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Eurostar is advising its customers on trains going through Paris' Gare du Nord station not to travel unless necessary. Industrial action by French customs officials — over a no-deal Brexit — is expected to continue until at least Wednesday, April 3. The high-speed train service has cancelled two trains on Thursday (March 28) and four on Friday (March 29). French customs officials have not been on strike. Instead, they have been going to work and applying all the rules to the letter of the law. This has been causing long queues at Paris Gare du Nord station and travellers have been facing delays of up to six hours in recent weeks. French customs officers want more staff and resources to deal with increased border controls in the event of a no-deal Brexit. "Due to industrial action by French customs, we are experiencing lengthy queues at Paris Gare du Nord station and expect this to continue until April 3rd," said Eurostar in a statement. "We strongly recommend that you do … [Read more...] about ‘Don’t travel unless necessary’: Eurostar warns passengers on trains to-and-from Paris’ Gare du Nord

HC upheld the Centre’s decision in not allotting two coal blocks in West Bengal and Jharkhand (Gare Palma IV and Tara in the two states, respectively) to Jindal Power Limited. With Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed of the Delhi High Court being transferred to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, verdicts of cases he has heard are being delivered.One of the important verdicts delivered on Thursday is of the Gare Palma coal block case.In a verdict, along with Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, Justice Badar upheld the Centre’s decision in not allotting two coal blocks in West Bengal and Jharkhand (Gare Palma IV and Tara in the two states, respectively) to Jindal Power Limited.However, it was not a complete win for the government either as the court did not agree with handing over the blocks to Coal India, a public sector undertaking.The Centre has now been given six weeks to decide what to do with the coal blocks.After the Supreme Court cancelled coal block allocations in 2014 in the wake of … [Read more...] about Delhi HC Upholds Centre’s Decision In Not Allotting Coal Block To Jindal Power [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has dismissed four writ petitions against the government orders to classify coal blocks into either power or non-power categories during the 2015 auction due to different reasons.The judgment delivered by bench comprising Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva agreed that clubbing separate and distinct end-uses of coal mines for an auction would result in unequals being treated equally and lead to arbitrariness and unfair bidding process, yet the petitioners were not entitled to any relief.The four petitioners are Monnet Ispat & Energy Limited, Utkal Coal Limited, Jayaswal Neco Industries and Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd.The essential issues raised in the petitions are the clubbing of specified end-uses of Coal mines under one category for auction and the splitting captive use from generation of power.The petitioners represented by P. Chidambram and Kapil Sibal argued the case against ASG Sanjay Jain, Akshay Makhija and Ashish Rana.There are … [Read more...] about Delhi HC Dismisses Pleas Against GOs To Club All Sectors For Coal Block Auctions [Read Judgment]

Justice RS Endlaw of the Delhi High Court dismissed two petitions filed by Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) seeking continuance in dumping fly ash at the Gare Palma mine in Chattisgarh so that its thermal power plant in Dongamahua remains operational. Court also imposed a cost of Rs.1 lakh on JSPL.JSPL was an allottee of the said mine, however after the apex court cancelled coal block allocations in September 2014, this meant that JSPL’s claim to the mine was no longer valid. The designated custodians of the said mine are Coal India Ltd(CIL) and South Eastern Coalfields Ltd(SECL). However, JSPL continued to dump fly ash on the 298.913 hectare of land at the mine. Fly ash was being generated form JSPL’s Dongamahua Captive Power Plant(DCPP).Court held that the continued dumping of the fly ash on the land which a part of the coal block was in clear violation of the rights of CIL and SECL. Endlaw J also observed that JSPL was benefitting from dumping the fly ash on the said … [Read more...] about Post Coal Block Allocations, Delhi HC Dismisses Jindal Steel’s Petition For Dumping Fly Ash In Chattisgarh Mine [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court (HC) found Coal India’s decision to cancel Jindal Power’s successful bid seeking supply of 49,000 million tonnes of non-coking coal through e-auction, to be inappropriate. On Monday, Jindal Power had filed an affidavit against Coal India’s decision and it is during the hearing of this matter that the division bench comprising Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva stated that, “this was not how the government should function”.On April 3rd, Coal India had invited bids for 4.05 lakh tonnes of non-coking coal and 1.5 lakh tonnes of coking coal. The e-auction was held on April 11th and Jindal Power made the highest bid with the price of Rs 1,008 per tonne of coal and had paid Rs 7.8 crore for the 49,000 million tonnes of coal won by it. On May 22nd, Jindal Power was informed by Coal India that the e-auction was being cancelled due to production issues and Rs 7.8 crore was refunded to Jindal Power.Coal India’s counsel … [Read more...] about Delhi High Court slams Coal India for cancelling the E-Auction of Coal won by Jindal Power