Days after a blast at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya killed 27, families from Nepal and India are still searching hospitals for bodies and injured relatives—caught between grief, poverty and desperation.
It has been three days since blast in Thangsko region of East Jaintia Hills. While 27 mine workers are dead, nine are in hospital and more bodies are believed buried in illegal mines.
As rescue teams dig into tunnels, over 100 temporary houses in area lie empty with most labourers fleeing. Only the family members of those trapped inside remain.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Haryana chief secretary to submit an affidavit with measures to redress 'environmental plundering' of Charkhi Dadri district.
The Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee observed in 2018 that 25 per cent of Rajasthan’s Aravallis had been lost to illegal mining and stone crushing.
New Delhi: There have been 27,693 reported cases of illegal mining, transportation, and stocking in the Aravallis in Rajasthan since 2020; however just 3,199...
SC-appointed Central Empowered Committee rebutted official’s assertions and questioned his silence on role of other district officers who didn't take action when road was being built.
Mines dept secretary has ordered geospatial assessment of all mining areas and asked for a probe. It is alleged that ‘illegally mined hill would cost state exchequer over Rs 20,000 cr’.
Chaudhary's political career has been marked by accusations & legal battles. It also highlights a deeply intertwined business-politics nexus in Himachal's Doon-Baddi region.
An oil shock, monsoon fears, rampant unemployment, and the seeming inevitability of inflation are common to both eras. Indira Gandhi’s self-destructive responses are instructive today.
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