A view of the Rajapur coal mines on the eve of World Environment Day, at Jharia in Dhanbad. World Environment Day is celebrated to create awareness on protection of the environment...

A view of a coal mine during a nationwide strike at Jharia in Dhanbad. Coal India (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) workers are on a day-long token strike protestin...

Employees of BCCL (Bharat Coking Coal Ltd) demonstrate during nationwide coal strike at Jharia in Dhanbad. Coal India (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) workers are ...

Villagers carry coals near a coal field fire area at Bokapahari in Jharia, in Dhanbad.

Odisha Fire and Disaster team pumping the water from nearby old shaft located 500 meters from the main site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in Meghalaya.

Odisha Fire and Disaster team pumping the water from nearby old shaft located 500 meters from the main site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in Meghalaya.

A team of 11 Navy divers with their equipments deployed to conduct rescue task at the site of a coal mine collapse at Ksan, in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 3rd right, reveives a symbolic last lump of coal during a closing ceremony of the last German coal mine Prosper-Haniel in Bottrop, Germany...

People walk to the illuminated Bauhaus coal mine complex Zollverein in Essen, Germany. The UNESCO World Heritage Site mine was closed in 1986. At the end of this week the last Germ...