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• G4 grade coal sees good demand in Sept e-auction

  07 Oct 2013

  October 7: G4 grade coal (GCV range 6,100 Kcal/kg to 6,400 Kcal/kg) offered for allotment through ... . ...Read More

• Moderate demand for G5 grade coal in September e-auction

  07 Oct 2013

  October 7: There was moderate demand for G5 grade coal (GCV range 5,800 to 6,100 Kcal/kg) at the e... . ...Read More

• New Mangalore Port to hike coal handling capacity by 6.6 mt

  07 Oct 2013

  October 7: New Mangalore Port trust(NMPT), one of the leading ports of India, aims to increase its... . ...Read More

• Power sector issues: Problem not of coal supply, but of demand from thermal plants

  07 Oct 2013

  Almost unnoticed, a strange transformation has come about in the power sector. For the last few ye... . ...Read More

• Surplus coal usage formula by month-end: BK Chaturvedi

  07 Oct 2013

  Days after Coal India rejected a proposal to act as a bank for surplus coal in the country, Planni... . ...Read More

• Private power comapanies violating coal block norms

  07 Oct 2013

  Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the jurisdiction of Supreme Court (SC) i... . ...Read More

• Power Ministry seeks to revise tapering coal supply linkages

  07 Oct 2013

  The Power Ministry has asked the Coal Ministry to consider converting short-term coal supply pac... . ...Read More

• Electricity generation to grow by 5.7% in 2013-14

  07 Oct 2013

  Total electricity generation in India is expected to grow at a healthy pace in 2013-14. In its r... . ...Read More

• Andhra Pradesh :Stir pulls the plug on power generation

  07 Oct 2013

  Several Seemandhra districts plunged into darkness for the second consecutive day as power gen... . ...Read More

• Gujarat :Power generation by govt-owned units dipped by 30% in last 1 year

  07 Oct 2013

  Power generation by Gujarat government-owned units have dipped by almost 30% in the last one yea... . ...Read More

• Power Production at South India Nuclear Plant Likely to Start Next Month

  07 Oct 2013

  Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd. would likely start producing electricity by the end of October... . ...Read More

• Coal India misses production target by 6 MT during April-September 2013

  07 Oct 2013

  Coal India has missed production targets by six million tonnes during the first half of 2012-13 ... . ...Read More

• Myanmar: India’s Tata to develop coal power plant in Pathein

  07 Oct 2013

  Indian power producer Tata Power has reached an agreement with the government to build a new coal-... . ...Read More

• Coal India, under a haze of scrutiny, eyes Australian miners

  07 Oct 2013

  Coal India Limited is preparing to buy assets in Australia to secure India’s coal-powered fu... . ...Read More

• Why the coal auction norms are sadly sub-optimal?

  07 Oct 2013

  After many months of delay and dither, the government has tweaked the norms to allow competitive b... . ...Read More