Rescuers spot one body in Saunda colliery

A body wasfound floating in the floodedSaunda colliery in Hazaribagh and efforts were on to bring it overground, a top police official said.14 miners trapped in Saunda collieryFourteen miners were......

14 miners trapped in Saunda colliery

Fourteen miners were trapped inside Central Coalfields Ltd's Saunda colliery in Hazaribagh in Jharkhand on Wednesday after the mine's roof collapsed and water gushed in flooding the......

Another Bengal minister raided by CBI

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at the premises of West Bengal Law Minister Moloy Ghatak in connection with its probe into alleged coal pilferage from Eastern......

CBI grills Abhishek Banerjee's relatives in coal scam case

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday questioned relatives of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in connection with its investigation into the multi-crore coal pilferage......

Coal stocks at power plants lowest in 25 years: CEA

Fuel stockpiles at the thermal power stations hit a new low in 25 years at 7.2 million tonnes, as Coal India and its subsidiaries failed to meet their production targets, as per latest official......

Shale gas policy: Big companies stand to lose

The shale gas policy being prepared by the government would have a mechanism to give the first right of refusal to companies holding oil and gas blocks.However, a government official said it might......

After ONGC, Coal India set to frack in India

After Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, it could be the turn of Coal India Ltd, another public sector undertaking, to taste shale gas in Indian soil.The Kolkata-based coal miner has tied up with......

CIL subsidiaries should be spun off: PlanCom

In view of the growing supply deficit of coal, the Planning Commission has suggested spinning off Coal India's subsidiaries into separate entities so that each one of them can pursue its own......