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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At least eighteen people lost their lives and one got injured after an explosion occurred Thursday (Feb 5) at around 11am at ...

At least 18 people died on Thursday after an explosion ripped through an illegal coal mine in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, officials said. “During the course of the rescue operation, a ...

An explosion at an illegally-operated coal mine in India's northeastern state of Meghalaya has claimed at least 18 ...