Country’s largest power generation utility NTPC is looking to buy stakes in two Indonesian coal mines and also plans to invite global bids for more overseas assets, its chairman said on Monday. NTPC aims to lock-in fuel ...

Energy major Reliance Industries is looking for opportunities to enter in to coal-based power plants as demand for power in the country is increasing manifolds every year and huge gap between demand and supply. Reliance’s owner Mukesh ...

In order to bridge the shortfall in indigenous coal availability, power utilities have been advised to import 35 million tonnes of coal, said minister of state for power Bharatsinh Solanki ...

The initial public offer of Coal India which is likely to hit the markets by July-end will come up for cabinet approval in early May. ...

Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal speaks out on the several key issues plaguing the coal sector. Excerpts from an interview ...

Coal continues to be one of the major bottlenecks that the Indian power sector is facing – shoddy quality, bad infrastructure, a  widening demand-supply gap and  red tape. A look at what ails the sector ...

Despite environmental concerns, coal is the world’s fastest growing fuel, according the BP 2008 Statistical Review of World Energy. Coal is plentiful and cheap compared with fossil fuels such as oil and gas. ...