Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has been lobbying New Delhi to lift a ban on dangerous, small-scale coal mining operations in his state, without disclosing that his wife owns several mines ...

Meghalaya secures historic approval for scientific coal mining in partnership with the Ministry of Coal. CM Conrad Sangma hails this as a monumental achievement, paving the way for expanding ...

Faced with Byrnihat’s severe air quality, the Meghalaya government shut down a handful of factories which were thought to be the main drivers of pollution. But the Central Pollution Control Board ...

The whole area around Gasaupara village is spoiled due to coal dumps (on any open space), movement of trucks, pollution of water bodies, noise, and black exhaust by rickety old trucks." The Standing ...

December 26, 2018 Follow Saudigazette on GUWAHATI, India Indian rescue workers were trying to reach 15 coal miners trapped underground for 13 days on Wednesday as families prayed for their safe ...

Indian rescuers trying to reach a group of miners trapped in a remote and illegal "rat-hole" coal mine are struggling to pump out water from the 370-foot-deep pit, further dimming their chances of ...

The two men were likely hit by boulders as they tried to extract coal while digging narrow tunnels on the slopes of a hill in mineral-rich Meghalaya state on Friday, police said. An “enquiry is ...