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• CAG begins audit of NDA’s e-auction of coal mines

  28 May 2015

  The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has started a review of the Modi government's recent... . ...Read More

• Coal linkage to Katwa power plant will help NTPC float tender

  28 May 2015

  With the Centre's assurance to extend coal linkage to Katwa Thermal Power Plant, the NTPC, whi... . ...Read More

• Singareni co, Caterpiller parleys to hike coal output from Adriyala mine

  28 May 2015

  The State-owned mining company Singareni Collieries Company Limited today held a meeting with Cate... . ...Read More

• Coal allocation: Manmohan Singh took ‘ultimate decision’, says ex-coal secy

  28 May 2015

  Former Coal Secretary H C Gupta, an accused in a coal block allocation case, said Wednesday that i... . ...Read More

• Extreme heat takes toll on coal output; state governments ask Coal India to alter production schedule

  28 May 2015

  Extreme heat is taking a toll on coal production. State governments have asked certain subsidiarie... . ...Read More

• China’s Coal Use May Have Peaked Years Ahead Of Schedule

  28 May 2015

  China’s coal use fell by nearly 8 percent in the first four months of 2015 versus the same p... . ...Read More

• Planned Australian thermal coal mines could displace PRB exports

  28 May 2015

  Planned Australian thermal coal production from the Galilee Basin, while not bound for the same As... . ...Read More

• South Africa doesn’t have enough coal for power plants beyond 2016

  28 May 2015

  South Africa’s state power utility Eskom doesn’t not have enough coal in stock to meet... . ...Read More

• Glencore slips on weak thermal coal prospects

  28 May 2015

  Glencore has slipped back after Morgan Stanley pointed to poor prospects for its thermal coal busi... . ...Read More

• Japan Coal Revival Ducks Scrutiny With Small Plants, Critics Say

  28 May 2015

  As Japan burns more coal following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, power producers are able to duc... . ...Read More

• Deal to phase out rich-world coal export subsidies elusive

  28 May 2015

  The world's richest nations are unlikely to reach a deal to phase out subsidies for coal expor... . ...Read More

• The war on coal is real, and one side is clearly winning

  28 May 2015

  The coal industry is in trouble. In an in-depth new report from Politico, one of the coal indust... . ...Read More

• What to do with all these dead coal-fired power plants?

  28 May 2015

  About 13 gigawatts worth of coal-fired power plants are closing this year to comply with the U.S. ... . ...Read More

• Inside the war on coal

  28 May 2015

  The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious pollu... . ...Read More

• Coal linkage auction: Spectrum-like auctioning likely for unregulated sector

  27 May 2015

  SBI Caps, in a report, which would be the basis for a policy paper on mechanism for granting coal ... . ...Read More