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• Singareni sees flat growth in February despatches

  03 Mar 2016

  Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) reported only a 0.22% growth in coal despatches in Februar... . ...Read More

• SCCL production growth drops to nil in Feb

  03 Mar 2016

  After a stupendous growth in the first 10 months of 2015-16, Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCC... . ...Read More

• Row Over Nellore Power Plant: Power For 5 Million Or Reason To Fear?

  03 Mar 2016

  A Rs. 20,000 crore thermal project in Nellore, which is the largest Foreign Direct Inves... . ...Read More

• TATA Motors Joins Re100 In Drive For 100% Renewable Power

  03 Mar 2016

  Tata Motors Ltd, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has become the second Indian compa... . ...Read More

• Greenpeace says China increasing coal¬fired capacity

  03 Mar 2016

  Greenpeace East Asia said on Wednesday that China had a total of 210 coal power projects in the pi... . ...Read More

• As coal turns dirty, Indian companies strike gold

  03 Mar 2016

  When Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio talked of climate change while accepting Oscar award from t... . ...Read More

• High life, low coal price sends Australian mining baron bankrupt

  03 Mar 2016

  Rags-to-riches coal mining baron Nathan Tinkler, who rode the mining boom to become Australia'... . ...Read More

• Govt to get Rs 40,000 crore by 2018 from coal cess: Piyush Goyal

  03 Mar 2016

  Proceeds from the higher coal cess will be to the tune of Rs 40,000 crore by 2018 which will be us... . ...Read More

• Power index up 2%, green for 2nd day running

  02 Mar 2016

  The power index was marginally up on Wednesday due to the overall positive sentiment and global cu... . ...Read More

• Spot prices move sideways in global coal markets

  02 Mar 2016

  Seaborne coal prices remained largely unchanged in the international markets on March 1.   ... . ...Read More

• Coal India February coal production up 4% y-o-y

  02 Mar 2016

  Coal India Ltd (CIL) reported a 4.16% year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in coal production to 51.01 mill... . ...Read More

• CIL coal off-take edges up 5% in February y-o-y

  02 Mar 2016

  Coal India Ltd (CIL) achieved a 5.46% growth in coal off-take in February 2016 to 45.53 million to... . ...Read More

• CIL Feb overburden removal beats target by 24%

  02 Mar 2016

  In February 2016, CIL achieved 107.79 mn cum of overburden removal (OBR), against the target of 87... . ...Read More

• MCL likely to see 10 mt shortfall in coal output

  02 Mar 2016

  Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL), which has been given a steep target of 150 million tons (mt) in 201... . ...Read More

• MCL allots Rs 1,746 cr for land acquisition till 2020

  02 Mar 2016

  Plagued with recurrent land hassles, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) has chalked out a plan to de-bo... . ...Read More