CLOSING BELL: Among sectors, the Nifty IT index slipped 0.9 per cent, while the Nifty Metal index advanced 1.6 per cent
NTPC and Coal India had awarded import contracts to Adani
After long power outages owing to coal shortages over two years, the government and its principal producer have drawn up an integrated plan to preclude the annual seasonal supply dislocations
The latest wage revision which would benefit around 2.39 lakh non-executive manpower of coal India has been due since July 1, 2021.
To ensure adequate supply of coal to various sectors, including power, the government has set a target of 1 billion tonnes coal production for Coal India Ltd (CIL)
NMDC shares drop 5.3%; ONGC, Coal India and Bharat Electronics likely to see inflows of $31-46 million on account of the rebalancing
Workers are seeking a 47 per cent increase in wages - having earlier demanded a 50 per cent hike - while Coal India has offered a 3 per cent raise
A total of 11 importers and some overseas traders had shown interest in the tender during the pre-bid meeting
It had produced 124 MT coal in the year-ago period, Coal India Limited (CIL) said in a statement
The country's largest domestic supplier has been appointed a quasi-canalising agency for sourcing overseas supplies
The quarterly recapping of Nifty indices takes into account the changes in free-float market capitalisation (m-cap) of companies and realigns their weighting
Coal India braced up to meet its part of committed coal supplies to power sector, says Chairman Pramod Agrawal
Coal India unit North Eastern Coalfields is in the process of seeking clearances for putting into operation two of its mines in Assam in the current financial year
In the past one year, the non-power sector has seen coal dispatch fall by 33 per cent
CLOSING BELL: This was the first gain for benchmark indices in seven days
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The imported coal would be supplied to state government-owned gencos and independent power producers (IPPs), 1.2 mt each
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The comments come at a time when there have been concerns about global climate change on account of the burning of fossil fuels including coal, resulting into greenhouse gas emission.
Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd, a pioneer in the field of coal bed methane in India, plans to invest about USD 2 billion (Rs 15,000 crore) in exploration of shale gas at its Raniganj South block in West Bengal, its MD & CEO Prashant Modi said. "We want to recreate in shale what we did for CBM," he said. "We pioneered exploration, production, and development of CBM in India." CBM (Coal Bed Methane) is gas trapped below coal seams. GEECL signed the first CBM contract in India for the Raniganj South block on May 31, 2001. "We were the first to commercialise CBM in July 2007," he said. Prior to this, the firm's CBM block was under an agreement with Coal India Ltd. since 1993. At that time, CBM was practically not present in Asia and was still at a nascent stage worldwide. "We have a huge potential of shale resource of up to 6.63 trillion cubic feet (TCF) in our block," he said. "We are awaiting the amendment to our petroleum mining lease for shale exploration from the West ...