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  Coal India gives Rs 15 crore for green transport near Kolkata

  June 06, 2015 7:42 IST

  Kolkata: State-owned Coal India Limited (CIL) on Friday said it has extended financial assistance of Rs.15 crore to Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (HIDCO) to purchase three electric buses and an electric car."While CIL contributed the

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  Logistics strategy to be pushed for coal evacuation

  India | April 19, 2015 13:38 IST

  Kolkata: PSU behemoth Coal India, which is facing constraints in evacuation infrastructure, is planning to realign its logistics management of railway rakes to increase evacuation by additional 5-8 per cent.  “We are trying to push

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  Coal India misses output target by 3%

  April 03, 2015 18:38 IST

  Kolkata: Coal India has missed the production target for the financial year 2014-15 by 3 per cent, recording an output of 494.23 million tonnes.The company's output target was 507 mt for the fiscal, Coal India

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  Coal block auction: GMR, Reliance Cement bag blocks on first day

  February 15, 2015 9:34 IST

  New Delhi: Anil Ambani-led Reliance Cement and GMR Chattisgarh Energy Ltd won the two blocks on offer on the first day of coal auctions.Reliance Cement won the first coal block as it emerged as the

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  CIL mega share sale sails through; Govt to get Rs 22,600 cr

  January 30, 2015 21:59 IST

  New Delhi: In the biggest-ever disinvestment, the 10 per cent stake sale in Coal India was today over-subscribed fetching the goverment about Rs 22,600 crore largely helped by domestic financial institutions.Over-subscribed by 1.07 times, the

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  India's biggest ever share sale begins, govt to raise around Rs 22, 600 crore

  January 30, 2015 14:22 IST

  New Delhi: The sale of union  government's 10 per cent stake sale in bluechip Coal India has begun today.The central govt hopes  to raise an estimated Rs 22, 600 crore from this sale. The share

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  Budget 2015: Traders expect Sensex to hit 30K mark and Nifty at 9000

  January 29, 2015 10:26 IST

  Mumbai: Indian equity markets are on a high buoyed by better-than-expected quarterly earnings reported by companies and a cut in interest rates. The Sensex has gained over 2200 points in the past 10 trading sessions,

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  No privatization of Indian Railways, Coal India: Arun Jaitley to unions

  January 18, 2015 8:00 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday assured trade unions that the government did not intend privatizing either the Indian Railways or Coal India."Government has no intention to privatize either railways or Coal India.

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  Govt to sell stake in more than one PSU by March-end: FM

  January 12, 2015 17:25 IST

  New Delhi: With less than three months left in the current fiscal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the divestment programme would be pursued on priority and involve more than one PSU during this period.The

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  Confident about Coal India raising output: Piyush Goyal

  January 10, 2015 8:30 IST

  New Delhi: Following his talks with unions to end the Coal India workers' strike, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal is doubly confident of the state miner achieving its production target of a million tonnes

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  Strike hits coal mine operations in Odisha

  India | January 06, 2015 13:03 IST

  Bhubaneswar: The operations of state-owned Coal India Limited (CIL) in Odisha were hit Tuesday as its major workers' unions joined a five-day nationwide strike against the government's plans to allow private players in the sector,

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  Ramping up coal production a priority: new Coal India Limited chairman

  January 06, 2015 11:41 IST

  Kolkata:  Ramping up output and improving profitability will be the top-most priorities for state-run Coal India's new Chairman Sutirtha Bhattacharya, although he admits that the coal production target of 925 million tonnes by 2019-20 is

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  Five-day coal strike begins today

  January 06, 2015 14:23 IST

  Kolkata/New Delhi: Trade unions today began a five-day coal industry strike, terming it as the biggest industrial action for any sector since 1977.The unions have gone on strike to protest against 'disinvestment and restructuring of

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  Coal India transporting extra coal to power plants

  January 05, 2015 15:11 IST

  New Delhi: State-owned Coal India is transporting extra coal to the power plants to help them tide over the likely disruption of supplies following the proposed five-day strike by the unions beginning tomorrow."Coal India (CIL)

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  Coal India appeals to workers to reconsider strike

  India | January 04, 2015 23:38 IST

  Nagpur: The Coal India management has appealed to its workers' unions to reconsider their call for a five-day strike from Tuesday.According to a release issued by the Western Coalfield Ltd (WCL), a subsidiary company of

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  New Coal India CMD S Bhattacharaya to assume charge by Jan 5

  India | December 31, 2014 11:50 IST

  Kolkata:  Senior IAS officer Sutirtha Bhattacharya is set to take over as new full-time Chairman and Managing Director of world's largest miner Coal India (CIL) by January 5.“The new CMD will assume charge by January

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  Private sector needs to contribute 600 MT coal by 2020: Govt

  December 21, 2014 9:19 IST

  New Delhi: With domestic demand for coal likely to soar to 1.6 billion tonnes by 2020, government has said it is looking at the private sector to contribute 600 MT, while the rest will come

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  Coal India signs pact for 1,000 MW solar power projects

  December 08, 2014 16:14 IST

  New Delhi: State-owned Coal India has signed an agreement with Solar Energy Corporation of India for setting up of solar power plants of total 1000 MW capacity in different parts of the country.“Recently, CIL (Coal

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  Coal India has planned output of 1 billion tonnes by 2020: Goyal

  December 04, 2014 16:26 IST

  New Delhi: State-miner Coal India (CIL) has been given a gross output target of one billion tonnes of coal by 2019-20, which is around double the current production, coal and power minister Piyush Goyal said

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  Coal India employee unions defer strike

  India | November 24, 2014 9:03 IST

  Kolkata :  Coal India (CIL) employee unions  have deferred their one-day token strike slated for today after a meeting between Coal Ministry officials and trade unions on Saturday.Four trade unions affiliated to INTUC, HMS, CITU