At least 16 labourers from Assam were killed in a suspected illegal coal mine explosion in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills.

Sixteen people were killed in a suspected illegal coal mine explosion in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills. Assam CM Himanta ...

The National Green Tribunal had banned rat-hole coal mining and other unscientific practices in Meghalaya in 2014 due to ...

Shillong: Several labourers were feared trapped following an explosion at a suspected illegal coal mine in Meghalaya’s East ...

Meghalaya Minister Lahkmen Rymbui said that two individuals were detained during the active probe into the tragedy ...

Editor, The recent dynamite blast in an illegal rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills on February 5 has claimed at least 25 lives, with rescue efforts still under way to pull out ...

Search and rescue personnel have finished recovering the bodies of miners trapped in an informal coal mine after a methane gas explosion ...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — An explosion ripped through an illegal coal mine in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya on Thursday, killing at least 18 workers and injuring another, authorities said.

More than 220 people were killed in two successive landslides on Jan. 28 and 29 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The victims were artisanal miners known as “diggers.” The accident occurred at ...

Mexican authorities say that five of the 10 missing workers from a mine operated by a Canadian company in the northwestern state of Sinaloa have been identified among 10 bodies found in clandestine ...