In a strong enforcement drive against illegal mining and pollution violations, a District Level Task Force (DLTF) carried out a seizure and demolition operation targeting unauthorized brick kilns and illegal brick earth mining in the Gomaijhora area of Phulbari and Batabara in West Garo Hills.
The death toll in the Thangkso coal mine explosion in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya, has risen to 27, with the recovery of two more bodies from the site, according to the State Disaster Management Authority.
A deepening unemployment crisis and decades of stalled industrial development in Assam’s Barak Valley are forcing hundreds of young men to risk their lives in hazardous and often illegal coal mines across the border in Meghalaya.
The Office of the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Territorial Division, West and South-West Garo Hills, has launched a strict enforcement drive against unauthorised brick earth mining and illegal stone quarrying across several locations in the district.
The Forest Department on January 17 carried out a coordinated raid-cum-patrolling operation in parts of West Garo Hills, leading to the detection of illegal sand and earth mining and the seizure of timber and heavy machinery.
SHILLONG, DEC 8: The Meghalaya government has directed the district administration to verify unverified claims that three coal labourers were buried alive in a...
