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• Firmness seen in South African coal prices

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: After remaining weak for more than a week, spot prices of standard South African stea... . ...Read More

• ‘Steam coal prices to stay dull over 12-18 months’

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: Although spot prices of steam coal have reached “rock-bottom” levels, tra... . ...Read More

• NTPC floats EoI for long-term tie-up on imported coal

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: NTPC Ltd, India’s largest thermal power generation company, has floated an expr... . ...Read More

• Oct pet coke despatches from Indian refineries largely flat

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: Despatches of pet coke (fuel grade) from the sidings of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)... . ...Read More

• RIL stops quarterly supply contracts for pet coke

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has stopped entering into quarterly contracts with ceme... . ...Read More

• Krishnapatnam may berth SAIL vessels in 3 months

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12:  Krishnapatnam Port expects to berth cape-size vessels of imported coal for Stee... . ...Read More

• Coal Secretary Anil Swarup to visit Kolkata

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: The newly-appointed Secretary (Coal), Anil Swarup, will be on a two-day tour to Kolka... . ...Read More

• SCCL to send team to Indonesia, Australia

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: After a visit to South Africa and Mozambique, Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL)... . ...Read More

• Railways’ Apr-Oct freight loading up 4.79% y-o-y

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: Indian Railways carried 621.66 million tons (mt) of revenue-earning freight traffic d... . ...Read More

• Tomar for time-bound action plan for resource mapping

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: Minister of Steel and Mines Narendra Singh Tomar feels the Geo-Science Advisory Counc... . ...Read More

• MoC seeks documents from allocatees by Nov 25

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: The Ministry of Coal (MoC), in pursuance of Section 8(1) of the Coal Mines (Special P... . ...Read More

• IMC to advise nominated authority on re-allocation

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: The Ministry of Coal has decided to set up an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) to ad... . ...Read More

• Coal Controller gets additional charge

  12 Nov 2014

  November 12: The government, exercising the powers vested in it through the Coal Mines (Special Pr... . ...Read More

• Coal scam: CBI to get coal ministry’s reply on sale of equity

  12 Nov 2014

  Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing alleged irregularities in coal block alloc... . ...Read More

• Coal auction to ensure gains reach power consumers

  12 Nov 2014

  An inter-ministerial panel on Tuesday discussed the contours of the methodology for setting reserv... . ...Read More