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• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asks world to help make coal greener

  20 Apr 2015

  Underlining that "coal will remain the most important source of energy for India and many oth... . ...Read More

• Gupta family welcomes probe into Eskom coal deal worth R400m

  20 Apr 2015

  The Gupta family has said it would welcome any investigation into the reported awarding of a coa... . ...Read More

• 24 Workers Trapped in Flooded Chinese Coal Mine

  20 Apr 2015

  At least 24 workers are trapped after water flooded a coal mine in north China's Shanxi Prov... . ...Read More

• Will solar be the bullet that kills coal?

  20 Apr 2015

  For the past few years, it has been assumed that natural gas is the enemy of coal, at least in the... . ...Read More

• Solar power will soon be as cheap as coal

  20 Apr 2015

  Inside a sprawling single-story office building in Bedford, Massachusetts, in a secret room known ... . ...Read More

• China Closing Coal-Power Plants Means for Emissions

  20 Apr 2015

  China’s recent scrapping of small coal plants will avoid the release of as much as 11.4 mill... . ...Read More

• Amid WVa tax reform push, Murray blasts coal tax for layoffs

  20 Apr 2015

  The day after state lawmakers started talking tax reform, Murray Energy laid off 214 miners with a... . ...Read More

• Mixed trends seen in international coal markets

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: A mixed trend prevailed in international coal markets on April 16 where prices of Austra... . ...Read More

• Linkage/LoA auctions methodology likely soon

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) set up for the proposed auction of coal linkages a... . ...Read More

• Doubts over generation capacity addition in FY15

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: At a time when demand for electricity is not growing in a way it was projected to, quest... . ...Read More

• NTPC FY16 coal import target hiked 33% to 22 mt

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: The coal import target for NTPC Limited’s power plants for the year 2015-16 has be... . ...Read More

• Indian power units’ FY16 coal import target up 22%

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: The Indian power utilities, both imported coal-based and indigenous coal-based, have bee... . ...Read More

• Coal stocks at power plants cross 28.50-mt levels

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: Coal stocks at power plants monitored by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) rose to... . ...Read More

• India’s 2015-16 power generation target at 1,136 BU

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: India’s power generation target for the year 2015-16 has been set at 1,136 billion... . ...Read More

• Panipat linkage transfer to new unit gets MoC nod

  17 Apr 2015

  April 17: The Ministry of Coal (MoC) has approved transfer of the existing coal linkage of the Pan... . ...Read More