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The commission will look into the circumstances leading to the assault on Surender Singh that caused his death and suggest deterrent measures to prevent the recurrence of such incidents.

In a horrifying incident that captures the terror of the mining mafia in Haryana, a senior police officer was run over by a stone-laden truck in Nuh today when he went to stop illegal stone mining.

The officer's gunman and his driver jumped aside to safety, but the DSP was hit.

In Rajasthan, widows of stone miners who died of silicosis have no choice but to return to mining In many cases, the women end up in a vicious cycle of loans for treatment of ailments or simply to survive. Kamala Bhil, an Adivasi woman, who lost her husband to silicosis. | MLPC/ Mongabay “What is the alternative?” said Kamala Bhil, whose husband died of silicosis and one of her sons is suffering after being diagnosed with the lung disease. “Where is it? Four of my sons ...

Yediyurappa, who spoke to reporters before leaving for Bengaluru on Sunday morning, said that he has asked the officials concerned to regularise those mines only if they meet all the legal requirement