Guwahati: Assam govt has taken several steps, including drone surveillance, imposition of restrictions under relevant laws, ...

The Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest, Kirti Vardhan Singh, admitted in Lok Sabha that rat-hole mining is illegal.

The court asked all the respondents to file the latest status report regarding action taken by the state government to stop ...

This came as part of a suo motu public interest litigation prompted by the recent deaths of miners in Dima Hasao district.

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

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 ... in Assam's Digboi forest division.

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

While authorities in Dima Hasao began this work last week ... All the stakeholders – the mining department, the district administration, police administration, the forest department, Coal India ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gauhati High Court has issued notices to the Assam government and its various departments over rampant rat-hole coal mining and asked them to furnish what steps they have taken to stop the ...