The country had imported 165.35 MT of coal in the year-ago period, according to provisional compilation by mjunction

As part of strengthening the quality monitoring, the government will also have quality standards set for many of these products

In the last month, the production was about 8 million tonne higher from 50.2 million tonne produced in November

Coal imports in November declined by marginal 0.8 per cent to 17.80 MT, against 17.95 MT in the same month last fiscal

Bidding for 14 blocks on offer in the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) round-II and another 18 oil and gas blocks and 5 coal-bed methane (CBM) blocks on offer in OALP-III closed on Wednesday

On November 30, ONGC's market value remained 34 per cent below its all-time high annual average of Rs 2,72,663 crore for financial year 2013/14.

the reverse repo rate under the LAF remains at 5.75 per cent, and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate at 6.25 per cent.

IRB Infrastructure (3.29 percent), Jubilant FoodWorks (2.81 percent) and Prestige Estates (1.89 percent) are the top losers on the BSE. Market breadth is positive with 1,718 stocks advancing against 758 falling on the BSE. 125 stocks are unchanged. Tata Steel (2.37 percent), Maruti Suzuki (2.36 percent) and NTPC (2.20 percent) are the top gainers on Sensex.

The Sensex erased gains during the last hour of trade and closed 118 points higher at 33,478 level in Tuesday's trade. The Nifty too rose 28.15 points or 0.27 percent with Asian markets trading in green tracking overnight gains in US markets on strong economic data. Here are the key highlights, which affected the market today.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met today for the second edition of bi-annual policy meeting to review the interest rates.

The market, experts and research houses were all expecting a 25 basis points cut in the repo rate - at 6.25 per cent currently - in the RBI monetary policy today. The assumption was based on the fact that retail inflation had eased considerably since the last policy in December, 2016.

The trend of negative export growth was reversed somewhat during April-December (2016/17), with exports growing at 0.7 per cent to $198.8 billion. Imports declined by 7.4 per cent to $ 275.4 billion in the same period.

The minutes showed that all members of the committee considered that the impact on growth of demonetisation of large denomination bank notes would be transitory.

On a fortnightly basis, global equity markets traded on a positive note as a result of the dovish statement made by the US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who commented on the need for stabilization of foreign economies and its markets.

The growth rate of infrastructure sectors accelerated to a 15-month high of 5.7 per cent in February due to a sharp pick-up in fertiliser and cement output and higher production of electricity during the month.

Fall in imports affected the trade balance as deficit fell to $9.78 billion as against $16.23 billion in November 2014. However, the November trade deficit was marginally higher than $9.76 billion in October.