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• Efforts to buy coal mines in Australia in process: Coal India

  04 Sep 2017

  The efforts to buy coking coal mines overseas by state-owned Coal India (CIL) in Australia are in ... . ...Read More

• Coal India quashes privatisation rumours, says no coal shortage

  04 Sep 2017

  India is not facing any scarcity of coal and the output of Coal India Ltd is more than the country... . ...Read More

• Coal India nod for tech projects

  01 Sep 2017

  Coal India has approved around ₹60 crore worth of technology development projects taken up by th... . ...Read More

• Railways freight set to be hit as Coal India loading fails to meet target

  01 Sep 2017

  Despite Indian Railways (IR) putting in place enough wagons to transport coal, its freight from th... . ...Read More

• Domestic coal miners stare at subdued demand in medium-to-long term: ICRA

  01 Sep 2017

  Ratings agency ICRA expects aggregate domestic coal demand growth to witness a structural slowdown... . ...Read More

• ’Increased focus on renewable energy to impact demand for domestic coal’

  01 Sep 2017

  With the Centre focusing on increasing renewable energy (RE) capacity to nearly 175 GW by 2022, th... . ...Read More

• China plans safety inspections at coal mines, chemical plants

  31 Aug 2017

  China's cabinet said the government will launch nationwide safety inspections of coal mines, c... . ...Read More

• Chinese Coal Imports: All Fired Up Or Under Fire?

  31 Aug 2017

  Chinese seaborne steam coal imports have grown significantly in the last decade, from 17mt in 2008... . ...Read More

• Coal India yet to get a new chairman

  31 Aug 2017

  Coal India chairman Sutirtha Bhattacharya is slated to retire in two days, which may leave the com... . ...Read More

• Adani Enterprises surges 8% on all approvals for Carmichael coal mine in Australia

  31 Aug 2017

  Adani Enterprises shares rallied 8 percent to close at Rs 128.6 on Wednesday as Australian ministe... . ...Read More

• Glencore announces sale of QLD thermal coal mine

  30 Aug 2017

  Glencore has begun the sale process of its Rolleston thermal coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen... . ...Read More

• Fuel shortage: Private power plants being supplied coal in proportion to payment, says coal ministry

  30 Aug 2017

  The Association of Power Producers (APP) recently informed Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (Ind... . ...Read More

• ‘Logistics efficiency holds the key to CIL’s growth’

  30 Aug 2017

  According to Coal India Ltd’s (CIL) outgoing Chairman Sutirtha Bhattacharya, trimming logist... . ...Read More

• Go for value addition to lower steel imports: Minister to cos

  30 Aug 2017

  India should cut down its dependence on special steel product imports through value addition and f... . ...Read More

• China’s thermal coal market may remain buoyant on multi factors

  29 Aug 2017

  China’s thermal coal prices dropped slightly from recent highs, as supply tightness eased wi... . ...Read More