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J-K: Army JCO, 3 soldiers injured in accidental mine blast along LoC in Rajouri

Operation Sheruwali is still ongoing in the dense Dorimal forests of the Gambir Mughlan area in the Rajouri district.
Updated on Jun 17, 2026 03:36 pm IST

Days after deadly Shanxi blast, mine collapse in China kills 5

The latest collapse also follows a national safety meeting chaired by Premier Li Qiang on Saturday.
Published on May 31, 2026 04:15 pm IST

Hormuz opening likely delayed as Iran not able to locate own sea mines: Report

A cargo ship in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance
Updated on Apr 11, 2026 08:59 pm IST

Iran’s sea mines explained: How deadly are they for ships in Strait of Hormuz

A Thai-flagged cargo vessel was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. (Reuters)
Updated on Mar 12, 2026 07:39 pm IST

UP mine collapse: Nine workers still trapped, 3 dead in Sonbhadra | Top points

Search and rescue operations for the other workers are underway in Sonbhadra.
Published on Nov 16, 2025 06:27 pm IST

Mineral recycling scheme: A long overdue fix

Minerals (Official image.)
Updated on Oct 29, 2025 02:40 pm IST

India, Africa and critical minerals: Towards a green energy partnership

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Published on Mar 31, 2025 06:35 pm IST

Twelve rescued from Colorado gold mine after elevator malfunction, one dead

Emergency personnel stage outside the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colo., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, after one person died in an equipment malfunction during a tour of the mine according to the Teller County Sheriff's Department. Twelve other people remained trapped 500 feet below as of 4:30 p.m. (Arthur Trickette-Wile/The Gazette via AP)
Published on Oct 11, 2024 07:59 am IST

14 Hindustan Copper Ltd officials rescued, 1 dead after mine lift collapses

All 14 trapped in Rajasthan mine rescued by relief teams (Photo - PTI/X)
Updated on May 15, 2024 12:53 pm IST

Rajasthan: 14 workers of Hindustan Copper Limited trapped in Kolihan mine

Rescue operations underway to rescue trapped HCL workers (Photo - PTI/X)
Updated on May 15, 2024 07:57 am IST

8 held for killing 2 in violence-hit C’garh village

Violence had erupted between Hindu and Muslim groups in the village on April 8 after a fight between schoolchildren. (Representative photo)
Updated on Apr 18, 2023 12:43 am IST

Humour: Your bubble or mine?

The pandemic brought unlikely people together, united by proximity
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 10:11 am IST

Salman Khan may quit Bigg Boss 13, says ‘part of mine wants to cut that part and throw it out’

Salman Khan poses for pictures at designer Kresha Bajaj's fashion show in Mumbai on Sunday. (ANI Photo)
Updated on Aug 04, 2020 01:10 am IST

Centre likely to extend forest clearances for over 40 mines

Forest clearances for over 40 mines on which leases are set to expire on March 31, 2020, are likely be extended for new lessees that will take over the mines.
Published on Dec 08, 2019 05:37 am IST

Alia Bhatt and Akansha Ranjan play BFF game, reveal how actor has Ranbir Kapoor on speed dial, wants two sons in future

Alia Bhatt and Akansha share secrets about their lives in an interview.
Updated on Aug 04, 2019 03:36 pm IST

‘Kerala is as much mine as Varanasi’: PM Modi in Guruvayur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday pledged to build a new India after a visit to the famed Sri Krishna temple in Kerala’s Guruvayur.
Updated on May 22, 2020 02:44 am IST

‘Victory not mine, but of people desperate for honesty’: PM Modi

The victory, Modi said, belonged to the toiling farmers who struggle to feed the nation, the poor who do not have proper houses to live in and the middle class that follows rules and pays taxes.
Updated on May 24, 2019 08:27 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: ‘Centre allocated most of mines to BJP-ruled states... we feel cheated’, says Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel at state Congress office in Raipur.
Updated on Mar 26, 2019 09:09 am IST

Dehradun pays last respects to late army major killed while defusing mine in Kashmir

Major Bisht’s body was brought by army personnel in Dehradun’s Old Nehru Colony on Monday at around 8.30am amid large crowds including chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, ministers, politicians, army, police and administrative officials who paid their last tributes to the major.
Updated on Feb 18, 2019 03:23 pm IST

Army officer killed while defusing mines was to get married next month

Major Chitresh Bisht died in Nowshera sector of Jammu and Kashmir after a mine he was defusing blew up.
Updated on Feb 18, 2019 08:42 am IST

Supreme Court seeks details from Meghalaya on illegal mines operating there

Meghalaya has nearly 640 million tonnes of coal reserves.
Published on Feb 08, 2019 11:14 pm IST

Government allows women to work in underground mines, eases restrictions

The government on Monday allowed women to work in underground mines and eased restrictions that prohibited them from working night shifts in surface mines.
Published on Feb 05, 2019 07:52 am IST

Another coal mine disaster: 3 dead, one missing in state-owned mine in Bengal

Rescuers work at the site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in Meghalaya.
Published on Jan 31, 2019 11:12 pm IST

28 lakh litres pumped out of Meghalaya’s rat-hole mine, still no change in water level

Multi-agencies personnel used high-powered pumps to drain out 28 lakh litres of water from the main shaft, where 15 miners got trapped, but Navy divers on Thursday found no change in the water level in the rat-hole mine to resume search operation, officials said.
Updated on Jan 10, 2019 08:05 pm IST

The closure of Germany’s last mine doesn’t mean the end of coal

Coal miners pose with the last piece of black coal at at the Prosper Haniel colliery on December 21, 2018, in Bottrop, Germany
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 09:05 am IST

Thirteen people trapped in ‘rat-hole’ mine in Meghalaya after flooding, rescue ops on

Rescuers work at the site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. Thirteen young miners were missing and feared dead following the collapse of a shaft and flooding of a coal mine they were digging illegally in India's remote northeast, police said Friday.
Published on Dec 15, 2018 09:06 am IST

Government plans to auction over 100 mines in six months

There are 102 blocks in the pipeline to be auctioned by March 2019 in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana and Assam.
Published on Oct 07, 2018 01:57 pm IST

‘He wanted a lifespan like mine’: John McCain’s 106-yr-old mom to be at memorial

Roberta McCain is expected to attend memorial and burial services in Washington and Maryland later this week for the middle son she called “Johnny,” the Vietnam prisoner of war, congressman, senator and two-time presidential candidate who died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 81.
Updated on Aug 30, 2018 09:31 pm IST