Tragic coal mine accident in Assam prompts crackdown on illegal mining operations, activists demand action from government.

The Assam government has launched an extensive operation to shut down illegal rat-hole coal mines across the state following a tragic incident in Dima Hasao district.

Following a tragedy in Dima Hasao, the Assam government is intensifying efforts to close illegal rat-hole coal mines. Despite a 2014 ban by the National Green Tribunal, these dangerous mining ...

According to data accessed by The Indian Express, 173 such illegal mines have been dismantled in land leased by Coal India Limited and on revenue, while another 61 mines have been have been dismantled ...

The bus lost control at a sharp turn and fell into a field near a cement factory in the Umrangso area of Dima Hasao in the ...

In Assam's Dima Hasao district, rescue operations continue following a tragic coal mine flooding. Nine workers were trapped, ...

Haflong (Assam), Jan 18: A Class-3 student was killed and several others injured after a school bus overturned in Assam’s ...

Five people were arrested by police in connection with the death workers at a coal mining site at Umrangso in Assam's Dima ...

Miners desperate for money risk working at rat-hole mines, which are still in operation in the North East despite curbs and a ban in Meghalaya.

The search and rescue operations to locate five workers who remain trapped inside the inundated rat-hole coal mine at 3 Kilo ...

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 ...

Congress Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday for the formation of a Special ...