The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said the Union Territory of Puducherry and the Pondicherry Industrial Promotion Development and Investment Corporation Limited (PIPDIC) had lost a

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.

सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने कोल ब्लॉक आवंटन स्कैम में सीबीआई को सख्त निर्देश देते हुए कहा कि वह सरकार से कोई भी जानकारी साझा न करे। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने दो टूक कहा कि आप सरकार से किसी भी सूरत में जांच रिपोर्ट सा

Slamming the Centre for not cooperating with the CBI in its probe in the coal block scam, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked it to file a “comprehensive” response to justify all 164 allocations.

Coal India (CIL) is planning to move court against the Madhya Pradesh government decision defining coal as a biological resource and warning of imposing a benefit-sharing levy on state-run coal com

Panel recommends only one new block for OTPCL

The inter-ministerial committee (IMC) on coal has meted out a raw deal to Odisha, recommending only one out of four new coal blocks in the state in favour of its PSU, Odisha Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (OTPCL).

Thermal plant at Mukerian set to become a reality

The proposed 1320 MW Mukerian thermal plant to be taken up for commissioning by Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) is set to become a reality with the Union Coal ministry allocating a 229 million tonne coal block in West Bengal to Punjab.

The committee may monitor development of coal block as well as production and utilisation of the coal in concerned end-use plant

With development of coal blocks stuck largely due to procedural delays at the state level, the ministry of coal (MoC) has urged the coal bearing states to put in place a system for periodic monitoring of the allocated blocks to speed up their development.

Allocation would lead to an investment of Rs 1.6 lakh crore in the power sector

More than a year after gross irregularities in coal allocation surfaced, raising a storm of controversy, the coal ministry on Wednesday allocated 14 coal blocks with reserves exceeding 8,311 million tonne (mt) to power sector companies under the new Competitive Bidding of Coal Mines Rules notified in 2012.

Earlier CCEA nod on imported coal price to help hasten decision on these and 6 others

The recent Cabinet decision on coal cost pass-through should enable quick clearance of at least half the 18 power projects to be considered on Wednesday by a sub-group of the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI).

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