Navy divers have been withdrawn from rescue operations at a coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district with the hope of survival of five trapped labourers appearing to be slim even as dewatering exercise entered the ninth day on Tuesday (January 14, 2025), officials said. Dewatering of the quarry, which is 340 feet deep, continued […]
The Centre has agreed in principle to executive, legislative, and financial autonomy for the Frontier Nagaland Territory (FNT), an administrative area proposed to be carved out of six eastern districts of Nagaland, the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) has said. The ENPO, an apex organisation representing seven Naga tribes, has been spearheading the demand for […]
Persistently high levels of water affected the ninth day of operation on Wednesday (January 15, 2025) to find the five miners trapped in the water-filled rat-hole mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district since January 6. The personnel of multiple agencies, including the Indian Navy, Army, and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) retrieved the bodies […]
GUWAHATI The World Economic Forum (WEF) has designated an eastern Assam plant of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) as an advanced fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) end-to-end (E2E) value chain ‘Lighthouse’. The factory in Tinsukia district’s Doom Dooma has become Uniliver’s third in South Asia to receive the honour for adopting 4IR technologies, including artificial intelligence, automation, […]
The Assam government has detected 220 rat-hole coal mines in the Dima Hasao district’s Umrangso area, including the ill-fated one where nine miners were trapped on January 6. The State government has also ordered a judicial probe into the mishap that has claimed the lives of four of the missing miners, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa […]
Lok Sabha member Dilip Saikia has become the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Assam unit president a little more than a year ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. Mr. Saikia, 51, filed his nomination on Thursday (January 16, 2025) evening in the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, observers Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Sambit Patra, […]
Rajib Barman, 39, had heard that the job of a rat-hole miner was hazardous, but he chose to do it because he had a debt of ₹60,000 to pay off. A resident of Sitlabazar village in western Assam’s Kokrajhar district, Barman decided to work at the Kalamati mine in the Umrangso area of Dima Hasao […]
“In yet another success in its crusade against smuggling activities, Assam Rifles, in a joint operation with the Mizoram Police, recovered narcotics ‘Heroin’ worth ₹34.50 lakh in Champhai district of Mizoram,” according to an official press release. The consignment weighing 46 gram was recovered in the general area of PVCP Melbuk Road Junction, Champhai district, […]
GUWAHATI The police and local authorities in Assam’s Dima Hasao district have initiated a drive to seal all the rat holes and seize all mining equipment at the mine sites. The drive is in connection with the flooding of a 90-metre-deep rat-hole coal mine on January 6, trapping nine miners. The bodies of four miners […]
Guwahati, Jan 20: Assam Police in Cachar district seized a large quantity of narcotics worth Rs 1 crore and arrested one person in a significant operation on Sunday. The operation, conducted at the Digharkhal Toll Gate under Kalain police station, was based on intelligence inputs regarding illegal drug transportation. Police intercepted a vehicle (registration number […]
