Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

Water flooded a rat-hole mine in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, earlier this month, trapping several miners inside. The abandoned coal mine was illegally operated without safety protocols. Attempts ...

The drive is in connection with the flooding of a 90-metre-deep rat-hole coal mine on January 6, trapping nine miners. The bodies of four miners were retrieved by January 10 but five others remain ...

Assam Minister Kaushik Rai distributed ex-gratia cheques to the families of nine individuals who died or are trapped in a coal mine accident in Dima Hasao ... Families of the other five persons who ...

GUWAHATI, Jan 19: Assam Mines and Minerals Minister Kaushik Rai on Saturday distributed Rs 10 Lakh ex-gratia to the next of kin of the four deceased who lost their lives at the coal mine incident at ...

Dibrugarh: DGP GP Singh on Sunday said that all rat hole mining operations in Assam ... to the knowledge of the CM that illegal mining operations were ongoing in the state. “Following this, a meeting ...

The Assam government has detected 220 rat-hole coal mines in the Dima Hasao district’s Umrangso area, including the ill-fated one where nine miners were trapped on January 6. The State ...