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'Rescued 41, in return got this': DDA demolishes house of rat-hole miner who saved 41 from collapsed Uttarkashi tunnelThe Delhi Development Authority (DDA) demolished the home of rat-hole miner Wakeel Hassan in Khajoori Khas village during a planned develop...
Uttarkashi Tunnel: How Jhansi rat miners rescued workers after high-tech American machine failedA group of skilled miners from Uttar Pradesh joined the rescue operation to save 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkash...
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Anand Mahindra all praise for 'humble rathole miners'On November 27, two teams of seven and five men who are experts in the technique of rat-hole mining were called in by two private companies...
Silkyara tunnel collapse: After modern machinery fails, controversial rat-hole mining comes to the rescueRescuers in Uttarakhand are employing the controversial rat-hole mining technique to extract 41 trapped labourers after modern machinery fa...
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Rescuers within five metres of reaching 41 trapped workersRescuers have also started to create a vertical channel with a newly replaced drilling machine, officials said. They drilled horizontally f...
Six labourers feared trapped inside a rat-hole coal mine in MeghalayaMeghalaya police in a statement stated based on information received from Superintendent of Police, Silchar about six mine workers being tr...
SC asks Meghalaya to deposit Rs 100 cr fine for illegal coal miningThe bench allowed the mining operation to go on in the state on the privately and community owned land subject to the permissions from the ...
Meghalaya mining mishap: No decision yet on calling off rescue operations: CM Conard SangmaSangma said the government is seeking advice and suggestions from the medical department, the Navy, administration and forensic department ...
When rat hole mining offers the only job opportunityThe six-party-led state government is in favour of an exemption for Meghalaya from the federal laws on mining.
No blueprint of illegal mine; Centre facing difficulties in rescuing 15 miners: SC toldSolicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, informed a bench of justices A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer about the steps taken fo...
Rat-hole: The dark side of coal mining in MeghalayaThe size of rat-holes are such that only children can work and adults cannot enter the pits.
Navy divers start operation to rescue the 15 trapped miners in MeghalayaWhile one team carried out dewatering exercise of 370-foot-deep rat-hole coal mine, Navy drivers went inside the mine to gauge the depth.
Mine mishap: Rescue operations to resume with use of sophisticated equipmentThe miners have been trapped in the mine in the Ksan area of Lumthari village in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district since December 13,...
Rat-hole mining rampant in Meghalaya despite NGT banFour years after the National Green Tribunal ordered a ban on coal mining in Meghalaya, illegal practices continue unabated in the state, p...
372 candidates in the fray for Meghalaya assembly pollsRegional parties including National People's Party (NPP) have emerged as strong contenders to challenge Congress.
- Meghalaya introduces mining policy, silent on rat-hole mining
Meghalaya cabinet gave nod to the mining policy even as it ruled out doing away with rat-hole mining, which is facing opposition.
- Fifteen miners trapped in rat hole mine in Meghalaya
No trace of 15 miners who were trapped near Nangalbibra area of South Garo Hills district in Meghalaya.