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• Stringent emission norms for TPPs soon: MoEFCC

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is planning to come out w... . ...Read More

• MoEFCC to bring out standard TOR for 39 sectors

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: In a bid to ease the process of granting environmental clearances (EC), the MoEFCC has i... . ...Read More

• NTPC aims to regulate coal imports in current fisc

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: NTPC Ltd, which had seen a 60% increase in imports of coal in 2014-15, plans to regulate... . ...Read More

• MCL output target increased to 250 mt by 2019-20

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: As part of CIL’s endeavour to achieve 1 billion tons of production by 2019-20, Mah... . ...Read More

• Power sector coal demand to hit 1 bn tons by ‘21-22

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: Even as CIL aims to achieve 1 billion tons of coal production by 2019-20, coal demand fr... . ...Read More

• Coking coal demand to touch 170 mt by 2025-26

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: With the Indian steel industry expected to reach a capacity of around 300 million tons b... . ...Read More

• Krishnapatnam to boost coal handling infrastructure

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: Krishnapatnam Port Company Limited (KPCL) plans to ramp up the existing infrastructure t... . ...Read More

• Mineral production index up 2.5% y-o-y in February

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: The index of mineral production of mining and quarrying sector for the month of February... . ...Read More

• Shree Cement completes 2nd phase of Rajasthan unit

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: Shree Cement Limited completed phase II of Ras, the new cement unit in the Pali district... . ...Read More

• Rio Tinto moves to new information systems platform

  16 Apr 2015

  April 16: Rio Tinto, a global diversified mining company, will move to a ground-breaking informati... . ...Read More

• India to overtake China as biggest thermal coal importer

  16 Apr 2015

  India is set to overtake China as the biggest importer of power-station coal, emerging as the lead... . ...Read More

• Fewer power cuts likely this summer as govt engineers coal turnaround

  16 Apr 2015

  Fewer power cuts are likely this summer after a surge in output at Coal India helped generators am... . ...Read More

• Coal India gets few takers for imported coal in maiden year

  16 Apr 2015

  State-owned Coal India, told by the Prime Minister’s Office to keep a provision for imports ... . ...Read More

• Coal linkage auction option baffles Chhattisgarh SMEs

  16 Apr 2015

  The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in mineral-rich Chhattisgarh are in a state of shock with ... . ...Read More

• Coal users demand exit clause in linkage agreement

  16 Apr 2015

  Planned auctioning of coal linkages, it appears, might be a tougher call for the government than p... . ...Read More