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• April retail inflation inches up to 8.59%

  13 May 2014

  May 13: Retail inflation in April, 2014, inched up to 8.59% from 8.31% in March, mainly on account... . ...Read More

• Leighton’s $5.5-b Indian coal mine contract cancelled

  13 May 2014

  Leighton Holdings Ltd. lost a contract to build the first coal mine for India’s biggest powe... . ...Read More

• Vigilance team to probe illegal coal mining

  13 May 2014

  The vigilance bureau of Jharkhand is confident of a fair inquiry into the illegal coal mining scam... . ...Read More

• Cleaning up coal in India

  13 May 2014

  India’s Enforcement Directorate has filed charges of money laundering against a former minis... . ...Read More

• JD(U) suspects UPA may close coal block cases

  13 May 2014

  The CBI had registered 17 FIRs last year. Expressing apprehension that the UPA regime may close... . ...Read More

• Panel meet on coal supply to end-use plants postponed

  13 May 2014

  The new date for the meeting will be intimated in due course, an official communication said. ... . ...Read More

• The new way to operate coal mines profitably

  13 May 2014

  For optimisation of mining operations, coal companies need to focus on their core competency of ma... . ...Read More

• Green nod for Maharashtra mine corp’s coal block deferred

  13 May 2014

  A high-level panel in the Environment Ministry has deferred the decision on granting green approva... . ...Read More

• Mafia dumped coal seized

  13 May 2014

  The police seized 34 tonne of coal illegally stocked by coal mafia in the forest areas of Giddi in... . ...Read More

• Indonesian thermal coal prices stable to higher, waiting direction from India

  13 May 2014

  Indonesian thermal coal prices were stable to higher on Monday with very few deals reported as the... . ...Read More

• Even If Coal Has Bottomed, Will It Ever Recover?

  13 May 2014

  Over the last few weeks, I've heard pundits and bloggers alike pontificate about the coal sect... . ...Read More

• Clean-up of Dan River coal ash spill beginsClean-up of Dan River coal ash spill begins

  13 May 2014

  The first full of day of cleaning up a 2,500-ton coal ash deposit near the Schoolfield Dam began M... . ...Read More

• 45 coal train cars derail near Pillager, Minn.

  13 May 2014

  Coal and crushed metal littered the BNSF Railway train tracks Monday near Pillager in central Minn... . ...Read More

• IEA: Coal use is spiking climate mitigation costs

  13 May 2014

  The global cost of pegging global warming to 2 degrees Celsius has risen by $8 trillion in the las... . ...Read More

• Lawmaker: Washington state coal plan hurts Montana

  13 May 2014

  A Republican congressman from Montana said Monday that his state's power generation and mining... . ...Read More