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• Power generation costs up on revision in coal transport charges

  09 Dec 2013

  December 9: The cost of power generation has gone up by one paise per unit because of a revision i... . ...Read More

• Efforts on to develop NW 4-5: Shipping minister

  09 Dec 2013

  December 9: Undeterred by the adverse report of a consultant, the Ministry of Shipping (MoS) is ma... . ...Read More

• Coal prices soften in the first week of December

  09 Dec 2013

  December 9: Spot coal prices showed mixed trends in the week ended December 6 as rates were up in ... . ...Read More

• Biswal is new DT (Finance) of NTPC

  09 Dec 2013

  December 9: Kulamani Biswal has taken over as Director (Finance) on the board of NTPC Ltd with eff... . ...Read More

• Steam coal imports via Gangavaram fall 54.86% m-o-m in Nov

  09 Dec 2013

  December 9: Steam coal imports via Gangavaram port fell 54.86% to 143,464 tons in November 2013 fr... . ...Read More

• Coking coal imports via Gangavaram at 417,414 tons in Nov

  09 Dec 2013

  December 9: Coking coal imports through the port of Gangavaram stood at 417,414 tons during the mo... . ...Read More

• Coal India looking at mine acquisitions in Indonesia: report

  09 Dec 2013

  Pursuing its overseas expansion strategy, Coal India Ltd (CIL) is actively looking at as many as f... . ...Read More

• Protest at Hazaribag coal dumpyard intensifies

  09 Dec 2013

  More than 10,000 villagers of Bahera in Hazaribag launched an indefinite agitation in support of t... . ...Read More

• Five coal miners killed in Meghalaya mine mishap

  09 Dec 2013

  Five miners were crushed to death when the cables of a crane being used to lower them into a coal ... . ...Read More

• Powder River Basin: Coal on the move

  09 Dec 2013

  No other coal deposit on the planet is so big, so close to the surface, and so cheap to mine as th... . ...Read More

• UK: No New Funding for Coal-Fired Power Stations Abroad

  09 Dec 2013

  British taxpayers' money will no longer be used to build coal-fired power stations in developi... . ...Read More

• Tighes Hill residents concerned about coal industry

  09 Dec 2013

  The local Tighes Hill action group says of the more than 200 people already questioned, nearly all... . ...Read More

• Steve Cawood: No better work force than Appalachian coal miners

  09 Dec 2013

  Harry Caudill wrote Night Comes to the Cumberlands before the coal boom of the 1970s and '80s,... . ...Read More

• Is There a Future for Coal?

  09 Dec 2013

    Over the past two years, coal miners have had a tough time. Fracking and horizontal drill... . ...Read More

• Chinese Coal Use to Hit 4.8 Billion Metric Tons Annually by 2020

  09 Dec 2013

  As the rest of the world moves away from using coal as an energy source due to its high emission o... . ...Read More