The Coal India (CIL), which posted a turnover of Rs 88,281 crore during 2012-13 hopes to achieve 12-13 per cent growth in the current financial year stated Narsing Rao, Chairman of CIL. Read more...

The Captain of Ports (CoP) of the Goa government is exploring possibilities of initiating coal transportation in order to arrest the decline in its revenue. The revenue earning of CoP declined to Rs 12 crore in 2012 from Rs 40 crore in 2011. Read more...

Union coal ministry is of the view that the relinquished coal bed methane (CBM) blocks in the country need to be allotted to power producers as these assets hold substantial reserve of coal. Read more...

The finance ministry is not happy with the power ministry's proposal to reduce the import duty on all forms of coal used for power generation as it had already reduced import duty on selective varieties of coal in last budget. Read more...

Minister of State for Coal informed that the centre has not allocated any coal block to private companies in Madhya Pradesh during 2010, 2011 and 2012. He further added that the State government had recommended 14 companies for seven coal blocks located in MP during the last five years. Read more...

As Pakistan gears up to start exploiting what is claimed to be the world's third-largest coal deposit, buried in the Thar desert, it has approached Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, for assistance. Read more...

The Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) awarded Rs 4,051 crore contract to BHEL for supply and erection of the main plant. BHEL would supply and erect main plant for OPGC's 1,320 MW capacity expansion project. Read more...

State-owned coal miner, Coal India (CIL) plans to deliver all the extra coal it will produce this year, and for the coming few years, to power companies, seeking to counter criticism of its inability to meet domestic demand that has plunged parts of the country into a power crisis. Read more...

Adani Enterprises starts coal production at the Parsa East-Kante Basin mine in Chhattisgarh. This has marked its foray into the coalmine developer cum operator (MDO) business, the company said. Read more...

Coal India has stated that it will fulfill its target of supplying 377 mn t to the countryÆs power utilities in 2013-14. The company supplied 344 mt to power utilities in the previous fiscal, up from 312 mt in 2010-11. Overall coal supplies to power sector grew by 10.2 per cent. Read more...