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Supreme Court directs Centre to airlift Kirloskar pumps to Meghalaya to recover trapped miners’ bodies
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe Supreme Court issued a notice to the Centre, directing it to recover the bodies of miners trapped in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia hills district
Meghalaya minister says rescue ops for trapped miners will continue as per SC orders; no details of expenses yet
• 6 years agoMeghalaya home minister James K Sangma on Wednesday said the multi-agency operation to search for the remaining 13 miners trapped inside a 370-foot-deep coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district will continue, as per directions of the Supreme Court.
Army joins navy, NDRF in rescue ops to locate trapped miners in Meghalaya; murky water hampers effort to recover decomposed body
• 6 years agoThe Indian Army has joined Navy, NDRF in operations to search for miners trapped inside a coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district
Meghalaya tragedy: Navy, NDRF struggle to retrieve decomposed body of second miner found 300 feet inside coal mine
• 6 years agoThe Navy and the NDRF teams are struggling to retrieve the decomposed body of the second miner found deep inside the 370-foot-deep coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district
Meghalaya mine tragedy: Navy divers find second body 280 feet in rat hole, rescue efforts continue
• 6 years agoNavy divers on Saturday recovered a second body today from the flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya where over 13 workers remain trapped since 13 December, 2018.
Meghalaya mining tragedy: Indian Navy, NDRF retrieve body of one of 15 miners, over 40 days after they were trapped
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAt least 15 miners are trapped inside the mine in Meghalaya since 13 December, 2018 after one of them accidentally punctured the wall of the mine, leading to its flooding.
Operation to evacuate trapped Meghalaya miners not abandoned: Centre, state government tells Supreme Court
• 6 years agoThe Meghalaya government said it has filed a status report on the steps taken to rescue the miners.
Meghalaya mining accident: State may call off already disastrous rescue operation after consulting experts at site
Uriah • 6 years agoWith the detection of the first body inside the 320-feet-deep illegal rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, the families of the 15 workers trapped inside the quarry are prepared for the worst.
Meghalaya govt-coal mafia nexus aids illegal mining, decimates state's ecology, says activists' report submitted to Supreme Court
Syeda Ambia Zahan • 6 years agoIllegal coal mining in Meghalaya has dispossessed 76 percent of the local tribal population of their land, resulting in large-scale migration of the tribal poor to the urban centres of Shillong and Tura, the report says, adding that this was the major reason for inequality of wealth in the state.
Month after Meghalaya mine tragedy, NGT committee asks state police to investigate 1,200 cases of illegal mining
• 6 years agoThe Meghalaya police have been told by the NGT that their probe should reach a logical conclusion after taking into account all 1200 cases of illegal rat-hole mining in East Garo Hills, South-West Khasi Hills and West and East Jaintia Hills districts.