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• Coal India to meet trade unions to avert strike

  19 Sep 2013

  Coal India Ltd (CIL) will meet trade unions on Friday to make a last-ditch attempt to avert a prop... . ...Read More

• Coal is not for charity: Supreme Court

  19 Sep 2013

  Coal is a valuable natural resource and it cannot be allocated for charity, the Supreme Court toda... . ...Read More

• Court orders Centre to produce records on coal block identification

  19 Sep 2013

  ‘Unless the issue is answered, we can’t proceed further,’ it tells AG The Sup... . ...Read More

• Coal India sanctions Rs 2,295 cr for new mining projects

  19 Sep 2013

  State-owned Coal India Ltd has sanctioned Rs 2,294.79 crore for four new mining projects with an e... . ...Read More

• Coal Ministry dragging its feet on filing FIR over missing files

  19 Sep 2013

  As the role of many officials, both former and present, of the Coal, Steel, Power, and Mines Minis... . ...Read More

• Power Ministry favours returning of surplus coal to Coal India

  19 Sep 2013

  In the back drop of the Coal Ministry's proposed surplus coal policy, Power Ministry has said ... . ...Read More

• Coal India indentifies 126 projects in 12th plan

  19 Sep 2013

    Even as the State-owned coal behemoth Coal India has identified 126 projects with an estim... . ...Read More

• Shareholders disrupt Coal India AGM

  19 Sep 2013

  The Coal India Ltd AGM was disrupted for over an hour (from around 11 a.m.) after a section of s... . ...Read More

• Wyoming Coal Sale Canceled by U.S. on Bid at 15-Year Low

  19 Sep 2013

  The U.S. government rejected the sale of coal in Wyoming after an auction drew the lowest top bi... . ...Read More

• South Africa coal wage talks at

  19 Sep 2013

  Wage talks in South Africa's coal sector will continue on Thursday after unions and companies ... . ...Read More

• Mississippi Coal Plant Overruns Show Risks of Carbon Rule

  19 Sep 2013

  Coal’s future is being built in rural Mississippi, and so far this is what it looks like: a ... . ...Read More

• No change in international coal prices

  18 Sep 2013

  September 18: The spot coal prices in major markets remained largely unchanged on continued absenc... . ...Read More

• CEA confident 3-day CIL stir not hit power generation

  18 Sep 2013

  September 18: The Central Electricity Authority has made all efforts to ensure that none of the po... . ...Read More

• CIL hopeful of averting 3-day strike

  18 Sep 2013

  September 18: The Coal India Ltd (CIL) board is hopeful that it will be able to dissuade the trade... . ...Read More

• CIL may not need to resort to imports in 2013-14

  18 Sep 2013

  September 18: Coal India Ltd (CIL), which has started doing the spadework for importing coal to su... . ...Read More