Coal
- Telangana
KCR urges PM to stop auction of Singareni coal blocks
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop auctioning of four coal blocks of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) as proposed by the Union Coal…
- Business
Coal, petroleum products’ production fuel Oct industry growth
New Delhi: Healthy production of coal, and petroleum products as well as eased Covid restrictions lifted the growth of India’s eight major industries in October on a year-on-year and sequential basis. On…
- World
Countries pledge to phase out climate culprit coal
Glasgow: Several major coal-using nations have pledged for the first time to phase out their use of the heavily-polluting fossil fuel or to speed up existing plans to do so, while others announced…
- World
China’s energy crisis could impact the global economy
New Delhi: China’s energy crisis has created ripe conditions for the smuggling of coal from North Korea. North Korean trading companies are defying international nuclear sanctions to sell coal to energy hungry…
- Telangana
Telangana opposes move to transport Singareni coal to other states
Hyderabad: The Vice-Chairman of Telangana State Planning Board, B. Vinod Kumar, on Saturday demanded that coal from the Thadicherla mines of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) should not be transported to other states.…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP seeks support from MP govt to operationalise Suliyari coal block
New Delhi: Amid concerns regarding a power crisis in the country, Andhra Pradesh has sought support from the Madhya Pradesh government to operationalise the Suliyari coal block located in Singrauli district. Andhra…
- Business
Coal supplies to non-power sector plants may be kept suspended
New Delhi: Even as supplies of coal are being ramped up at power plants, supplies to non-power sector plants may be kept suspended. Southern Eastern Coalfields, a subsidiary of Coal India has…
- India
Is scarcity of coal artificially created, asks Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru: Karnataka Opposition leader Siddaramaiah on Monday commenting on shortage of coal for power plants in the state said, “we have to first understand if the scarcity of coal is artificially created or…
- Andhra Pradesh
‘No coal shortage’: Centre clarifies amidst power crisis in AP
Hyderabad: Two days after Andhra Pradesh (AP) chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding more coal amidst a impending power crisis, the Union Ministry of Coal on…
- Delhi
Kejriwal says Delhi may face power crisis, asks PM Modi to intervene
New Delhi: Delhi could face a power crisis due to coal shortage, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene so that coal and…
- Delhi
Coal shortage: Kejriwal writes to PM Modi seeking intervention
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday claiming that there is a coal shortage situation that has affected the power generation plants…
- Business
India’s FY22 electricity demand expected to rise by 6%
New Delhi: India’s electricity demand is expected to rise by around 6% per cent in FY22, said Fitch Ratings on Friday. The country’s electricity demand had fallen by 1.2 per cent in…
- India
‘Toxic’: Adani to set up $4 bn plant in Gujarat; to convert Australian coal to plastic
Adani Enterprises, the owner of Carmichael mine in Australia’s Queensland, is planning to turn the mine’s coal into toxic PVC plastic in India by setting up a plant worth USD 4 billion…
- Business
Coal shipped overseas ‘produced’ more emissions than India’s
New Delhi: Coal shipped overseas was responsible for a tenth of global annual energy-related CO2 emissions in 2020. Coal exported in 2020 had the potential to produce 3.1 billion tonnes of CO2…
- Business
Polluting coal to remain predominant fuel in India’s energy basket
New Delhi: Even as the country pushes for its expansion of the renewable energy projects, coal is set to remain as the predominant fuel in India’s energy mix in foreseeable future. As per…
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