SHILLONG, Feb 10: Meghalaya Trinamool Congress president Charles Pyngrope on Tuesday strongly urged the state government to stop denying the existence of illegal coal mining and take immediate, ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT)’s principal bench Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of media reports on the blast in the alleged illegally operated rat-hole mine in Thangkso, East Jaintia Hills ...

SHILLONG, Feb 9: The death toll in the dynamite explosion at the Mynsyngat–Thangsko area of East Jaintia Hills district has risen to 30, with three more workers succumbing to their injuries on Monday.

Thirty people so far have been found dead after an explosion at an illegal coal mine on February 5, in the East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya, resurfacing concerns over unsafe, unregulated ...