Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
ALWAR: Just a few days after the Supreme Court issued notices to the state government over illegal mining in Alwar, a man was killed and another injured at an illegal mine Narayanpur area in the district on Tuesday. Initially the police were saying that the victims were involved in illegal …
The bodies of five miners have been removed from a mine that collapsed last Sunday in Northeast China's Liaoning province, bringing the death toll to nine, local authorities said Wednesday. Twelve miners were working in a newly-dug shaft in the Qingshui No 2 Mine, located in the provincial capital of …
Around 60 miners trapped underground on Tuesday after an accident and fire at Zimbabwe's Mimosa platinum mine have been brought back to the surface without injury, the company said. "All employees have now been safely evacuated from the mine. No injuries have been reported," said a statement from Mimosa, which …
About sixty miners were trapped at Zimbabwe's Mimosa mine following an accident on Monday evening, the president of the local miner workers union said. "There are 85 people who were trapped at 5:30 pm yesterday but more than 20 have been rescued so far. A bearing which moves the conveyer …
Seven people remain trapped underground following a coal mine accident in Southwest China's Yunnan province, local authorities said Tuesday. A total of 10 people, including the coal mine's manager, a safety inspector and eight workers, became trapped after a coal mine shaft caved in Monday afternoon at a coal mine …
Mining in Aravalli continues unabated despite a Supreme Court ban on it. The consequent price in terms of human casualty is huge - on Thursday, at least 10 labourers were feared killed when a stone mine collapsed due to blasting in the forest land near Bhiwadi in Rajasthan's Alwar district. …
Nine coal miners were killed and 16 injured in a blast at a colliery in northern China on Monday, state media said, the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry in the country. Four people were killed on the spot when the explosion rocked the mine in Bayannur city, …
Dhanbad/Bokaro, April 18: Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal today held the state government responsible for the delay in relocation of people from fire-affected areas in Jharia, arguing the Centre had poured sufficient funds into the rehabilitation plan. “The Union government can offer money, technical expertise and even lay out a …
At least 15 miners were killed in two mine floods in China over the weekend, as rescuers frantically pumped mining shafts in search of seven still missing in the accidents, state press said yesterday. The death toll in a flood that occurred early yesterday at the illegally operating Shanfu coal …
State’s Tall Claims To Check Illegal Practices Fall Flat Once Again Alwar: Two labourers were buried alive in an illegal mine after stones came crashing on them during an explosion in Alwar’s Tapukara police station area on Tuesday night. As the police and rescue workers could not take the bodies …
Peruvian miners trapped for six days in an abandoned copper mine prayed, told each other jokes and even danced in an attempt to hold onto hope, before they finally were freed Wednesday. The miners, above, ranging in age from 23 to 58, walked out, unaided, from a reinforced tunnel that …
The former chief of security for the Upper Big Branch mine, where 29 miners died in an explosion in 2010, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. The official, Hughie Elbert Stover, 60, was convicted in October of lying to federal officials and obstructing the investigation into the explosion …
Sources said at least four coalminers were killed when toxic gas accumulated in a coalmine, causing an explosion in the Chamalang area of Balochistan. Coalmine sources said that four labourers working inside the coalmine died as lethal gas that had accumulated in the mine caused a huge explosion. The victims …
Fifteen miners died and another three were injured after a tramcar derailed in a coal mine in central China, authorities said Thursday, in the latest accident to hit the nation's mining sector. The accident occured at a pit near Leiyang city in Hunan province in the early hours of Thursday …
Fifteen miners died and another three were injured when a tramcar derailed in a coal mine in central China, authorities said yesterday , in the latest accident to hit the dangerous industry. The incident happened at a pit near Leiyang city in Hunan province in the early hours of Thursday …
Chandrapura (Bokaro), Feb. 7: Five women — all illegal miners — were buried alive when the roof of a 15ft deep coal pit collapsed on them near Chandrapura junction, 35km from Bokaro steel city, this noon. Two others were injured in the incident. That the mishap took place at Jhungurghuttu, …
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister of Higher Education Qazi Muhammad Asad distributed cheques worth Rs 100,00 to the families of the men who were killed a fortnight ago in a phosphate mine collapse in the village of Tarnawi. Addressing a meeting held during the distribution ceremony, the minister said that no one will …
A gas explosion in a southwest China coal mine Friday killed 11 workers and injured six others, state press said in the latest accident to hit the nation’s dangerous mining industry. One worker remained missing after the explosion ripped through the Diaoyutai coal mine in Sichuan province Friday afternoon, Xinhua …
Affected villagers of Barapukuria coal mine area at Phulbari in Dinajpur postponed on Thursday night their hunger strike till January 30. More than five hundreds people of 10 affected villages around Barapukuria under Jibon O Sampod Raksha Committee began their hunger strike till death in the coal mine area on …
At least four people were killed and 12 others injured in a coal mine explosion in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province. The accident occurred last night in Xunsi township of Junlian County in Yibin city, causing a three-storey house to collapse, local officials said. The 12 injured have been hospitalised for …
