The police and local authorities in Assam’s Dima Hasao district have initiated a drive to seal all the rat holes and seize all mining equipment at the mine sites. The drive is in connection with ...

Guwahati: After Margherita the Asaam Police launched crackdown operation at Umrangso in Dima Hasao district in Assam against illegal rat hole mining on Saturday night. The number of arrests in the ...

The Assam government is carrying out an operation to close rat-hole coal mines in the state, following the tragedy in the Dima Hasao district, officials said on Thursday. At least nine labourers were ...

Water flooded a rat-hole mine in the Dima Hasao district of Assam ... As these mines were illegal, we don’t have any maps or blueprints to help us.” People working in other mines nearby have come to ...

Following a tragedy in Dima Hasao, the Assam government is intensifying efforts to close illegal rat-hole coal mines. Despite a 2014 ban by the National Green Tribunal, these dangerous mining ...