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• Coal India contract workers await year-old Diwali gift

  03 Feb 2014

  Maharatna PSU Coal India Limited (CIL) recently doled out a huge special dividend of Rs19,000 cror... . ...Read More

• Coal India looks to cut next fiscal target

  03 Feb 2014

  Coal India may scale down its production target for 2014-15 by 23 million tonnes (mt) on account o... . ...Read More

• Sembcorp Industries to buy stake in India coal-fired power plant

  03 Feb 2014

  Sembcorp Industries Ltd, on Monday said it has signed an agreement to buy a 45% equity stake in a ... . ...Read More

• Experts concerned over US objection to coal-fired power plants

  03 Feb 2014

  Power sector and industry experts have expressed concern on the statement of US Ambassador Richard... . ...Read More

• Huntley Station faces dirty coal dilemma

  03 Feb 2014

  There’s no question the Huntley Station in the Town of Tonawanda is in a bad spot.   ... . ...Read More

• Coal port dredging, dumping threat to Great Barrier Reef

  03 Feb 2014

  Another fight over industrial and mining development in areas near Australia's Great Barrier R... . ...Read More

• Glencore resumes Australia coal shipments after cyclone

  03 Feb 2014

  Glencore Xstrata has begun loading coal at its Abbot Point terminal in northeastern Australia afte... . ...Read More

• CoAL plan to restart Vele mine on track

  03 Feb 2014

    COAL of Africa Ltd (CoAL) is confident it will have sufficient cash and debt resources to... . ...Read More

• Sluggish trend in global coal markets amidst Chinese absence

  31 Jan 2014

  January 31: A sluggish trend was seen in the international coal markets on January 30 amidst limit... . ...Read More

• Coal handling by Indian ports up 19.43% in Dec m-o-m

  31 Jan 2014

  January 31: Total coal handling by the major Indian ports during December 2013 rose by 19.43% comp... . ...Read More

• IMC on washery rejects allocations makes little progress

  31 Jan 2014

  January 31: The second meeting of the Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC) for formulating a policy o... . ...Read More

• SLC (LT) to meet once again in February

  31 Jan 2014

  January 31: The Standing Linkage Committee (Long Term) for power, sponge iron and cement sectors w... . ...Read More

• CMPDI floats two separate tenders for UCG projects

  31 Jan 2014

  January 31: The Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd (CMPDI), a subsidiary of Coal India... . ...Read More

• Coal handling at Magdalla Port falls 31.03% in Dec m-o-m

  31 Jan 2014

  January 31: Coal handling at Magdalla Port during December stood at 369,000 tons, down 31.03% from... . ...Read More

• Coal handling at Paradip Port up 1.39% in Dec m-o-m

  31 Jan 2014

  January 31: Coal handling at Paradip Port moved up 1.39% to 2,803,096 tons during the month of Dec... . ...Read More