Rescue operations are on as more people are feared trapped inside the mine, police say.

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — An explosion ripped through an illegal coal mine in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya on ...

At least 18 labourers were killed on Thursday morning in a suspected dynamite explosion at an illegal coal mine in ...

Union Minister G Kishan Reddy holds the Meghalaya state government responsible for stopping illegal coal mining following a fatal accident. He confirmed no official government mines operate in the ...

At least 18 miners have died after an explosion at an illegally-operated coal mine in northeastern India, police said.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Friday said his government would take stringent action against those responsible ...

A devastating explosion at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya, India, resulted in at least 16 fatalities and several injuries. Rescue efforts are challenged by the mine's remote location, and inquiries ...

At least four labourers lost their lives and another was critically injured after a powerful explosion rocked a suspected ...

Justice (Retd.) BP Katakey, who on Friday visited the site of mine explosion that claimed 18 lives, said more such incidents may occur in East Jaintia Hills if the authorities are not willing to stop ...

Union Minister for Coal and Mines, G. Kishan Reddy on Friday said the fatal explosion in East Jaintia Hills occurred in an illegal coal mine and not in any Government of India mine. Reddy expressed ...

Another young laborer from Shangla's Lilonai area lost his life while working in a coal mine, sparking waves of grief and outrage in the area. Abdul Rehman, a resident of Shangla, died after toxic gas ...

KUNMING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-one civil servants face punishment for a 2024 coal mine accident that killed six people in southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to the provincial mine ...