After 40 years, India set to re-open commercial coal mining to private firms

* India plans to double coal production by 2020* To help millions without power; develop eastern regions* Govt has identified mines to auction to private companies* With coal prices low, foreign......

How Modi plans to end India's power mess

Image: Trucks move in the Mahanadi coal fields, near Talcher town, in Orissa. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters India could allow commercial coal mining by foreign companies if they set up......

GAIL Chairman, HPCL head in race for CEO of the Year Award

State gas utility GAIL India Ltd Chairman Bhuwan Chandra Tripathi and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd head Nishi Vasudeva are among a dozen chief executives of global energy majors shortlisted......

CIL eyes 15% stake in Aussie firm for $100 mn

Coal India Ltd, the world's largest coal producer, may buy up to a 15 per cent stake in US-based Peabody Energy Corp's Australian assets early next fiscal for an estimated USD 100 million (about Rs......