KODERMA/BHILWARA/SYDAPURAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults ...

KODERMA/BHILWARA/SYDAPURAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults ...

NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in India have raided mica mines, arrested traders and begun steps to regulate the underground industry, local officials said, after a ...

KODERMA, India, Nov 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After watching her sister-in-law and a friend die in a mica mine in eastern India in March this year, 15-year-old Ritika Murmu vowed she would ...

Here are some of the key findings of a three-month long investigation in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh into child labor involved in producing mica, the mineral that puts ...

Koderma: A special task force of the police and forest officials seized five tons of illegally mined mica in a pre-dawn raid ...

Child rights experts say legalising the mining of mica will allow the sector to be regulated, root out child labour, and ensure better wages and conditions for mine workers BHUBANESWAR, May 4 (Thomson ...

MUMBAI, India, Jan 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When India went into lockdown last March and Tota Rai lost his cleaning job in the textile hub of Surat, he knew working in the illegal mica mining ...

“There are some portions where mica mining is going on and where children are involved, and we’re trying to roll out schemes to support families to generate other income such as training in goat ...

"There are some portions where mica mining is going on and where children are involved, and we're trying to roll out schemes to support families to generate other income such as training in goat ...