Meghalaya
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Moderate earthquake jolts west Meghalaya
India | Mar 22, 2019, 08:12 AM ISTThe earthquake of magnitude 4.7 shook the region around 8 pm, officials at the regional seismological centre in Shillong told PTI.
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Meghalaya: Lok Sabha elections in a single phase, check details here
Mar 12, 2019, 12:34 PM ISTThe Lok Sabha elections in Meghalaya will be held in a single phase as announced by the Election Commission of India on sunday
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Meghalaya Miners Rescue: Indian Navy divers find second body at 280ft
India | Jan 26, 2019, 01:12 PM ISTThe first body was recovered by the expert divers of defece services on Friday from a 370-foot deep coal mine, after 40 days of getting trapped.
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Meghalaya Mining Rescue: Retrieved miner's body identified by family
India | Jan 26, 2019, 08:44 AM ISTIn a joint operation, the Indian Navy and the National Disaster Response Force pulled the body out of the mine's shaft on Thursday, nine days after it was spotted.
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Operations for rescue of 12 trapped miners in Meghalaya not abandoned, Centre tells SC
India | Jan 21, 2019, 10:37 PM ISTIn its status report of the rescue operations since January 7, the Advocate General of the Meghalaya government Amit Kumar said that in January the Navy detected one body at a depth of 210 feet.
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Meghalaya: Body of one miner among 15 others recovered, rescue operation underway
News | Jan 17, 2019, 11:15 AM ISTMeghalaya: Operation continues to rescue the miners who have been trapped in a mine at Ksan in Jaintia Hills, one body has been recovered. The miners are trapped since 13th December.
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Meghalaya: Body of one of trapped miners found, rescue operations underway
India | Jan 17, 2019, 12:15 PM IST15 miners were trapped in a mine at Ksan village near Lyteiñ River in East Jaintia Hills district on 13th December, 2018.
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Meghalaya govt orders implementation of Supreme Court order banning coal transportation with immediate effect
India | Jan 16, 2019, 09:08 AM ISTThe Supreme Court has also rapped the Meghalaya government for failing to curb illegal mining and has asked it to file an affidavit.
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Meghalaya: Citizens' report urges halt on coal mining, suggests promotion of clean energy
India | Jan 14, 2019, 08:59 AM ISTThe two-volume report released by social activists Agnes Kharshing, Amita Sangma, Angela Rangad, Michael N. Syiem and others has been submitted to the Supreme Court with a plea to consider it for hearing.
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Submersible robotic inspection firm joins Meghalaya mine rescue operations
India | Jan 13, 2019, 04:26 PM ISTA team of a city-based company that specialises in submersible robotic inspections on Sunday joined the operation to rescue 15 miners trapped for a month now inside a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya.
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Meghalaya mine collapse: Operation continues to rescue miners
India | Jan 08, 2019, 02:05 PM ISTChief Minister Conrad K Sangma, who was overseeing the entire operation, was also not alerted about the matter as it was "too sensitive", according to the official sources.
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Two miners die as another coal mine collapses in Meghalaya
India | Jan 07, 2019, 08:42 AM ISTEarlier on Friday, the tribunal had imposed a fine of Rs 100 crore on the Meghalaya government for its failure to curb illegal mining in the state.
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Meghalaya rescue mission: Is there any hope for 15 young miners?
India | Jan 06, 2019, 03:17 PM ISTTwenty-five days on, the authorities have failed to find even a single trace of the trapped miners despite continuous efforts by the NDRF, Indian Navy and private organisations. Bu all is not lost.
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Meghalaya mine collapse: Facing hurdles in rescuing trapped miners, Centre tells SC
India | Jan 04, 2019, 06:03 PM ISTThe government told a bench comprising Justice A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer that the illegal mine was located near a river and seepage of water from the river was hindering the rescue operation.
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No blueprint of illegal mine, facing difficulties in rescuing 15 miners: Centre tells SC
India | Jan 04, 2019, 02:37 PM ISTThe government told the apex court that the illegal mine was was located near a river and seepage of water was hindering the rescue operation.
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Meghalaya miners should be taken out 'dead or alive', says Supreme Court as it slams state govt
India | Jan 03, 2019, 01:21 PM ISTA survivor of the accident had said on Saturday that there was no way the trapped miners would come out alive.
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Meghalaya: 21 days on, families of trapped miners lose hope as rescuers struggle to dewater coalpit
India | Jan 02, 2019, 11:12 PM ISTRescue Operations spokesperson, Reginald Susngi, said that Odisha firefighters have drained out 7.20 lakh litres of water in six hours on Wednesday from an old shaft near the main one, where the miners are trapped.
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SC agrees to hear plea seeking urgent steps for rescue of trapped Meghalaya miners
India | Jan 02, 2019, 12:11 PM ISTFamily members of at least seven trapped miners had already given up hope to rescue them alive and requested the government to retrieve the bodies for last rites.
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Trapped Meghalaya miners untraced even as Odisha firefighters pump out water
India | Jan 02, 2019, 06:39 AM ISTThe fate of the miners, who are trapped inside a flooded coalmine in Ksan village, about 130 from Meghalaya's capital Shillong, for the last 20 days still remains unknown.
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Meghalaya mine: Navy divers re-enter shaft, want water level reduced
India | Dec 31, 2018, 09:10 PM ISTOn the 18th day of the operation, the Navy divers stayed inside the shaft for three hours with a hi-tech gadget, Under Water Remotely Operated Vehicle (UWROV), and found visibility to be very poor – only one foot, operation spokesperson R Susngi said.