Energy updates from across Asia
The latest coal mine news, analysis and data from India and across Asia, reported by Energy Asia.
In a major step towards improving ease of doing business and making the coal sector more business-friendly, the Government of India has notified the Colliery Control Rules, 2025.
In a significant development, the Ministry of Coal's auction process for the sale of coal mines has witnessed a robust participation from various companies.
Union Minister of Coal, Pralhad Joshi, urged the public sector undertakings to compete with the private sector in coal mine auction and early production.
Billionaire Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta expects to bring into operation two coal blocks in Odisha in this fiscal, and is working out a plan to fast-track the…
Chhattisgarh forest department launched a tree cutting exercise to pave the way for the start of the Parsa coal mining project in the Surguja division, triggering…
Two of the five people, who were trapped after the roof of an underground coal mine run by Singareni Collieries Company Ltd in Peddapalli district collapsed…
The government on Friday said it will begin next week the next round of auction process for 40 new blocks for the sale of coal.
Centre announced the launch of the second attempt of auction process for 11 coal mines for commercial mining.
Nalco is making efforts to operationalise Utal D coal mine in Odisha in the next financial year. Utkal E coal block in the state will be…
Coal Ministry has asked captive coal mine owners to increase their production for their end-use plants while warning that corrective steps to regulate fuel supply from…
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated a Merry-Go-Round (MGR), a dedicated rail transportation system between the production and consumption points, for carrying coal from a mine…
Several laborers trapped and allegedly a few killed following an explosion that happened inside a coal mine in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Sunday.
The Nominated Authority, Ministry of Coal, had launched the auction process of 38 coal mines in the first tranche of auction for Sale of Coal (commercial…
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Thursday joined the rescue efforts at the illegal coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district where five miners…
Six miners from Assam, allegedly involved in illegal rat-hole mining in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, were feared trapped inside a coal mine after it collapsed.
Rescuers were working Sunday to reach 21 workers trapped in a coal mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region after flooding cut power underground and disrupted communications
Adani Enterprises Ltd along with its wholly-owned subsidiary Gare Palma II Collieries Pvt Ltd (GPIICPL) has signed a pact with Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd…
After seven people were killed in a coal mine blast in Balochistan recently, several workers' unions in Pakistan took out a procession on Friday urging the…
The climate impact of methane emissions, including by India that is among the top five emitters, from proposed coal mines worldwide could rival the CO2 emissions…
At least five coal miners and two rescuers died due to suffocation after a methane gas fire broke out in the southwestern Pakistan province of Balochistan.
Only one bid has been received out of four coal mines that were put up for second attempt of auction under the 11th round of Coal…
Coal India (CIL) said coal grade slippage in the third quarter of the ongoing fiscal was down to 34% and clarified that provisional bills of customers…
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