Banned rat-hole mining in East Jaintia Hills, where a blast killed 31, is a low-investment, high-profit model. A 10-year ban hasn't budged it—'They won't get such money anywhere else.'
Two arrests have been made in the case. Accountability would be fixed, and an independent or central agency probe could be ordered if required, the high court has said.
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.
Two SDRF teams, three NDRF teams, a special rescue team, along with BSF, Army and IAF personnel are on standby to airlift workers from the site where an explosion occurred Thursday.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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