The region’s terrain made mechanised extraction difficult, leading to a proliferation of rat-hole mines. This hazardous method involves digging narrow tunnels that are barely large enough for a ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and politicians.

When my sister called me Sunday afternoon and told me her family went to go see a famous rat hole 10 minutes away from her apartment in Chicago, I thought she was joking. However, a quick TikTok ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], February 20 (ANI): After 44 days, the bodies of the remaining five miners who were trapped inside the flooded rat-hole coal mine at 3 Kilo Umrangso area in Assam's Dima Hasao ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and politicians.

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Guwahati: State govt submitted a preliminary response to the suo moto petition taken by Gauhati high court over the rat-hole coal mine disaster in Assam's Dima Hasao, regarding the steps taken to ...

Guwahati: Five bodies of labourers were recovered that involved an illegal rat hole mining at Tin Kilo in Umrangsu in Dima Hasao district of Assam after 43 days of relentless search and rescue ...

On January 6, nine miners working in a rat-hole mine in Dima Hasao’s Umrangso coal reserves were trapped after the mine got flooded while they were working in it. Rescue operations with divers from ...

The Gauhati High Court Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of the mining tragedy in Umrangso, Assam, in which at least nine miners died earlier this month, and issued notices to the state government ...