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North Korean team will be sent to coal mines as punishment, reports say | Herald Sun MORE than one disgraced national team has been heckled by angry fans on returning home - but North Korea's misfiring stars reportedly face a much harsher punishment. Unfortunately, crazed dictator Kim...

Not many know that the dangerous and suffocating rat mines of Meghalaya are worked by 70,000 child miners. Following them into hellish pits, Kunal Majumder exposes the dark veins of an exploitative industry. Photographs by Shailendra Pandey SIX MONTHS ago, Sundar Tamang, 16, ran away from his...

This Diwali could well be a dark one for Punjab with Ropar and Bathinda thermal plants on the verge of closure due to paucity of coal stocks. Sources say the two thermal power plants, responsible for the majority of power produced in the state, are left with coal stocks for only two days. Though...

This Diwali could well be a dark one for Punjab with Ropar and Bathinda thermal plants on the verge of closure due to paucity of coal stocks. More...