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• Coal stolen from Bermo Central Coalfields Limited mines found during raid

  13 Jan 2014

  A special police team on Sunday found a huge stock of illegal coal while raid was conducted near K... . ...Read More

• Continued softness in steam coal market

  10 Jan 2014

  January 10: Seaborne steam coal prices continued to ease in international markets as buyers refrai... . ...Read More

• SCCL misses despatch target in December

  10 Jan 2014

  January 10: Singareni Colliers Company Limited (SCCL) has reported total coal despatches of 4.568 ... . ...Read More

• MoC extends NIA for block allocation to power cos

  10 Jan 2014

  January 10: The Ministry of Coal (MoC) has extended the period of the Notice Inviting Application ... . ...Read More

• NCL to procure bomb calorimeter, rear dumpers

  10 Jan 2014

  January 10: Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) has floated separate tenders for the procurement of bomb... . ...Read More

• Coking coal imports via Mormugao up 6.71% in Dec m-o-m

  10 Jan 2014

  January 10: Imports of coking coal via Mormugao port stood at 546,672 tons during the month of Dec... . ...Read More

• Steam coal imports via Mormugao fall 16.01% in Dec m-o-m

  10 Jan 2014

  January 10: Imports of non-coking (steam) coal via Mormugao port stood at 74,495 tons during the m... . ...Read More

• Allottees not responsible for absence of coal block approvals: CII

  10 Jan 2014

  Stung by the Supreme Court’s statement that huge investments made in coal blocks cannot be a... . ...Read More

• Coal ministry slaps notices on five power companies

  10 Jan 2014

  The coal ministry has issued show cause notices to five power companies -joint allottees of Fatehp... . ...Read More

• Attorney general tells govt to scrap 26 coal blocks, UPA fears 2G repeat

  10 Jan 2014

  Attorney general G E Vahanvati has advised the government to cancel coal block allocations to priv... . ...Read More

• Lanco said to consider sale of Australian Griffin Coal division

  10 Jan 2014

  Lanco is examining options including a full sale of Griffin Coal, which it bought for 750 mn Austr... . ...Read More

• Govt takes back MP coal block from Birla Corp

  10 Jan 2014

  Birla Corporation Ltd said that the Union Ministry of Coal (MOC) has de-allocated Bikram coal bloc... . ...Read More

• Goldman Sachs miner halts coal exports from Colombia

  10 Jan 2014

  Goldman Sachs (GS.N)-owned miner Colombian National Resources (CNR) has halted coal exports from C... . ...Read More

• Coal scam: Centre admits to irregularities in block allocations before SC

  10 Jan 2014

  The Centre on Thursday admitted before the Supreme Court that there were irregularities in coal bl... . ...Read More

• CM roar for coal royalty

  10 Jan 2014

  Chief minister Hemant Soren and chief secretary R.S. Sharma today pulled out all stops to seek gre... . ...Read More