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TopicMeghalaya miners

Topic: Meghalaya miners

Another year, another mining tragedy — why Meghalaya’s ‘rat holes’ won’t stop killing

Karishma Hasnat -
Two years after 15 miners were killed at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya, six others lost their lives in another accident at another mine in January.

No miracle in 7 months, rescue team in search of Meghalaya miners wraps up mission

Nandita Singh -
SC last week allowed Meghalaya govt to call off operation to retrieve what remained of the bodies of 13 coal miners trapped in a flooded coal mine.

On mood of the nation, India Today and Republic finally agree

Simrin Sirur -
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The unemployment wave, and failed lotuses in Karnataka

Simrin Sirur -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Several skeletons found in Meghalaya’s illegal rat-hole mine 35 days after tragedy

Moushumi Das Gupta -
The Navy rescue team detected the first body at a depth of 160 feet, more than a month after 15 miners were trapped on 13 December. 

NGT panel blames ‘un-abetted illegal mining’ for Meghalaya tragedy

Moushumi Das Gupta -
The NGT report finds that a blasé Meghalaya government looked the other way when illegal mining was going on in several East Jaintia Hills areas.

For Navy divers, it’s a difficult & dangerous search for survivors in Meghalaya coal mine

Ritika Jain -
A Navy diver, who is a part of the rescue operation in Meghalaya's rat-hole coal mine, tells ThePrint about the problems being faced by the team.

These are the 15 Meghalaya miners trapped in a rat-hole coal mine

ThePrint Team -
The district police have released the list of names of the 15 Meghalaya coal miners trapped in a rat-hole mine in East Jaintia Hills. 

The NGT had slammed coal mafia while banning rat-hole mining in Meghalaya

Ritika Jain -
The NGT ban on rat-hole mining had come on petitions that warned of the exact same scenario that left 15 miners trapped this month.

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Opinion

Iran and Israel weren’t always enemies. In fact, they were allies

Swasti Rao -
Israel even helped source American defence equipment for Iran, who learnt from Tel Aviv about drones against Soviet air defences in Syria.

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Economy

Telangana’s Rs 3.24 lakh crore budget bets on rural push, welfare and infra ahead of GHMC polls

Deepika Amirapu -
With eye on rural votebank, Telangana budget raises allocations for farmers, power & welfare schemes, while introducing new initiatives and relying on borrowings to fund growth.

Defence

Tracked: How a sailor’s 35-minute workout on deck gave away exact location of French aircraft carrier

Vaibhav Pant -
A fitness run logged on a Strava‑linked watch by a French sailor has revealed the movement of nuclear‑powered Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
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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