Guwahati: A seven-day deadline was issued to all stakeholders, including the mining department, Coal India, forest department and district administrat.

The Assam government is closing rat-hole coal mines after a tragedy in Dima Hasao trapped nine miners, with four bodies recovered and five still missing.

Jorhat MP Gaurav Gogoi has called for the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the tragic coal mine collapse in Dima Hasao, Assam. The incident, which occurred on January 6 ...

At least four workers died after a coal mine was flooded with water in the industrial town of Umrangso in Dima Hasao on ...

The gunfight broke out at around 9 am in a forest of south Bijapur when a joint team of security personnel was out an ...

The Assam government is carrying out an operation to close rat-hole coal mines in the state, following the tragedy in the Dima Hasao district, officials said on Thursday. At least nine labourers were ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], January 12 (ANI): Congress Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, for the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT ...

The report submitted in 2021 by the one-man judicial commission, led by Justice Brojendra Prasad Katakey, which was investigating allegations of illegal mining in Assam's Digboi forest division ...

Rat-hole mining below 5 hectares is strictly prohibited by the National Green Tribunal (NGT). However, there is no clarity on ...

Haflong: The District Congress Committee in Dima Hasao, Assam, has strongly objected to the concept of ‘Deemed Forest’, urging the NC Hills Autonomous Council to reconsider the provision. The ‘Deemed ...