Police, he said, are also flying drones over Fulhar and some other rivers which flow through Malda. “A number of vehicles have been seized for carrying sand and soil which were taken out from r...

Three persons were feared dead and several others injured when a mine roof collapsed at an illegal mining site of Kaparsa Colliery of Eastern Coalfields Limited in Nirsa block of Dhanbad on Monday nig...

Hundreds of CPM leaders hit the streets on Tuesday to protest a police complaint filed against party veteran Jibesh Sarkar, alleging his involvement in shady land deals. “Each resident of Silig...

Specific instructions from chief minister Mamata Banerjee to prevent illegal mining of minor minerals like sand, stone and pebbles from the riverbeds of Darjeeling district and north Bengal as a whole...

A day after the subsidence incident at an illegal mining site in the Dumrijor area of Nirsa block of Dhanbad, rescue work was completed this afternoon with the removal of all debris from the incident ...

The illegal mining issue rocked the ongoing budget session of the Jharkhand Assembly on Tuesday. Independent MLA from Jamshedpur East, Saryu Roy, raised the issue of granting consent to operate (CTO)...

A deputy commissioner of a district in Jharkhand has admitted before the eastern zone bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) that illegal mining has taken place in Dhajwa Pahad (hills) as people&rsquo...

Two persons were killed during illegal mining in Kapasara colliery area of Nirsa Block of Dhanbad this morning. The incident during which one person was also seriously injured took place due to roof c...

Jharkhand has been making headlines for its illegal stone mining for a long time now.  After the allegations of illegal stone mining in Dhajwa were raised by the villagers, circle officer Pandu ...

The death toll in the mines mishap at Nirsa rose to five after the completion of rescue work. Cops also constituted a special investigating team led by Rural SP Reshma Rameshan to probe the incid...