Parliament on Thursday passed a bill that will remove end-use restrictions for participating in coal mine auctions and open up the coal sector fully for commercial mining for all domestic and global c...

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The Cambridge Marketing College, UK, and iLEAD Institute, a Calcutta-based private B-school, have together launched a slew of short-term marketing courses focusing on emerging technologies.The courses...

The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was facing difficulties in the operation to rescue 15 miners trapped in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya since December 13 as there was no blueprin...

Laws fail only when people in power want them to. The tragedy of the miners trapped since December 13 in a suddenly flooded coal mine in the East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya is the terrible ou...

There seems to be no hope at the end of the tunnel for the 15 labourers trapped in a coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills a fortnight ago, as search operations have been suspended by the Megh...

A home-guard jawan who was allegedly caught on camera accepting a bribe from a coal smuggler one-and-half years ago was dismissed from service on Friday after a Twitter user uploaded the video and tag...

The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the promulgation of an ordinance to open up coal mining in the country to non-coal companies while removing restrictions on the end-use of the fuel in a bid to ...

Illegal mining and transportation of coal from Meghalaya are continuing through Kamrup district of lower Assam despite a ban on such activities by the Supreme Court till February 19.After 15 miners we...

A nameless man’s death inside a PSU mine where he was not authorised to be is par for the course here where some of India’s richest coal deposits and poorest citizens coexist. On Thursday, a day a...