According to coal ministry officials, the Bill is likely to be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Ordinance, 2014 was brought in October this year in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision cancelling 214 coal blocks.
Coal requirement for the plant would be met through Coal India.
Fresh buying by domestic institutional investors and better-than-expected June quarter results from some blue-chip companies boosted investor sentiment
The upgrade comes after the domestic markets scaled their lifetime highs last week.
It is domestic policy distortions and inaction to correct them that lie behind the large CADs.
In contrast, investors' wealth had surged by over Rs 1 lakh crore (Rs 1 trillion) to Rs 70,44,431 crore (Rs 70,444.31 billion) in 2013.
'Can the Aam Aadmi Party challenge the BJP? Someday perhaps. But to set him up as a national alternative just now smacks of the very sin that Arvind Kejriwal admits brought him down in 2014 -- arrogance.'
However, TCS, ITC, Infosys, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Sun Pharma added Rs 27k cr in m-cap
Reliance improved its ranking this year to 121 from 142 last year, with a market value of $50.6 billion and assets worth $91.5 billion.
Most of the session's gains for both the indices were wiped out as investors rushed to book profits ahead of F&O expiry on Thursday and also due to concerns over stretched valuations.
The blocks are Kunur mine in West Bengal, Morga South A, Morga South B, Meguli mines and Phutamera in Chhattisgarh, Dahegaon Dhapewada and Kalambi Kalmeshwar blocks in Maharashtra, Karanpura Mahuamilan mine in Jharkhand.
Putting money in key PSUs a better option
The CIL disinvestment has been hanging fire because of opposition from the trade unions. Mayaram's statement that the coal major will have to pay a higher dividend comes as the government makes efforts to meet its Rs 40,000 crore (Rs 400 billion) disinvestment target.
The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 207 points to end at 25,230.
The Finance Ministry has invited private sector bankers.
The IPO is expected to bring handsome fees for the selected banks at a time when billion-dollar listings have become scarce
Gains in key IT, capital goods, healthcare and metal stocks, after consistent buying by domestic and foreign investors, helped both the key indices to scale new peaks.
Indian CEOs might like to make some serious course correction.
The BSE gauge Sensex fell 73.88 points to 35,548.26 and the NSE Nifty slid 17.85 points to 10,799.85, taking cues from tumbling global shares.
Tata Steel (then Tata Iron and Steel), the most valuable index company in 1991, is now the least valuable.
The New Year 2015, however, may see shares worth over Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) being put on the table by the government, including by way of part-sale of its holdings in PSUs and its residual minority stakes in some private sector entities.
Investors lost around Rs 1.57 lakh crore in market valuation on Friday.
Goyal's statement comes in the wake of RGPPL board giving its approval last month for the conversion of debt into equity equivalent to interest dues of Rs 405 crore (Rs 4.05 billion).
The total market valuation of all BSE-listed firms on Thursday regained the Rs 100-trillion mark as the benchmark Sensex climbed over 600 points after the RBI surprisingly cut interest rate by 25 basis points.
Costlier oil due to rising conflict in Iraq threatens to hurt the India economy that is already battling price rise and slowing growth.
Even as the September quarter performance was subdued, analysts expect the second half to be better on higher prices, output.
Unfazed by the stalemate over the Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti issue, government has lined up a heavy legislative agenda in Parliament this week including a bill seeking to replace coal blocks allocation ordinance.
The combined market valuation of top nine Sensex firms advanced by a whopping Rs 1.39 lakh crore with energy majors ONGC and RIL emerging as the star performers, while TCS saw a marginal dip last week when stock market recorded life-time highs.
The government on Friday said the auction of explored coal blocks may take place either by December or the beginning of the next year.
While CIL, HDFC Bank, SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC saw rise in their market cap, TCS, RIL, ONGC, ITC and Infosys witnessed fall in their valuations for the week ended April 25.
He said manufacturing ethanol and biogas from waste could result in savings to the tune of Rs 5 lakh crore annually
Govt has drawn list of PSUs for strategic sale: Jaitley
The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its final verdict on coal mine allocations later this week.
Financial shares were the top losers.
India's hydroelectric power generation grew 17.5 per cent to 7.5 billion units in January this year from 6.4 billion units in the same month of 2012.
Market players said the sell-off was triggered by pessimism that the government may not be able to balance growth with macro-stability.
Midcap stocks continued to remain on buyers' radar with BSE Midcap index up 0.1%.
At the bank's current market price, the stake on offer is worth about Rs 5,700 crore
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Of these 36 coal blocks, one mine will be given to the steel sector while the rest will be given to the power sector.