February 19, 2019 03:21 PM IST
"We expect strong demand from the sponge iron industry, amounting to about 40-50 million tonnes," Rajendra Singh, chief operating officer of coal trading at India's largest coal trader Adani Enterprises said.
February 14, 2019 05:55 PM IST
The statement comes amid resistance from the trade unions operating in the coal sector against commercial coal mining.
February 10, 2019 03:23 PM IST
In a review meeting on the upcoming washeries of CIL, Coal Secretary Sumanta Chaudhuri expressed "his concerns on the delay in commissioning of washeries", according to the minutes of the meeting.
January 27, 2019 05:13 PM IST
The industry body pleaded that less than 250 mm sized coal should not be supplied through direct rail mode at the SECL sidings and should be allocated through washery or road mode, which are having the facilities to handle such ROM (run of mine) coal.
January 24, 2019 06:28 PM IST
"Coal India Ltd has supplied 389.63 MT coal to power sector during current year (up to January 22, 2019) registering a growth of eight per cent over the same period of last year," the coal ministry said in a statement.
January 21, 2019 11:17 AM IST
China approved more than 45 billion yuan's ($6.64 billion)worth of new coal mining projects last year, much more than 2017, official documents show.
January 16, 2019 12:11 PM IST
Chief Secretary Y Tsering issued the order directing authorities to ensure compliance of the directions of the Supreme Court without fail, they said.
January 16, 2019 12:08 PM IST
The order was passed by a bench comprising justices A K Sikri and S A Nazeer which refused the plea of miners to allow them to transport the extracted coal at various places.
January 13, 2019 04:54 PM IST
Chairman and Managing Director Gurdeep Singh has urged NCL to extend its support further to the upcounty power stations of NTPC including Mauda Thermal Power Station in Maharashtra under the Flexi Utilization of Domestic Coal scheme.
January 09, 2019 02:56 PM IST
India's bauxite output growth will accelerate to serve growing demand from the domestic aluminium industry, Fitch Solutions Macro Research said in its report.
January 04, 2019 02:09 PM IST
Replying to a query in the Question Hour, the Minister said coal production has witnessed an increase of 7.4 percent in April-December (nine months) period of the ongoing fiscal.
December 26, 2018 11:37 AM IST
Of the 85 mines already allotted, 23 have already started production and the Coal Ministry expects 20 more mines to begin production in the current financial year ending March 2019 or early in the next fiscal.
December 19, 2018 05:46 PM IST
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Coal Minister Piyush Goyal said that "there is no shortage of coal for the power plants of the country".
December 16, 2018 03:45 PM IST
The minister also claimed that none of the thermal power plants have reported any loss of generation due to coal supply shortage.
December 12, 2018 04:50 PM IST
"The value of India's coal imports have risen by 38.2 percent to Rs 1,38,477 crore in 2017-18. However, the quantity of coal imports has increased only by 9.1 percent from 190.95 MT to 208.27 MT," Coal and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
December 10, 2018 02:30 PM IST
Prosecutors said in a statement that the four people and their five entities were charged with violating a law requiring government approval to bring in North Korean products.
December 10, 2018 01:33 PM IST
Coal imports in November increased 10.1 percent to 19.47 MT, over 17.68 MT in the same period a year ago.
December 07, 2018 10:41 AM IST
Acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a proposal to dismantle a 2015 rule that any new coal power plants include cutting-edge techniques to capture the carbon dioxide from their smokestacks.
December 06, 2018 07:45 AM IST
"ICRA has given a stable outlook for the port sector, in its year-end assessment. The prospects for the Indian port sector players in the medium term are expected to be favourable, supported by continuing healthy growth in cargo of major volume drivers - Coal, Crude and Containers," the rating agency said in a statement.
November 30, 2018 06:43 PM IST
Despite efforts to tackle global warming, worldwide demand for coal was up one percent last year, mainly due to demand in Asia.
November 30, 2018 03:45 PM IST
While this is not the first time a state will buy all the power produced by the central utility, normally, a state gets 15 percent of power allocated to it while it can buy more under a power purchase agreement.
November 27, 2018 02:40 PM IST
Coal imports by the world's top consumer of the material used for power generation, heating and steelmaking rose in the first 10 months of 2018 to 252 million tonnes, up 11 percent from a year ago and not far below last year's total of 279 million tonnes, according to official data.
November 13, 2018 03:47 PM IST
The Paris-based IEA said in its World Energy Outlook 2018 that energy demand would grow by more than a quarter between 2017 and 2040 assuming more efficient use of energy - but would rise by twice that much without such improvements.
November 11, 2018 12:00 PM IST
However, there was a 6.8 percent drop in coal and coke imports in October as compared to 19.77 MT imported during the same month last financial year.
October 25, 2018 11:37 AM IST
Imports jumped 35 percent to 42.7 million tonnes during the three months ended Sept. 30, according to data from American Fuels & Natural Resources, a Dubai-based trader of coal from the United States which tracks coal shipments around the region.
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