Sand miners had dug deep trenches in the bed of a stream. The trenches were filled with water. | Photo Credit: G. Moorthy Two young sons of a farmer drowned in a ditch filled with water in Sambaragi village in Belagavi district of Karnataka on May 27. Deepak, 9, and Ganesh, 7, children of Sanjay … Read more
South Africa’s government says it won’t help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an official strategy against illegal mining. The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of … Read more
Eighteen-year-old Shamsia Alizada survived a deadly suicide-attack blast by ISIS on her academy two years ago. It killed more than 40 students and wounded numerous others. Scared, she briefly dropped out from Mawood Education Centre, but then went back with encouragement from her teachers. This deadly incident however couldn’t stop her from topping the university … Read more