Forty-two days after nine miners went missing in a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, rescue teams recovered the last five bodies on Wednesday, bringing a tragic end to the Umrangso coal mine disaster.
The Gauhati High Court has initiated a suo motu case concerning the rampant illegal rat-hole coal mining operations in Assam’s Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong districts. The court has requested a detailed response from the Assam government regarding the measures taken to curb these unlawful mining activities.
A 9-year-old girl was killed and 15 others were injured two of them critically when a bus carrying 25 school children veered off the road in Assam's Dima Hasao district on Saturday morning.
The Assam government will enlist the assistance of ISRO and foreign satellite agencies to procure time-lapse images of 220 coal mines in Umrangso, Dima Hasao district, for an in-depth investigation.
