The Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has recovered a body of an unknown person from a jungle near a closed open cast coal mine in Kalipahari area, under Asansol South police station here this morning.
Andal police have recovered the body of an unidentified person from Jambadh open cast coal mine in Banbahal area last night. The unidentified body has been sent to Asansol District Hospital for post-mortem.
A coal mine of the Eastern Coalfields Limited of Coal India, operating 200 metres below the surface, has topped the country in question of safer mining and has been awarded by the Director General of Mines Safety.
Members of Krishi Jomi Jiban Jibika Raksha Committee started an agitation against forcible land grabbing by the land mafia and have set on fire a makeshift thatched office of the land syndicate at Dakshinkhanda in Andal Police Station area of West Burdwan district.
Land owners have threatened to launch a major agitation and movement against the land acquisition of central public sector Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) at Nituria Block of Purulia district for its upcoming open cast coal mines project.
The meeting was conducted under the chairmanship of Additional Secretary & Nominated Authority M Nagaraju
Ghatal MP and Tollywood superstar Dev alias Dipak Adhikary visited the largest open cast coal mine of Sonepur Bazari in Pandaveswar today to select the site of his next film.
The death toll from a coal mine accident in Kazakhstan has reached 45, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The incident took place in BS Mining Outsourcing company's excavation project in West Modidih colliery at around 6 a.m.
Launching the 6th round of coal mine auction of the Ministry of Coal, she observed that India was at present the best investment destination in the world.
