Coal India Limited (CIL) targeted to secure 710 mn tons in 2020-21 fiscal year from its 350 operating collieries across the country, incidentally is assigned to ensure 1 bn tons of production by 2023-24 year.
The huge blast damaged buildings in a radius of several kilometres in Beirut, leaving more than 200,000 homeless or living in homes with no windows or doors.
President Michel Aoun has asked the government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is formed.
Ammonium nitrate explosions have caused other accidents, too, in the past, and it is for this reason that most countries have stringent regulations on storage of the chemical.
During his trip to Beirut on Thursday, Macron had announced that France would organize an international aid conference to raise funds for emergency relief.
The explosions hit a country already reeling from its worst economic crisis in decades which has left nearly half of the population in poverty, as well as from the coronavirus pandemic.
The blasts were so massive they shook the entire city and could be heard throughout the small country, and as far away as Nicosia on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, 240 kilometres (150 miles) away.
