A balance between environment and development has to be struck, the secretary of Bengal’s environment department said at The Bengal Club 11th Annual Panel Discussion in association with The Tele...

The government has directed state-owned CIL to be prepared to import 12 million tonnes (MT) of coal for power utilities for the next 13 months.  The state gencos and independent power producers h...

Domestic power producers have time till Friday to place orders for import of coal, failing which they will be allocated only 70 per cent of their requirement by the government, according to an officia...

Coal India on Wednesday said its average despatch to the thermal power plants at 1.69 million tonnes (mt) per day in May has been more than the average demand of 1.65 million tonnes per day from the g...

The Union power ministry has urged Coal India to import coal amid the unwillingness of power generating companies to source coal at high prices from the overseas markets. A Reuters report quoted a po...

A lower pre-monsoon coal stock at thermal power plants in India is suggestive of another power crisis in July-August, independent research organisation CREA has said. The current coal stock stands at...

The government-owned Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, will import the fuel for use by utilities, a Power Ministry letter seen by Reuters showed on Saturday, as shortages raise concerns ...

India is expected to face a wider coal shortage during the quarter ending September over expectations of higher power demand, an internal power ministry presentation seen by Reuters showed, worsening ...

India has asked power producers to bill electricity buyers every week to ensure adequate cash flow as costs surge due to higher imports of expensive coal, according to a federal power ministry letter ...

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...