The Gauhati High Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the rampant illegal rat-hole mining in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, particularly...

The Assam government has set up a One-Man Inquiry Commission to investigate the Umrangso Mines tragedy, led by Justice Anima Hazarika. This...

Assam Minister Kaushik Rai distributed ex-gratia cheques to the families of nine individuals who died or are trapped in a coal mine acciden...

Assam government has announced a judicial inquiry into the Tin Kilo coal mine tragedy to establish accountability. A Special Investigation ...

Navy divers have been withdrawn from rescue operations at a flooded coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district, where hope of survival for th...

The bodies of three trapped workers were recovered from a coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, raising the total to four. Rescue opera...

Rescue operations continue in Assam's Dima Hasao district where two bodies of trapped workers have been recovered so far from a flooded coa...

The High Court in its order pointed out that tens of crores of rupees in revenue have been lost to the state, at least from 2018 to 2021, t...

The court has asked to constitute a committee free from political interference be constitute to monitor the execution of Supreme Court and ...

The bodies were recovered almost a month after 15 miners were reported trapped in another illegal coal mine located about 40 km away at Khl...

The size of rat-holes are such that only children can work and adults cannot enter the pits.

The 64 people missing after a landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province were presumed dead today, after rescuers failed to detect lif...

At least 99 people were killed and over 88 injured in a night club inferno and two separate coal mine accidents in China, police said today.

The operators of a Utah mine at the center of a collapse that led to nine fatalities last August have been fined 1.6 million dollars, healt...

Kazakh authorities investigating the death of 30 miners working for steel giant ArcelorMittal today harshly criticised security measures at...

An accidental blast at coal mines in Kazakhstan and Ukraine killed at least 53 people.

Several dead workers were pulled from a coal mine in Jharkhand and there was “little hope” for about 50 miners trapped underground, officia...