The Assam government on Thursday announced a judicial enquiry and a police Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the Umrangso coal mine incident, in which nine workers were trapped with ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

The labourers were on Monday trapped inside the coal mine situated in the 3 Kilo area of Umrangso, after a sudden gush of water flooded the site. Divers entered the flooded pit in a coal mine ...

“The mine got flooded yesterday – the source was internal. They probably hit some water channel and water came out and flooded it,” said Mayank Kumar, district police chief in Dima Hasao.

The Kombat copper mine will close its gates today at 16:00, suspending all operations for at least the next nine months. Yesterday, around 580 mineworkers received ...

A body was recovered and eight other people are still trapped after water gushed into a 340-foot deep 'rat-hole' mine in Assam and flooded it on Monday.

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In Guwahati, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the mine was earlier run by the state’s mines and minerals department but was abandoned 12 years ago, calling Monday’s mining operation “illegal”.