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Topic: Meghalaya

Indian Navy divers to join operation at Meghalaya flooded mine

A 15-member diving team will reach the site in East Jaintia Hills district Saturday morning.

Missing officials & missing pumps delay rescue of Meghalaya miners

NDRF official says water inside mine is over 70 feet and divers can’t do much unless level comes down. State human rights commission orders inquiry. 

Indians prayed for Thai cave rescue, but why no outrage for Meghalaya’s trapped miners?

Rescue workers have been trying to reach the coal miners trapped in east Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya since 13 December. The rescue team has...

No one is bothered because we are poor, say families of trapped Meghalaya miners

It has been over a week since waters from a river flooded an illegal Meghalaya mine, trapping at least 15 people inside.

15 feared dead in coal mine: Come to Meghalaya to see just how ineffective NGT ban can be

Coal mining is said to be a big revenue generator for Meghalaya, where the collapse of an illegal mine this month left 15 people feared dead.

13 trapped in Meghalaya coal mine feared dead as rescue efforts over 5 days remain futile

5 days on, Meghalaya's effort to trace trapped miners fails to yield results 13 miners are reportedly trapped in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district.

Meghalaya HC judge does about-turn on ‘Hindu nation’ after CPI(M) threatens impeachment

Justice S.R. Sen says secularism is one of Indian Constitution's basic structure – after CPI(M) said it was considering impeaching him.

Governor Tathagata Roy targets Gandhi, blames Nehru for Bengal’s high Muslim population

During an interview on Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Tathagata Roy claims Gandhi conspired against Netaji, says Nehru-Liaquat pact ‘bordered on stupidity’.

Senior Meghalaya police official says state emerging as heroin distribution centre

Davis Marak says many players are involved in the drug trafficking in Meghalaya, with Shillong as the transit point.

When the marginalised strike back: Lessons to learn from Shillong

Fake news, lack of decisive police action and breakdown of local institutions led to the Shillong incident. The city can ignore all this and its minorities at its peril

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

As IDF unveils robotic combat task force, Israeli maker says open to working with India

Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.