The rat capital of the World, Chicago has sheltered ‘the’ widely-acclaimed rat hole for a few years. This rat's print left on the concrete of a sidewalk has quickly become a hit. Many have ...

The Assam government has started a massive crackdown against illegal rat-hole mines in the state. Thirteen illegal rat-hole mines were sealed and three miners working inside them were arrested on ...

An oral question from the Supreme Court to the Union government continues to remain unanswered even as rescue workers recover bodies of workers who died trapped in a flooded rat-hole coal mine at ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The infamous “Chicago Rat Hole” — which once served as a place of urban wonderment and, for one couple, matrimony — has officially been removed. City crews were captured ...

A tragedy in a coal mine in the northeastern Indian state of Assam has turned the spotlight once again on the illegal practice of rat-hole mining, which thrives in the region despite a ban by the ...

Guwahati: Gauhati high court has taken suo moto cognisance of the rat-hole coal mine disaster at Umrangso in Assam's Dima Hasao district, which occurred on Jan 6, trapping nine miners. The court ...

Over 13 illegal rat-hole mines were sealed and excavators were seized from Bittu Pahar of Namdang colliery under Assam's Margherita Co-District, on January 18. Four individuals were also arrested ...