The country’s domestic raw coking coal output may touch 140 million tonnes (mt) by 2030 from the present 51.7mt, the coal ministry said on Saturday.  Coking coal is an essential raw materia...

Better realisation from the sale of coal has pushed up the net profit of Coal India during the fourth quarter ended March 31. The public sector miner on Wednesday reported a jump of 46 per cent in it...

The tea industry in north Bengal is worried over the halt in the supply of coal from the Northeast after orders from chief minister Mamata Banerjee that trucks with “illegal” coal consignm...

Delhi based Nobel laureate social worker and Child right activist Kailash Satyarthi has taken note of the pitiable condition of children of colliery areas Dhanbad engaged in coal picking from the coal...

Coal India on Tuesday said it has adopted a raft of measures to step up coal supply to power plants, with a searing heatwave across northern India triggering a power crisis across many states.  ...

The Bengal government has set a target of early next year for itself to start mining at the Deocha-Pachami coal block by successfully completing negotiations with 4000-odd land loser families spread a...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday held a meeting with Power Minister R K Singh and Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi amid reports of the ongoing coal shortage in the country, officials said. During t...

“We might also stage series of agitation in Ranchi and Latehar against the acquisition of land for the project,” said Adivasi Sena president Ajay Kachyap. In the first phase, as many as s...

State-owned CIL’s coal production registered a marginal rise to 40.7 million tonnes in September. The development assumes significance in the wake of country’s power plants grappling with...

The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Bengal government has found alleged involvement of some senior government and police officials in irregular sand mining, said sources in the agency. “Although ...