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• Short supply of coal pushes up freight cost at MP power plant

  01 Jun 2015

  Mismanagement and irregularities in railway freight (coal) movement has badly hit thermal power st... . ...Read More

• Essar Oil to ramp up coal gas production in Bengal

  01 Jun 2015

  Indian energy multinational Essar Oil is in the process of ramping up production of coal bed metha... . ...Read More

• Coal mines are property of states: Narendra Singh Tomar

  01 Jun 2015

  Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar today dismissed the Congress' charge that Centre was encro... . ...Read More

• Coal scam case: Court warns CBI officer, asks him to pull up socks

  01 Jun 2015

  A CBI officer, investigating a coal scam case involving former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda... . ...Read More

• Obama opens thousands more acres of public land to coal mining

  01 Jun 2015

  Environmentalists have long objected to the US government leasing large swaths of public land to c... . ...Read More

• Coal to continue to be the dominant power source in Pakistan

  01 Jun 2015

  Finally, sanity prevails and we take a step towards supporting the faltering power sector with the... . ...Read More

• 35,000 MW power plants to boost coal consumption in Indonesia

  01 Jun 2015

  The government’s program to develop 35,000 megawatt (MW) power plants will increase domestic... . ...Read More

• Madrid Goes to Bat for Local Coal

  01 Jun 2015

  Spain’s Industry Ministry announced this week that they would present plants to require elec... . ...Read More

• Fixing China’s Coal Problem

  01 Jun 2015

  When William Latta first came to China, in 2005, he intended to look for companies to acquire for ... . ...Read More

• The American coal industry is collapsing

  01 Jun 2015

  Just five years ago, the American coal industry was looking strong. Business was good. Opponents o... . ...Read More

• Coal India Q4 profit falls 4.41% to Rs4,238.55 crore

  29 May 2015

  Coal India Ltd (CIL)’s net profit for the quarter ended March fell by 4.41% from a year earl... . ...Read More

• To announce linkage auction mechanism by June: Coal Secy

  29 May 2015

  Having successfully completed the coal block auction earlier this year, which netted the exchequer... . ...Read More

• Coal India to invest Rs 5000 crore to procure railway wagons

  29 May 2015

  Coal India will invest Rs 5,000 crore in the Railways to procure wagons for speedy transportation ... . ...Read More

• PAC to prepare reports of CAG findings on gas pricing, coal allocation

  29 May 2015

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Thursday decided to prepare draft reports on ... . ...Read More

• Coal supplied to power firms in public interest, says Mumbai Port

  29 May 2015

  In response to a Bombay High Court petition over the immense pollution caused by toxic mountains o... . ...Read More