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This image provided by Indian Army shows rescue workers standing around a coal mine where at least nine workers are trapped, in Umrangso area of Dimapur Hasao district in northeastern state of Assam, India, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Indian Army via AP)
Indian army divers retrieve the body of one of at least 9 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine
Indian army divers have retrieved the body of one of at least nine miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state. The miners became trapped on Monday when water gushed in from a nearby unused mine.
 
This image provided by Indian Army shows an aerial view of the site where at least nine workers are trapped inside a coal mine, in Umrangso area of Dimapur Hasao district in northeastern state of Assam, India, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Indian Army via AP)
At least 9 miners are trapped in a coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state
At least nine workers are trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state and authorities have summoned the army to help in the rescue operation.
 
Flood affected people travel with their belongings through flood waters in Sildubi village in Morigaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, India, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed more than a dozen people over the last two weeks in India's northeast. (AP photo/Anupam Nath)
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in India’s northeast kill at least 16 people
Authorities say floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 16 people over the last two weeks in India’s northeast, where more than 300,000 have been displaced from their submerged homes.
 
Trees swing during heavy winds and rains caused by Cyclone Remal along the coastal areas at Bakkhali, South 24 parganas, West Bengal, India, Monday, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashim Paul)
At least 17 are killed when a stone quarry collapses in India’s northeast. 12 others remain missing
A stone quarry has collapsed in India’s northeast due to heavy rain triggered by a tropical storm, killing 17 quarry workers and leaving 12 missing.
 
People hold banners reading 'We don't want Border Fencing' at a gathering to protest against Indian government’s decision to scrap a limited free border movement between India and Myanmar, in Aizawl, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. India's four northeastern states, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram, share the border with Myanmar. (AP Photo/Isaac Zoramsanga)
Indians living along the border with strife-torn Myanmar protest restrictions on movement
Hundreds of people living in an Indian state bordering Myanmar have protested the Indian government’s decision to scrap a limited free border movement between the countries.
 
A Bhutanese woman shows the ink mark on her index finger after casting her vote in the national elections in Deothang, Bhutan, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The landlocked country in the eastern Himalayan mountain range is electing a new Parliament, with the parties in contest promising to fix the nation’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Bhutan’s People’s Democratic Party wins election in Himalayan kingdom and returns to power
The People’s Democratic Party has won the most seats in Bhutan’s parliamentary elections and will form the new government as residents hope politicians make good on promises to fix the economic crisis in the Himalayan nation.
 
In this handout photograph released by the Press Information Bureau, Indian Home Minister, Amit Shah, center, poses for a photograph with the leaders of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) after signing a memorandum of settlement with them in New Delhi, India, Dec. 29, 2023. (Press Information Bureau via AP)
A rebel group in the Indian state of Assam signs a peace accord with the government
A rebel group that fought for decades to free India’s northeastern state of Assam from New Delhi’s rule has signed a peace accord with the government pledging to end the insurgency in the region.
 
FILE- A Myanmarese looks towards the Indian side at the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram, India, Saturday, March 20, 2021. More than half of the estimated 5,000 refugees who had fled the heavy fighting in Myanmar’s western Chin state and had entered India’s northeastern Mizoram state have begun returning home, Indian officials said Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
Refugees who fled to India after latest fighting in Myanmar have begun returning home, officials say
Officials say more than half of the estimated 5,000 refugees who fled the heavy fighting in Myanmar’s western Chin state and entered northeastern India have begun returning home.
 
A vehicle lies in the debris of damaged houses in the flood affected area along the Teesta river in Rongpo, east Sikkim, India, Sunday, Oct. 8. 2023. Rescuers continued to dig through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan northeast, shortly after midnight Wednesday, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands to flee. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Indian rescuers are flying into the region where a flood washed out bridges and killed at least 74
Air force helicopters have rescued scores of stranded tourists in India’s Himalayan northeast after a 6-year-old hydroelectric dam cracked open last week in intense rain, flooding a valley and killing at least 74 people.
 
Buildings are inundated after flash floods triggered by sudden heavy rainfall swamped Rangpo town in Sikkim, India, Friday, Oct. 6. 2023. A flood that burst through a major hydroelectric dam in India's Himalayan northeast killed at least 31 people, officials said Friday, as ice-cold water swept through mountain towns, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. The flood began shortly after midnight Wednesday, when a glacial lake high in the mountains overflowed after a heavy rainfall. (AP Photo/Prakash Adhikari)
Deaths rise to 47 after an icy flood swept through India’s Himalayan northeast
Rescuers in India have found more bodies as they dug through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam.
 
This photo posted on Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga’s official account on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, shows a collapse at an under construction railroad bridge in Sairang, on the outskirts of Aizawal, Mizoram state, India, Wednesday, Aug.23, 2023. (Mizoram Chief Minister''s X via AP)
Construction platform at railroad bridge being built in India collapses, killing at least 26 workers
Police say that a construction platform at a railroad bridge being built in northeastern India has collapsed, killing at least 26 workers and injuring two others.
 
FILE- Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Gandhi on Thursday, June 28, visited communities clashing with each other during weeks of violence and living in relief camps in the northeastern state of Manipur amid a fresh shootout that claimed two more lives earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Shooting kills 2 in India’s troubled northeast as opposition leader Rahul Gandhi visits region
India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is visiting communities hit by weeks of violence and living in relief camps in a remote northeastern state. His visit comes as a shootout there claimed two more lives earlier in the day.
 
Temple chariot fire kills at least 6, leaves 10 others with burns in India’s remote northeast
A lawmaker says a temple chariot caught fire killing at least six people and leaving 10 others with burns after it came in contact with an overhead high-tension electric wire in India’s remote northeast.
 
Villagers salvage belongings from their flood-damaged houses in Bali village, west of Guwahati, India, Friday, June 23, 2023. Tens of thousands of people have moved to relief camps with one person swept to death by flood waters caused by heavy monsoon rains battering swathes of villages in India’s remote northeast this week, a government relief agency said on Friday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Flooding displaces tens of thousands and kills 1 as heavy monsoon rains batter Indian villages
Tens of thousands of people have taken shelter in government-run relief camps as heavy monsoon rains batter villages in India’s northeast. One person has died in the floodwaters.
 
Indian protesters stage shutdown against citizenship bill
Opponents of legislation that would grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim illegal migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have enforced an 11-hour shutdown across India’s northeastern region.
 
Rumors spread on social media fuel deadly India mob attacks
Fueled by rumors of child kidnappers that spread on social media, Indian mobs have killed well over a dozen people in brutal attacks since early May.
 
India arrests 22 after attackers kill 29 Muslims
“Even 2-year-old children who could barely walk have been shot dead. I have never witnessed such scenes in my life,” he told reporters.