Rescuers have ended a 44-day search operation after they found the bodies of five men who were trapped inside a flooded coal ...

After nearly a decade-long ban, Meghalaya has inaugurated its first scientific coal mine in East Jaintia Hills. This follows ...

Assam detects 263 illegal coal mines, seizes 25,630 tonnes of illegal coal. Political involvement and demand for independent investigation arise.

Guwahati (Assam) [India], February 20 (ANI): After 44 days, the bodies of the remaining five miners who were trapped inside the flooded rat-hole coal mine at 3 Kilo Umrangso area in Assam's Dima ...

The Centre on Wednesday said it is the responsibility of state governments to stop all kinds of illegal coal mining, ...

Meghalaya mine collapse: What it's like to work in a 'rat-hole' mine Meghalaya mine: Families of trapped workers live in limbo Rat-hole mining involves digging pits into the ground to create a ...

A team of "rat-hole miners" – experts trained to work in extremely narrow, often hand-dug tunnels resembling rat burrows – joined the rescue mission on Monday. It marked a significant move as ...

AFP via Getty After over a month, the remaining five missing miners’ bodies were recovered from a flooded coal mine in ... the narrow hole. The hole was called a “rat hole” and was dug ...

Partially decomposed bodies of all miners were retrieved after several days from the rat-hole mine. Rai, in a reply to a separate query from AIUDF MLA Ashraful Hussain, said that the government ...

Ramgarh: District administration has initiated a major operation to demolish illegal and unsafe rat-hole mines in Ramgarh, working in coordination with the district mining department, forest ...

Asked about the Assam coal mine accident, where alleged rat-hole mining led to fatalities, Coal Minister Kishan Reddy told Lok Sabha, "It is the state government's responsibility to check." ...