A single-judge bench of Justice Ananda Sen was hearing a plea by a former Bharat Coking Coal Limited employee, whose wife’s claim for psychiatric treatment was denied by BCCL.
Coal accounts for 75% of energy generated in India, with govt not decommissioning any existing capacity & in process of adding more. Renewable energy also too expensive at the moment.
The driest August in more than a century has resulted in power generation surging to a record 162.7 billion kilowatt hours (units), a Reuters analysis showed.
The world's largest coal mining company will end the fiscal year Friday with an output of 703.4 million tonnes, it said, 13% higher than the 622.6 million tonnes produced the last year.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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