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• CIL mulls major manpower revamp to improve efficiency, cut costs

  12 Aug 2014

  Coal India Ltd (CIL) is planning a major restructuring of its manpower across subsidiaries to impr... . ...Read More

• Coal mining: Govt needs to fix PPP flaws

  12 Aug 2014

  The Economic Survey, last month, said there was an urgent need to fast-track the entry of private ... . ...Read More

• Govt plans to divest 10% stake in CIL: Goyal

  12 Aug 2014

  The government August 11 said it is looking at selling 10 per cent stake in Coal India Ltd (CIL), ... . ...Read More

• MoEF says coal is mineral, green tribunal slaps notice

  12 Aug 2014

  National Green Tribunal (NGT) served notices on secretary, ministry of environment and forests, go... . ...Read More

• Adani stocks soar on report of Aussie coal terminal sale

  12 Aug 2014

  Shares of Adani Enterprise soared close to 5 percent in early Monday morning trade on reports of t... . ...Read More

• How to make coal suppliers more accountable

  12 Aug 2014

  The country has 39 mt of coal in stock at various places. On the other hand, power producers are r... . ...Read More

• Beijing cuts coal use by 7 pct in H1 in anti-smog push

  12 Aug 2014

  China's capital Beijing cut total coal consumption by 7 percent in the first half of 2014 as p... . ...Read More

• Modi may lose $3-bn plant to Iran as coal runs short

  12 Aug 2014

  Domestic coal shortages are prompting India’s National Aluminium Co (NALCO) to plan construc... . ...Read More

• July US coal exports from Virginia fall record 21% in 3 years

  12 Aug 2014

  July coal exports from Virginia's Hampton Roads region totaled more than 2.9 million st, down ... . ...Read More

• Russia ships coal to America despite sanctions

  12 Aug 2014

  The Doric Victory, a huge transport ship the length of two football fields, just sailed 4,000 mile... . ...Read More

• Mechel installs new coal washing tech at Elga

  12 Aug 2014

  Russian miner Mechel announced that it has installed new coal washing and dewatering technology at... . ...Read More

• Thailand rules out nuke power, plans to meet energy needs via coal

  12 Aug 2014

  Ruling out construction of nuclear power plants, Thailand's military junta has said it will lo... . ...Read More

• Little change in international coal markets

  11 Aug 2014

  August 11: Spot coal prices remained largely unchanged on August 8 in the absence of fresh trigger... . ...Read More

• India’s coal imports from S Africa up 14.47% in July m-o-m

  11 Aug 2014

  August 11: Indian companies imported a total of 2,861,772 tons of coal from South Africa’s R... . ...Read More

• S Africa’s coal exports up 10.25% in July m-o-m

  11 Aug 2014

  August 11: Total coal exports through South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) rose ... . ...Read More