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• NTPC opts for early closure of bond issue

  05 Dec 2013

  December 5: NTPC Ltd, which had floated a public issue of tax-free secured redeemable non-converti... . ...Read More

• Cement sector growth estimated at 3% in FY’14

  05 Dec 2013

  December 5: The Indian cement industry is expected to notch up a modest growth of around 3% in 201... . ...Read More

• Coking coal imports via Mormugao fall 26.95% in Nov m-o-m

  05 Dec 2013

  December 5: Import of coking coal via Mormugao port stood at 512,314 tons during the month of Nove... . ...Read More

• Non-coking coal imports via Mormugao at 88,700 tons in Nov

  05 Dec 2013

  December 5: Import of non-coking coal via Mormugao port stood at 88,700 tons during the month of N... . ...Read More

• Restrict surplus coal transfer within end-use sector: Chaturvedi panel

  05 Dec 2013

  Surplus production, if any, has to be transferred to the nearest CIL subsidiary at a transfer pric... . ...Read More

• Govt mulls framing policy on using rejects from coal washeries

  05 Dec 2013

  A committee will assess the actual rejects generated from CIL washeries and formulate suitable gui... . ...Read More

• Asian twins show huge appetite for coal

  05 Dec 2013

  World coal demand is forecast to grow by 1.2 billion tonnes in the next five years – and mor... . ...Read More

• Yashwant Sinha ends protests over coal dumps

  05 Dec 2013

  The four-day dharna, led by BJP MP Yashwant Sinha, under the aegis of Gramin Visthapit Morcha,... . ...Read More

• RWE opens Indian office for trade in coal, LNG and fertilisers

  05 Dec 2013

  German utility RWE has opened an office in Mumbai to strengthen the Asian presence of its trading ... . ...Read More

• Deadlock at Talcher coal mines hits ECoR traffic

  05 Dec 2013

  The recent deadlock in Odisha’s Talcher mines under Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) has cost t... . ...Read More

• Probe Top Cop Role in Talcher Coal Belt, Says Congress

  05 Dec 2013

    The demand for a high level probe into the involvement of a top police official in the ra... . ...Read More

• The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels

  05 Dec 2013

  THERE’S a lot of hand-wringing about our warming planet, but billions of people face a more ... . ...Read More

• Glasenberg Raises Glencore’s Bet on Coal as BHP Pauses: Energy

  05 Dec 2013

  Ivan Glasenberg, the billionaire running commodities supplier Glencore Xstrata Plc, is investing m... . ...Read More

• Euro Coal-Prices remain little changed in thin trading

  05 Dec 2013

  European physical coal prices were little changed in thin trading on Wednesday as most European ut... . ...Read More

• Coal, the dirty but indispensable fuel: Kemp

  05 Dec 2013

  Supporters of renewables often imply the clean-energy revolution is close to phasing out fossil fu... . ...Read More