The Assam government has set up a One-Man Inquiry Commission to investigate the Umrangso Mines tragedy, led by Justice Anima ...

A worker died after falling from a building at a Dalmia Cement Factory construction site at Umrangso in Assam's Dima Hasao ...

Tragic coal mine accident in Assam prompts crackdown on illegal mining operations, activists demand action from government.

Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah alleged that CM Himanta Biswa Sarma is behind the coal syndicate in the State.

At least four workers died after a coal mine was flooded with water in the industrial town of Umrangso in Dima Hasao on ...

On the morning of January 6, when Babul Chandra Das from Tezpur, saw the news on TV, about an accident in a rat-hole mine near Umrangso in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, he became anxious.

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 ...

A few days ago, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that about 220 rat-hole mines had been detected in the district’s Umrangso area bordering Meghalaya. Many of these were in operation ...

The Assam government is closing rat-hole coal mines after a tragedy in Dima Hasao trapped nine miners, with four bodies recovered and five still missing.

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 ...

He further said a survey was also conducted by the departments concerned at Umrangso, in Dima Hasao, where a sudden flooding of a 300 ft mine on January 6 left nine miners trapped inside.