West Bengal coal scam: CBI summons alleged mastermind Anup Majhi for questioning on March 30A division bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud on Thursday had ordered “the petitioner shall not be arrested until April 6. This order ...
26 Mar, 2021, 08.05 PM IST
Commercial mining likely to save Rs 30,000 cr annually on thermal coal import bill: Pralhad JoshiThe opening of the coal sector to private companies is expected to generate employment for more than three lakh people. Since these coal mi...
18 Jun, 2020, 04.09 PM IST
Hard taskmaster Piyush Goyal on new track as Railway MinisterGoyal did the difficult job of implementing Udaan scheme in the Power sector but keeping the Rails in track could be a differtent cup of te...
04 Sep, 2017, 12.13 AM IST
Court order in Talabira case has nothing to do with us: Naveen PatnaikPatnaik had in August, 2005 had written a letter to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recommending Hindalco for the allocation of Tala...
12 Mar, 2015, 06.05 PM IST
Denationalize coal, produce gas along with itDenationalize coal. Auction all future coal blocks. Allow all winners to produce associated gas (methane) as well as coal.
28 Sep, 2014, 01.32 PM IST
Mining reforms can not only exorcise Coalgate ghosts but also set a rousing exampleThe government needs to set standards for mining and push coal mining companies including Coal India, which has a poor record in these matt...
23 Sep, 2014, 05.33 AM IST
Radical reform needed in the coal sectorNow that the Supreme Court has deemed captive coal block allocations since 1993 'illegal', the govt needs to purposefully fast-forward the ...
09 Sep, 2014, 06.07 AM IST
Supreme Court's 'Coalgate' verdict needs to be welcomedThe coal allocations scandal is not an outrage merely because undeserving companies got coal blocks. It is an outrage because it concentrat...
26 Aug, 2014, 05.07 AM IST
A reform roadmap for coal regulatorIn the thoroughly unreformed coal sector—the government has set up a wholly redundant post of price regulator, who would not really decide ...
31 Mar, 2014, 05.36 AM IST
No mass cancelling of coal blocks, pleaseIt is scandalous that India, with large proven reserves, faces a 25% deficit in domestic coal supply.
16 Jan, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
CIL union hails SC observations on coal mine allocationCoal India's trade union AICWF today hailed the observations made by the Supreme Court on coal mine allocations and demanded that they be c...
10 Jan, 2014, 07.35 PM IST
Government to suspend work in 13 coal blocks of scam-hit companiesThe move is likely to hurt the development plans of power and sponge-iron projects attached to these coal blocks, which are estimated to ho...
02 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- Bans are devoid of logic and hurt the economy
It is scandalous that the infamous Reddy brothers in Bellary, Karnataka, were able to mine illegally with impunity and brazenly received po...
07 Feb, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Nitin Gadkari files defamation case against Digvijaya SinghBJP chief Nitin Gadkari has filed a defamation case in a Delhi court against Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for linking his name to a coal...
02 Oct, 2012, 06.30 AM IST
- Nitin Gadkari sends legal notice to Digvijay Singh
Nitin Gadkari today sent a legal notice to Digvijay Singh for allegedly making scandalous and defamatory statement against him.
14 Sep, 2012, 05.32 PM IST
- Congress accuses Naveen Patnaik of adopting double standard in coal scam
Accusing Naveen Patnaik of adopting double standard over coal scandal, Cong claimed that the state govt had strongly recommended allotment ...
26 Aug, 2012, 08.21 PM IST
- Coal allocation was pro-people: Sriprakash Jaiswal
Coal minister defends PM, and says auction would have sharply raised prices of coal, steel and cement.
20 Jun, 2012, 02.34 AM IST