"In continuation of HADR efforts to provide relief and succour in Assam and Meghalaya, IAF has airlifted 96 Ton of relief material on 25 Ju...

An Army team comprising about 20-25 members has been deployed to support the Navy.

The first body, of Amir Hussain from Assam's Chirang district, spotted in the mine was handed over to the family members Saturday morning.

Sangma said the government is seeking advice and suggestions from the medical department, the Navy, administration and forensic department ...

The bench sought to know from the state's counsel as to whether any action had been taken against those indulging in illegal mining activit...

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, informed a bench of justices A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer about the steps taken fo...

"For people who are trapped there, every minute counts," the court said and suggested that the help of the Army could be also taken.

The miners have been trapped for the last 16 days in a socalled rat hole mine, the type of which dot the terrain despite a top court-impose...

While one team carried out dewatering exercise of 370-foot-deep rat-hole coal mine, Navy drivers went inside the mine to gauge the depth.

The miners have been trapped in the mine in the Ksan area of Lumthari village in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district since December 13,...

A senior official in state government told ET, “The team has visited the area and will launch operation on Sunday.”

Meghalaya government has requested CIL to assist in search and rescue operation.

In a sharp attack against Modi, the Congress chief said 15 labourers trapped in the mine in Meghalaya since December 13 struggled for air w...

Asking Modi to "please save the miners", Gandhi alleged the government was not organising high-pressure pumps needed for rescue operations.

Narendra Modi was in Assam on Tuesday to inaugurate India’s longest road-cum-rail bridge Bogibeel Bridge in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh.

Assam has been reeling under severe floods for the past one week due to heavy rainfall in the upper catchment areas of Arunachal Pradesh an...

Torrential rains for the last couple of days in north eastern parts of the country have resulted in flooding in several districts of Assam.