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The incident happened in the Jarvai Valley, Brazils second largest indegineous reserve, home to an estimated 20 out of 103 uncontacted tribes. (Photo: AP)

For love of gold: Rare tribesmen slaughtered by gold miners in Brazil

According to officials gold miners in Brazil slaughtered rare natives while they were collecting eggs along the Amazon...

12 Sept 2017 2:31 PM IST

Navy personnel conduct rescue task at the site of the coal mine collapse at Ksan, in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya, Monday. (Photo: AP)

Miners should have been saved by now, says Supreme Court

The court also asked the Meghalaya government as to why it was not successful in rescuing these people.

4 Jan 2019 5:44 AM IST

The rat-hole mine, located on top of a hillock fully covered with trees in East Jaintia Hills district, had got flooded when water from the nearby Lytein river gushed into it, trapping the miners. (Photo: ANI)

Meghalaya mine disaster: Navy, NDRF divers to go down to measure...

The exercise is to find out if abandoned mine is connected with 370-foot-deep mine in which 15 miners are trapped.

2 Jan 2019 5:21 PM IST

The rat-hole mine, located on top of a hillock fully covered with trees in East Jaintia Hills district, had got flooded when water from the nearby Lytein river gushed into it, trapping the miners. (Photo: ANI)

SC agrees to hear plea seeking urgent steps for rescue of trapped...

15 miners are still trapped inside an illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya since December 13.

2 Jan 2019 1:15 PM IST

Navy personnel conduct a rescue task at the site of a coal mine collapse at Ksan, in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Miner avoided falling into Meghalaya mine, where 15 are trapped,...

Poverty and lack of jobs has forced thousands of migrants to risk their lives as 'rat-miners' in Meghalaya.

1 Jan 2019 4:32 PM IST

The piling-up of unsold ire ore inventories in Karnataka has the states miners and mine-dependent people worried.

Huge inventories vex Karnataka iron ore miners

Karnataka is the only state to witness high import during FY19 despite having availability of enough material...

27 March 2019 1:22 AM IST

In this file photo taken on March 19, 2018 a technician inspects bitcoin mining at Bitfarms in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec. (Photo | AFP)

Wanna find out what this Bitcoin business is all about? Everything you...

Bitcoin miners will soon get only half the bitcoins for validating transactions. Find out what that means and how it all...

7 May 2020 8:14 PM IST