Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs, Pralhad Joshi has said states will garner a total revenue of Rs 66.56 bn annually from the success of the nation’s first-ever commercial mining auction.

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Power & New and Renewable Energy has said that with India witnessing the most rapid renewable energy capacity addition globally, the country will remain the fastest-growing market for such investments.

Of the 38 mines offered for auction, the Ministry of Coal received a total of 76 eligible bids for 23. The technical bids comprising online and offline bid documents as part of the auction were opened at 10.00 am on Wednesday. This was done in the presence of bidders who were given the option of joining the meeting in either in-person or virtually.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has invited bids for the fifth bundle of national highway projects under toll-operate-transfer (TOT) in the State of Gujarat.

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan has called upon entrepreneurs to take advantage of the policy reforms brought in the energy sector.

The Ministry of Health’s telemedicine service, eSanjeevani, has successfully clocked 200,000 consultations within days of its launch.

The electricity market at the country’s leading platform for automated delivery of electricity, the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) witnessed a total trade of 5334 million units (MU) in July.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the acquisition of Krishnapatnam Port Co. Ltd (KPCL) by Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd.

In an important development that is likely to have long-term ramifications for the world’s fifth-largest economy and the South Asian region, India and the US have announced new areas of research on transformational power generation based on supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power cycles and advanced coal technologies, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).