Rat-hole mining, once widely used for coal extraction, was banned in India in 2014. More from News A team of "rat miners" successfully rescued the 41 men who had been stranded in a highway tunnel ...

ALSO READ: What's the rat-hole mining technique used to rescue trapped workers in Uttarkashi tunnel? Despite the controversial nature and ban of rat-hole mining, the expertise of these miners ...

Rat-hole mining was banned in 2014. But it's still widely practised across the state, especially in the East Jaintia Hills where the men are trapped. These mines are privately owned and it is not ...

For 24 hours, Munna Qureshi kept digging away, metres deep inside a 2.6-feet-wide steel pipe. Hunched and weary, fatigue hit him in waves ever so often. But the 29-year-old from Delhi knew he ...

The Supreme Court banned it in 2014, but it continues illegally. Getty Images 'Rat-hole' mining was used to extract coal from narrow and deep mines in Meghalaya In January 2019, some 15 miners ...

When machines failed to free the 41 trapped workers in a collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, officials enlisted the help from miners of a banned practice known as "rat-hole" mining.

BP Katakey has warned that over 30,000 coal mine openings across the Meghalaya are vulnerable to illegal mining.

The rats were trained to poke their nose into a hole containing a substance, and rewarded when they performed the "nose poke" when a target scent was present. The rats were then introduced to non ...

What is rat-hole mining? Rat-hole mining is a method of manual drilling. It is carried out by skilled workers and is mostly common in Meghalaya. The term “rat hole" refers to the narrow pits dug ...

So, she opted for the next best thing — the Chicago rat hole. The rodent-shaped imprint in a sidewalk on the 1900 block of West Roscoe Street has become a cultural phenomenon, after gaining viral fame ...

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A resident had reported a rat sighting. “I got PTSD immediately,” Lauren Divine, the director of the island’s Ecosystem Conservation Office, told The Washington Post. Rats are a nuisance in ...