The Housing Authority employee who made the kill says it came running out of a rat hole with two pals. And the head of the tenant association says residents have reported sightings of the giants ...

The issue of "rat hole" mining had caught headlines after several miners died after the mines got flooded, both in Meghalaya and Assam. The mines are first dug vertically and coal is mined from ...

Rat-hole mining is a primitive and hazardous method of coal extraction practised in India, particularly in the northeastern state of Meghalaya. This technique involves digging small, vertical ...