State-owned rail coaches and mining equipment maker, Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML) said it signed a 12-year agreement with Coal India Ltd. (CIL) for joint production of off-road tyres.
In a statement, BEML said the tyres will be produced by Apollo Tyres and JK Tyres at a facility funded by itself and CIL.
CIL will invest 2 [...]

State-run Coal India Ltd. has inked a pact with Oil and Natural Gas Corp. to pursue the study of underground coal gasification.
Junior Minister for Coal Santosh Bagrodia said in a statement CIL entered into a memorandum of understanding with ONGC to jointly pursue a pilot-scale study for underground coal gasification.
He said ONGC, in turn, signed [...]

India says it is contemplating a new coal distribution policy that would be based on the requirements of regulated and non-regulated sectors to give a boost to small- and medium-sized industries.
The Coal Ministry said the new policy would be put in place within a month of its approval. The ministry set up an expert [...]

India says it has plans to auction 38 coal blocks with a reserve of 6086.67 million tons to the power, steel, iron and cement sectors in 2007.
“The coal reserves of 38 blocks to be allocated for captive mining through the screening committee route is estimated to be 6086.67 million tons,” India’s Junior Coal Minister Dasari [...]

There has been a U-turn in terms of coal availability for the power sector this year with Coal India Ltd (CIL) facing a problem of plenty. Stocks have piled up at the pit-heads as the thermal power plants are not lifting the coal earmarked for them.
Currently CIL’s pit-head stocks have touched a whopping 31 [...]

The State-run Coal India Ltd and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) have reported a 6.34 per cent increase in coal production for May.
The estimated production for the month stood at 31.07 million tonnes (mt) as against 29.10 mt during the same month previous fiscal, an official release said.
The coal production for the month was more [...]

Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, will invest Rs 4,000 crore to augument its production capacity to 70 million tonne over the next five years and plans foray into power generation. “NCL will open two new mines and take up expansion work in six other existing mines to increase its coal [...]