Dewatering of flooded Singareni mine continues

Dewatering operations at the flooded mine of Singareni Collieries continued on Tuesday, thoughofficials sounded pessimistic on the chances of survival of the 17 miners trappedsince yesterday.......

T'gana tunnel tragedy: One body recovered from 10-ft of silt on Day 16

Rescue teams working to extricate the eight trapped men under the partially collapsed SLBC tunnel in Nagarkurnool, Telangana for over two weeks on Sunday retrieved the body of one of them......

17 Singareni coal miners trapped

Seventeen miners are feared dead after being trapped in a coal mine caved in at the government controlled Singareni Collieries in Godavarikhani in Andhra Pradesh on Monday. The incident came to......

'Autonomous hydraulic robot' to help in Telangana tunnel rescue

An 'autonomous hydraulic powered robot' equipped with special machinery, has been deployed to accelerate the search operation for seven persons trapped inside the partially collapsed Srisailam Left......

Low coal supply likely to hit cement companies

Lesser coal availability may affect the domestic cement industry. With coal requirement set to more than double in the next five years, lower coal supply is pinching cement firms. The cement......

Govt to allot coal mines to PSUs today

After two rounds of auctioning of coal blocks for private companies, the government will on Tuesday allot mines to central and state PSUs. "Allotment of coal blocks to state entities to take place......

Strike halts production at over 60% Coal India units

Coal industry employees across the country on Tuesday went on a five-day strike, halting production at over 60 per cent of state-run Coal India units that may hit fuel supply to power plants.......

Power crisis: Low generation and not coal shortage is the reason

The current power crisis is mainly on account of sharp decline in electricity generation from different fuel sources and not due to non-availability of domestic coal, a top official said on Sunday.......