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• 7 lignite, coal blocks identified for UCG, says Goyal

  14 Dec 2015

  India Coal Market watch December 11: Piyush Goyal, the Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal ... . ...Read More

• Govt carrying out Rs 200-cr research projects on coal

  14 Dec 2015

  India Coal Market Watch  December 11: The Government of India (GoI) has 34 on-going researc... . ...Read More

• Coal stocks at India’s power plants increase sharply

  14 Dec 2015

  India Coal Market Watch  December 11: Coal stock levels at about 100 thermal power plants m... . ...Read More

• Neyveli Lignite mines flooded, power generation down

  14 Dec 2015

  India Coal Market Watch December 11: The recent deluge in Tamil Nadu has almost marooned Neyve... . ...Read More

• Coal prices move sideways in flat international market

  14 Dec 2015

  India Coal Market Watch  December 11: Spot thermal coal prices showed a marginal weakness i... . ...Read More

• Falling oil and coal prices raise the bar for renewables

  14 Dec 2015

  Of all the millions of words written about the Paris climate deal over the weekend, this one by AN... . ...Read More

• Gupta’s Tegeta buys Optimum Coal for $136m

  14 Dec 2015

  Tegeta Exploration and Resources, a subsidiary of Oakbay Investments Group, has bought the assets ... . ...Read More

• Rio Tinto cuts capital spending forecast to $5bn next year

  14 Dec 2015

  Rio Tinto Group, the second-largest mining company, cut its capital expenditure forecast for 2016 ... . ...Read More

• Atlantic met coal: US takes aim on Benchmark HCC reference

  14 Dec 2015

  Atlantic metallurgical coal buyers and miners Friday were positive on the reported $81/mt hard cok... . ...Read More

• Paris talks: All is well for India in deal, except coal line

  14 Dec 2015

  India has reasons to be satisfied with the Paris Agreement on climate change that was finalised on... . ...Read More

• Coal India divestment meets FPI resistance

  14 Dec 2015

  Opposing an immediate stake sale in Coal India Ltd, foreign portfolio investors (FPI) have told th... . ...Read More

• CIL output rise will cut coal imports: Government

  14 Dec 2015

  Coal imports come down from 136.6 million tonnes in April-Nov. (2014) to 119.9 (MT) in 2015 Coal... . ...Read More

• Modi government to seek Cabinet nod to allow commercial mining of coal by state utilities

  14 Dec 2015

  The government is poised to undertake the next big-ticket reform in the coal sector by allowing st... . ...Read More

• Pet coke imports via Karaikal Port up 52% in Nov m-o-m

  11 Dec 2015

  India Coal Market Watch  December 10: Imports of pet coke through Karaikal Port increased b... . ...Read More

• Steam coal imports via Karaikal up 22% in Nov m-o-m

  11 Dec 2015

  India Coal Market Watch  December 10: In November 2015, steam coal imports via Karaikal Por... . ...Read More