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• Cabinet may allow CIL to produce gas from coal seams

  18 Dec 2013

    The Cabinet may this week allow state-owned miner Coal IndiaBSE 1.04 %  Ltd to pro... . ...Read More

• French GDF Suez acquires 74% stake in Meenakshi coal-based power project

  18 Dec 2013

  French energy company GDF Suez SA said on Tuesday that it has acquired 74% stake in the 1,000 mega... . ...Read More

• SC justifies court-monitored CBI probe into Coal scam

  18 Dec 2013

  The Supreme Court today justified the court-monitored CBI investigation into coal blocks allocatio... . ...Read More

• Australia to ship more iron ore as miners shrug off China risks

  18 Dec 2013

  Australia raised its forecasts for exports of iron ore and metallurgical coal -- its two top expor... . ...Read More

• Kicking the coal habit

  18 Dec 2013

  The issues of global warming and climate change are looming larger and larger in the public consci... . ...Read More

• Warren Buffett shows wind power rivals coal

  18 Dec 2013

  The decision by Warren Buffett's utility company to order about $1 billion of wind turbines fo... . ...Read More

• Is the coal industry about to wreck the Great Barrier Reef?

  18 Dec 2013

  Here’s a conundrum for you: Would it be better to protect Australia’s Great Barrier Re... . ...Read More

• The Last Great Coal Rush: The Business of Killing Earth

  18 Dec 2013

  It's December 17, 2013 and 80 degrees (F) in Los Angeles - we are in the midst of a mini-heat ... . ...Read More

• Kicking the coal habit

  18 Dec 2013

  The issues of global warming and climate change are looming larger and larger in the public consci... . ...Read More

• Little change in international coal markets

  17 Dec 2013

  December 17: The international coal markets remained largely unchanged on December 16 amidst offer... . ...Read More

• 24 CIL projects delayed in absence of clearance

  17 Dec 2013

  December 17: As many as 24 expansion and new projects of Coal India Ltd (CIL), entailing a total p... . ...Read More

• Govt to hold captive allocattees review meet on Dec 19

  17 Dec 2013

  December 17: Captive allocattees whose coal blocks have come under production and whose blocks are... . ...Read More

• IMC wants MoP/CEA to draft report on coal/rejects allocation

  17 Dec 2013

  December 17: The first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC), constituted for the formu... . ...Read More

• Electrical equipment industry clocks 9.8% growth in Q2

  17 Dec 2013

  December 17: After witnessing a weak growth in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal, the I... . ...Read More

• CIL hikes prices of coal produced by Western Coalfields by 10%

  17 Dec 2013

  Coal India on Monday hiked prices of non-coking coal produced by its subsidiary Western Coalfields... . ...Read More