Adani Enterprises aims to start building its first Australian coal mine in July 2013 at an expected cost of around $4 billion, so it can produce 23 million tonnes a year in its first year, its Austral

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved formation of a nine-member ministerial panel to sort out differences over the draft Bill for setting up a regulatory authority for the coal sector.

"The Pri

There is no respite in sight for the power woes of the state with the Bellary thermal plant unit 2 which was scheduled to begin operations in May, failing to do this owing to a last minute back-out by

Global firm Crisil has emerged as the lowest financial bidder for the Coal Ministry's contract to prepare the methodology for determining reserve price for coal block auctions.

"Crisil emerged as th

A trade union associated with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday threatened to go on strike from July 10 against alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks to private firms and

Power plants in the country continue to grapple with coal shortage as 19 stations suffered acute scarcity, with only four days of fuel stock, last week.

As per the Central Electricity Authority (CEA)

ONGC's pilot underground coal gasification (UCG) project in Gujarat, which was initiated in 2005, is yet to get approval from the Union Coal Ministry, a top company official said here.

Following furore over an initial CAG report that estimated huge losses to the exchequer in the allotment of mines, the government has said it is ready with the list of coal blocks to be bid and the au

Ten years after announcing the project, Jindal Power and Steel is still waiting to start digging for coal to fuel its $3.1 billion steel and power complex in Orissa state.

The project is one of sever

With media reports of audit raking up a coal scam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has clarified there is no report and maintained there was no