Shillong : Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar was on Saturday questioned for eight hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) here in the chit fund scam, and has been asked to appear again on Sunday for further examination. Former Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh, who was arrested in November 2013 in connection with Saradha […]
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CBI begins to grill Kolkata Police chief in Shillong
Shillong | The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday began questioning Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the chit fund case, an official said. “They (CBI) have started interrogating Kumar in their (CBI) Shillong branch office since 11 a.m. on the matter,” an official told IANS on the condition of anonymity. Kumar […]
CBI to grill Kolkata Police chief in Shillong today
Shillong : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Saturday in connection with the Saradha chit fund case, an official said on Friday. Kumar arrived in the state capital of Meghalaya on Friday evening from Kolkata via Guwahati by road with three more West Bengal cadre IPS officers […]
Army joins search and rescue operations in Meghalaya
Shillong : A platoon of Indian soldiers on Monday joined the search and rescue operations in Meghalaya where the fate of 13 miners remains unknown inside an illegal 370 feet deep coal mine in East Jaitia Hills district, an official said. Indian Navy divers couldn’t retrieve the body of another miner, which was detected on […]
Meghalaya: Navy divers continue efforts to retrieve body of second miner
Shillong : The Indian Navy divers on Sunday made efforts to retrieve the body of a miner, which was detected on Saturday by an underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV) inside a rat-hole coal mine at Ksan village in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills, where 13 more remained trapped for 45 days now. “The Navy divers are […]
Meghalaya : Navy detects another body in rat-hole coal mine
Shillong : Indian Naval divers on Saturday detected another body inside a 370 feet deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where over a dozen miners remain trapped since December 13, an official said. “They (Navy) detected another body at 3.18 a.m. with the help of an underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV),” a […]
Navy retrieves body of dead miner, no word on other 14 trapped miners
Shillong : A Navy team on Thursday pulled out a body from a 370-ft deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where no official is willing to confirm the fate of the remaining 14 miners, trappped since December 13. A 15-member Naval team from Visakhapatnam will continue to search for the remaining […]
Body pulled out from 370 feet deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district
Shillong : A Navy team on Thursday pulled out a body from a 370 deep feet flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where 14 miners still remain trapped since December 13. The highly decomposed body was pulled to the water surface by an underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV) and then taken out, […]
Navy resumes rescue operation in flooded Meghalaya coal mine
Shillong : Two days after suspending their operations, the Indian Navy on Tuesday resumed its operation to retrieve the body of one of the 15 miners trapped inside an illegal 370-feet flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, an official said. On Sunday, a 15-member naval team from Visakhapatnam had suspended their operation […]
Meghalaya mine tragedy: Navy divers search for detected body
Shillong : The Navy divers were on Saturday searching for the body of an unidentified miner in a 370-feet flooded coal mine in Meghalayaa’s East Jaintia Hills district, an official said. “The Indian Navy is trying to pull the dead body by underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV). Though photographs were captured but integration was not […]