'None can mine in eco-sensitive areas': SC tells Centre and Jharkhand on coal block auction

New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said prima facie the Central government is entitled to auction the coal blocks in the state while observing that neither the state nor the Centre will have the right to mine the areas that fall in the eco-sensitive zone.

PM Modi launches commercial coal mining auction, says 'freeing sector from decades of lockdown'

New Delhi/UNI: Launching the auction of commercial coal mining, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India has taken a 'major step today' to become self-reliant in energy and to make the coal sector free from 'decades of lockdown' and expressed confidence that it will turn the Covid-19 crisis into an opportunity, reducing its dependence on imports.