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• Shortage of coal hits JITPL power plant

  08 Sep 2017

  The 1200 MW plant of Jindal India Thermal Power Limited (JITPL), located near Talcher coalfield, i... . ...Read More

• Rio Tinto climbs after 50% lift in coal reserves at Australian mine

  07 Sep 2017

  Rio Tinto shares lifted 1 per cent on Thursday morning after the company announced a 50 per cent i... . ...Read More

• Green clearance, Law & Order problems delay 89% Coal India projects

  07 Sep 2017

  As many as 89 projects of Coal India are running behind schedule due to reasons such as delay in g... . ...Read More

• Coal crunch stalls steel, power units in Odisha

  07 Sep 2017

  Non-availability of adequate railway rakes has disrupted supplies of coal to industries in Odisha.... . ...Read More

• China domestic thermal coal supply likely to remain tight amid safety checks: Citi

  06 Sep 2017

  China’s supply of spot domestic thermal coal might remain constrained in the coming months d... . ...Read More

• BHP upbeat on ore, coal price outlook

  06 Sep 2017

  BHP Billiton says prices of the nation’s two biggest exports — iron ore and coking coa... . ...Read More

• ‘Bringing coal back on track is priority for Indian Railways’

  06 Sep 2017

  The new Railways Minister Piyush Goyal, who also retains charge of the Coal Ministry, has assumed ... . ...Read More

• No more coal power as India shifts to sun, wind

  05 Sep 2017

  No new coal-based power plants will be allowed by the Centre, apart from the ones already under co... . ...Read More

• Coal India sets up monitoring cell for supply to thermal power plants

  05 Sep 2017

  To make it easier for thermal power plants facing coal shortage, the State-owned Coal India Ltd ha... . ...Read More

• Coal India gains 3% on production and offtake data, appointment of new CMD

  05 Sep 2017

  Coal India shares rallied nearly 3 percent intraday Monday after August production and offtake dat... . ...Read More

• RK Singh named new Power Minister, Goyal retains Coal Ministry

  04 Sep 2017

  The government has named former bureaucrat Raj Kumar Singh as Minister of State (Independent Charg... . ...Read More

• Goyal’s tenure: Reforms in coal auctions to UDAY, green energy push

  04 Sep 2017

  In last three years, Goyal, as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New and... . ...Read More

• Efforts to buy coal mines in Australia in process: Coal India

  04 Sep 2017

  The efforts to buy coking coal mines overseas by state-owned Coal India (CIL) in Australia are in ... . ...Read More

• Coal India quashes privatisation rumours, says no coal shortage

  04 Sep 2017

  India is not facing any scarcity of coal and the output of Coal India Ltd is more than the country... . ...Read More

• Coal India nod for tech projects

  01 Sep 2017

  Coal India has approved around ₹60 crore worth of technology development projects taken up by th... . ...Read More