Coal Block Allocation

'Firms which lost mines should have refusal right in auction'

The economy will be severely impacted if the government fails to re-allocate the cancelled blocks within six months, Parakh said.

Sep 24, 2014, 18:06 PM IST

SC to decide fate of 218 coal blocks on Wednesday

The apex court will pronounce its verdict at 2 PM on blocks whose allocation was declared illegal by it and in which government claimed that Rs 2 lakh crore investments have been made.

Sep 23, 2014, 21:31 PM IST

Coal scam: SC to decide on cancellation of blocks today

The Supreme Court will decide today whether to cancel the coal blocks that were allocated by the screening committee between 1993 and 2010, a move which it had termed as unfair and illegal.

Aug 31, 2014, 18:43 PM IST

Jaitley hopeful of fast decision on coal mines post-judgement

Ahead of the hearing on coal blocks allocations issue on Monday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday exuded hope that a decision on the fate of the 218 coal blocks is taken expeditiously post-judgement.

Aug 31, 2014, 10:39 AM IST

SC to pronounce verdict on coal block allocation on Monday

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Monday its judgement on a batch of petitions seeking quashing of coal blocks allocation during the previous UPA regime.

Aug 23, 2014, 20:13 PM IST

Govt cancels auction of 3 coal blocks: Goyal

Of three blocks two are in Jharkhand and one is in West Bengal.

Aug 07, 2014, 15:24 PM IST

Coal block allocation: CBI registers three new cases

The CBI on Tuesday registered three new cases in its ongoing probe into the coal block allocation, naming a Chhattisgarh-based company and others.

Aug 06, 2014, 00:45 AM IST

CoalMin to review status of formation of JV, SPV next week

The Coal Ministry had earlier asked states to advise the companies that have been allocated mines to either form SPVs or JVs for projects.

Jul 29, 2014, 12:31 PM IST

Govt contemplating auctioning 25 deallocated coal blocks

The Coal Ministry is considering auctioning 25 captive coal blocks which where taken back from the companies due to their failure in developing them.

Jul 01, 2014, 14:26 PM IST