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• Hungry U.S. Power Plant Turns to Russia for Coal Shipment

  16 Jul 2014

  When New Hampshire’s largest utility needed to rebuild coal supplies after the past frigid w... . ...Read More

• Mechel Rebound Fleeting to BCS as Coal Prices Fall

  16 Jul 2014

  OAO Mechel (MTL), the Russian mining company seeking to avert bankruptcy, surged in U.S. trading a... . ...Read More

• Extension of weak trend in international coal markets

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: The weak trend in international coal markets was extended on July 14 in the absence of bu... . ...Read More

• Adani bags Nabha Power order for 0.25 mt imported coal

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: Adani Enterprises Limited has bagged an order for the supply of 0.25 million tons of impo... . ...Read More

• India may add 90 GW of thermal capacity by 2017-18

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: A total of around 90.145 GW of thermal power generation capacity is likely to be added in... . ...Read More

• India’s proven coal reserves at 125.9 bn tons: GSI

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: India’s total proven coal reserves stand at 125.9 billion tons as of April 1, 2014,... . ...Read More

• India’s cement production falls 0.5% in May m-o-m

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: India’s cement production stood at 23.72 million tons (mt) during May 2014, margina... . ...Read More

• CIL March-May coal despatches to power units at over 80%

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: Coal despatches to power utilities by Coal India Limited (CIL) sources stood at 84%, 82% ... . ...Read More

• Coal handling at Mumbai Port treble in June m-o-m

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: Handling of coal at Mumbai Port stood at 515,000 tons during the month of June 2014, up a... . ...Read More

• India’s imported coal stocks at 8 ports edge down w-o-w

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: India's imported coal stocks at eight ports – seven major and one private &ndas... . ...Read More

• MoC sets up task force to review rationalisation of coal linkages

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: The Ministry of Coal (MoC), on June 13, 2014 constituted a new Inter-Ministerial Task For... . ...Read More

• CIL, govt adopt measures to increase coal production

  15 Jul 2014

  July 15: Coal India Limited (CIL), the largest coal miner in the world, has undertaken several mea... . ...Read More

• India may ask state-run miner to import coal

  15 Jul 2014

  India's government is considering asking state-run Coal India Ltd (NSE:COALINDIA) to import co... . ...Read More

• Coal India resumes work in mines shut by protesters

  15 Jul 2014

  Mahanadi Coalfields, a unit of Coal India Ltd, said on Monday it resumed operations at three of it... . ...Read More

• NTPC expansion drive gets leg-up from 34 coal-based projects

  15 Jul 2014

  As many as 34 companies have offered to sell their coal-based projects to NTPC, the country's ... . ...Read More