Koderma: Koderma police have intensified crackdown against illegal mining and transportation of mica and other precious stones in the district. A day after forest and police officials raided an ...

In a predawn operation, Koderma forest officials seized three trucks and a JCB machine engaged in illegal mica mining within a protected forest area. Twenty-five personnel participated in the raid, ...

Relief workers try to pull out bodies of illegal miners from the collapsed mica mine in Fulwaria, Koderma, on Friday. Picture by Vishvendu Jaipuriar At least four illegal miners, on a mission to ...

A girl breaks away pieces of mica from rocks in an illegal open cast mine in Koderma district in Jharkhand on 29 June 2016. Photo: Reuters New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Authorities have raided mica mines, ...

Over 5,000 children in the age group of six to 14 have reportedly shunned schools in three mica mining districts of Jharkhand and Bihar to work as labourers to supplement their family income, said the ...