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• Cement deals dominate top five M&A deals in 2016

  29 Dec 2016

  Fuelled by a consolidation wave and rising confidence in the country’s economic growth prosp... . ...Read More

• EIA report shows shift in global coal demand

  29 Dec 2016

  Global demand for coal is shifting from the U.S., according to a new report from the Energy Inform... . ...Read More

• JITPL unit shut for coal crisis

  29 Dec 2016

  One of the two 600 mw units of independent power producer, Jindal India Thermal Power Plant Limite... . ...Read More

• Guest columnist: Into the sunset with coal

  29 Dec 2016

  A couple days ago, I asked this question of my environmental science students: “Given that W... . ...Read More

• Coal Will Walk A Ledge in 2017

  29 Dec 2016

  For coal, 2016 was the worst of times and the best of times. A year that began with plunging produ... . ...Read More

• Note ban to delay recovery in cement demand by a year

  27 Dec 2016

  Cement demand is unlikely to recover for another year due to demonetisation and increase in pric... . ...Read More

• China Industrial Profits Climb 14.5%, Led by Coal And Metals

  27 Dec 2016

  Profits at industrial firms in China accelerated in November, with raw material producers leading ... . ...Read More

• Coal Demand Is Shifting To Asia

  27 Dec 2016

  In its medium-term coal market report for 2016, IEA reports that global coal demand growth has sta... . ...Read More

• Green Energy Producers Hopeful Despite Trump’s Coal Promise

  26 Dec 2016

  Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a tren... . ...Read More

• 900 tonne of illegal coal found in Gomia, Jharkhand

  26 Dec 2016

  Police found more than 900 tonne of illegal coal during a raid at Tirla under Mahuataad police sta... . ...Read More

• Low Costs of Solar Power & Wind Power Crush Coal, Crush Nuclear, & Beat Natural Gas

  26 Dec 2016

  The first point is the very basic fact that new wind power and/or solar power plants are typically... . ...Read More

• NTPC commissions 800 mw unit of Kudgi Super thermal power plant

  26 Dec 2016

  NTPC Ltd has commissioned the Unit-1 of 800 MW of Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project on December 25... . ...Read More

• Cement dispatches have come off by about 10% in the domestic market: Bina Engineer, Director - Finance, Sanghi Industries

  23 Dec 2016

  In an interview with ET Now, Bina Engineer, Director ­ Finance, Sanghi Industries, speaks ab... . ...Read More

• Prism Cement: Q2 sales disappoint; tile, bath, kitchen business a drag

  23 Dec 2016

  The second quarter of fiscal 2017 was a dismal one for Prism Cements. No wonder the stock has lost... . ...Read More

• Two charts show how UK coal use is collapsing

  23 Dec 2016

  The amount of coal burned in the UK is falling rapidly, new government data shows. The collapse ha... . ...Read More