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Truck carrying coal catches fire at Eastern Peripheral Expressway
News | June 07, 2018 11:40 ISTTruck carrying coal catches fire at Eastern Peripheral Expressway
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Power crisis looms large over Delhi-NCR as thermal plants face acute coal shortage
India | May 29, 2018 8:30 ISTThree days after raising the alarm over the alleged “coal shortage”, Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain has said that the situation has “worsened”.
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Coal scam case: Delhi court to pronounce quantum of punishment for convicts Madhu Koda, HC Gupta on Dec 16
India | December 14, 2017 17:10 ISTThe judge had yesterday, however, acquitted four persons -- VISUL's Director Vaibhav Tulsyan, two public servants Basant Kumar Bhattacharya and Bipin Bihari Singh, and Chartered Accountant Navin Kumar Tulsyan -- of all charges.
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Chicken poop could replace coal in electricity generation, says a study
Trending | November 21, 2017 10:33 IST''Converting poultry waste to solid fuel, a less resource-intensive, renewable energy source is an environmentally superior alternative.''
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Climate change: Nearly 20 nations join hands to phase out coal
World | November 16, 2017 20:33 ISTA climate expert said that this a first-of-its-kind attempt to phase out the traditional coal power on such a massive scale after the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.
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Climate change: UK, Canada launch alliance to phase out coal
World | November 16, 2017 16:36 ISTEven Germany and Poland, hosts of climate talks this year and next, are holding onto coal for the foreseeable future.
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When coal formation almost turned Earth into a giant ball of ice
Science | October 10, 2017 21:31 ISTWhile burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago, the formation of coal brought the planet close to global glaciation or a snowball like state
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Eight core sectors growth slips to 2.4 pc in July
August 31, 2017 20:07 ISTThese eight infrastructure sectors -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity -- had witnessed a 3.1 per cent growth in July last year.
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Coal tax at 5 pc in GST will bring down power tariffs: Piyush Goyal
May 20, 2017 17:19 ISTBesides, Goyal, who also holds the New and Renewable Energy and Mines portfolios, said the higher tax of 18 per cent levied on solar modules will not impact solar tariffs.
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Amid India’s renewable push, China shifts its investments from coal to solar
World | May 18, 2017 14:40 ISTIndia’s push for renewable energy post the Paris Agreement on climate change has caught the eye of China, with its government shifting its Indian investments from coal to solar energy in India.
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Govt relaxes norms for domestic coal utilisation by power plants
May 05, 2016 13:57 ISTNew Delhi: The government on Wednesday relaxed norms for utilisation of domestic coal that will help bring down the cost of power generation by 40 to 50 paise per unit and eventually lead to yearly
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50 million homes in India yet to access electricity: Piyush Goyal
March 26, 2016 18:34 ISTThere are 50 million rural homes without access to electricity, union Minister Piyush Goyal said here on Friday.
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Coal linkages may automatically get transferred to new super critical projects
February 18, 2016 17:26 ISTNew Delhi: Coal linkages granted to old power projects will now be automatically transferred to the new plants of super critical capacity as the government aims to provide round the clock electricity to all."In view
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Coal scam: All decisions taken by Manmohan Singh, says former UPA minister
Politics | June 30, 2015 14:54 ISTNew Delhi: Former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, an accused in Jharkhand's Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block allocation scam case, today said that decisions to allocate coal blocks were taken by then Prime
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India is now world's fastest-growing major polluter
India | June 29, 2015 14:27 ISTFor the first time ever, the year 2014 saw India's carbon dioxide emissions growth accounting for the largest share of global emissions growth, according to a new global report. India's CO2 emissions from energy use
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Coal block auctions to continue, says top government official
India | April 28, 2015 23:38 ISTMumbai: The government would continue coal block auctions to meet the demand as nearly 19,000 MW of thermal projects are stuck for want of fuel linkages, a senior government official said here today.“As much as
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PM Modi targets UPA govt over coal scam
World | April 12, 2015 7:46 ISTParis: Targeting the previous UPA government on the coal scam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said coal blocks, whose earlier allocation had raised questions even against the then PM, had now fetched over Rs 2
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Coal commercial mining to be allowed soon
India | March 16, 2015 14:47 ISTMines to be allotted to states for mining and sale of coalNew Delhi: The government will start allocating coal blocks to state governments for commercial mining by April. This is one first major step towards
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Corporate Espionage: 12 arrests made so far
India | February 21, 2015 19:06 ISTNew Delhi: According to police, these five company executives were receivers of stolen documents which have been recovered by police teams during raids from their establishments.Saxena is Manager, corporate affairs, Reliance Industries Limited(RIL); Chandra is
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Coal block auction: GMR, Reliance Cement bag blocks on first day
February 15, 2015 9:34 ISTNew 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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