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• India coal imports aren’t a big enough boost

  09 Oct 2014

  Supreme Court ruling scrapping the allocations of coal blocks to private operators will cut produc... . ...Read More

• Thermal coal prices under pressure from oversupply

  09 Oct 2014

  Thermal coal prices hovered just above five-year lows on Wednesday as a global supply glut and wea... . ...Read More

• Ministries explore option of mining coal along with CBM

  09 Oct 2014

  Move to ensure fuel supplies to power and other sectors Concerned over maintaining continued ... . ...Read More

• Sunflag receives Rs 28 crore demand notice in coal case

  09 Oct 2014

  Sunflag Iron & Steel Company today said it has received a notice for depositing Rs 28 crore as... . ...Read More

• Coal India divestment should begin after Diwali: Finance Ministry official

  09 Oct 2014

  The government is likely to begin its Rs 43,425-crore divestment programme with the sale of 10 per... . ...Read More

• Rio Tinto completes Mozambique coal asset sale to India ICVL

  09 Oct 2014

  Miner Rio Tinto said Wednesday it had completed the sale of its assets in Mozambique's Tete pr... . ...Read More

• Coal exports: Economic benefits don’t outweigh environmental impact

  09 Oct 2014

  Shoichi Itoh’s guest column in The Seattle Times was interesting, but only lightly touched, ... . ...Read More

• NTPC to unplug 1,200 MW on coal shortage

  09 Oct 2014

  Parts of northern India including Delhi will be compelled to buy expensive electricity from Thursd... . ...Read More

• The repeated claim that Obama ‘vowed’ to bankrupt coal plants

  09 Oct 2014

  Two new ads by GOP-leaning Crossroads GPS slam Kentucky Democratic Senate nominee Alison Lundergan... . ...Read More

• Indian enquiries marginally lift global prices

  08 Oct 2014

  October 8: Spot coal prices firmed up marginally in international markets on October 7 amidst a sl... . ...Read More

• SCCL exceeds production target in September

  08 Oct 2014

  October 8: Coal production from the 49 mines of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) in Sep... . ...Read More

• SCCL’s off-take level at 4.002 mt in September

  08 Oct 2014

  October 8: Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) achieved total coal off-take of 4.002 million t... . ...Read More

• Jaiprakash in market to procure 0.5 mt of imported coal

  08 Oct 2014

  October 8: The Jaiprakash Group is in the market to procure around 0.5 million tons (mt) of import... . ...Read More

• VISL floats RFQ to procure 20,000 tons of LAM coke

  08 Oct 2014

  October 8: Steel Authority of India Limited’s (SAIL’s) Visvesvaraya Iron & Steel P... . ...Read More

• NTPC floats another 5-mt imported coal tender

  08 Oct 2014

  October 8: NTPC Ltd has floated four separate tenders inviting offers from suppliers to procure a ... . ...Read More