SHILLONG: The National Green Tribunal will hold a hearing in Shillong on Friday on the matter of threat to life arising out of coal mining in South Garo Hills District.

NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar and expert member Ranjan Chatterjee will hear the matter.

Avalanches, lightning and flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir between Monday and Wednesday has claimed 16 lives and injured 30.

Snowfall subsided on Wednesday and major roads in the Valley were cleared by late afternoon though interior roads all over the valley were still not motorable. Similarly, power supply was restored to parts of the Capital but the rural districts were in darkness. Telecommunication and data services were also restored.

Thousands affected by smoke from the fire which has been burning for three weeks and looks to continue for many months

Seven miners were killed and nine others injured when a methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, emergency officials said on Tuesday.

Seven miners have been killed and nine injured in an explosion at a mine in eastern Ukraine, officials say.

South African rescuers were trying to reach more than 200 illegal miners reported trapped underground in an abandoned gold shaft in a suburb just east of Johannesburg on Sunday, an emergency servic

Rescue workers in South Africa are trying to free 17 miners trapped underground after a fire at Doornkop mine west of Johannesburg.

At least two miners paid their lives and three injured on Monday when a phosphate mine collapsed at Tarnawai near Qalandar Abad.

Six people were confirmed dead and one injured after a coal mine gas blast on Saturday night in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said.