s probe into Coalgate has now reached the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and its officials.
Investigators have recorded statements of two former PMO officials, questioning them as witnesses in the questionable allocation of coal blocks, sources in the CBI said on Tuesday.

A Parliamentary panel has recommended removal of the provision of 26 per cent profit sharing by coal and lignite miners with project-affected people and replacing it with a system based on royalty payments by the firms concerned.

The amendment was proposed by the Coal Ministry to the Standing Committee, headed by Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee.