SHILLONG: In a major man-made disaster, at least 16 labourers were killed in a dynamite explosion in an “illegal” coal mine ...

Banned rat-hole mining in East Jaintia Hills, where a blast killed 31, is a low-investment, high-profit model. A 10-year ban ...

Fatal Incident at Illegal Coal Mine Shillong, Feb 5: A devastating dynamite explosion at an unauthorized coal mining site in ...

Fire was a perennial danger for new mining communities in the Tri-State District as mining camps made the transition from tent cities to frame buildings. I have written of devastating fires that hit ...

Rescue operations are on as more people are feared trapped inside the mine, police say.

After a dynamite explosion at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya killed 18 people and injured at least one, on Thursday, Chief ...

The Meghalaya government on Friday said that the toll in the blast at an illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district ...

At least four labourers lost their lives and another was critically injured after a powerful explosion rocked a suspected ...

The blast, believed to have been triggered by dynamite inside the unauthorised pit in the remote Thangsku area of Mynsngat village, had initially been described as one of the most severe mining ...

At least 16 miners were confirmed dead and one was seriously injured on Thursday, in one of Meghalaya''s deadliest illegal ...

Shillong: Meghalaya Police has constituted an SIT to probe the dynamite explosion in an illegal coal mine that claimed 31 lives in East Jaintia Hills .