Meanwhile, officials suggest the accident may have occurred after the workers accidentally struck a water source while mining ...

In India, 24 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced due to severe flooding in the eastern state of Assam. Heavy rains submerged several villages, forcing locals to seek shelter in ...

Rescuers have spotted three bodies but have not yet recovered them, the local government said in a statement, a day after the nine miners were trapped by heavy flooding that police said was likely ...

H Islam said he arrived in Umrangso to work in the Assam Coal Quarry ... shift on Monday when the flooding occurred. He recounted hearing a gush of water and people shouting for help.

As the water rose rapidly, people clung to whatever they could find: the wall, the pipe of the water pumping machine, and the ...

Three miners are feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India’s northeastern Assam state, authorities said on Tuesday, as rescue teams worked through the night to try to ...

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters that chances of finding survivors were very slim as it has been over 10 days since the coal mine was flooded The Assam Cabinet on Thursday ...

Several miners are feared trapped inside a coal mine in a remote area in the northeast Indian state of Assam, and the state ...

PASIGHAT-On illegal encroachments by Assam people and their cattle inside the D. Ering Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh ...

Meanwhile, Dima Hasao Superintendent of Police (SP) Mayank Kumar Jha said that several people were feared trapped inside the coal mine in Umrangshu of Assam's Dima Hasao district. "Several people ...