One container was spotted in Williamsburg Thursday with a rat-sized hole one expert said appeared ... of the city’s latest anti-rat campaign. Under the rollout, buildings with nine or fewer ...

vertical shafts into the earth, often only wide enough for a single miner to descend. The technique delivered huge success last year in November, as a team of seven rat-hole miners rescued 41 ...

Coal mining in Meghalaya and Assam, once a small-scale practice, expanded dangerously in the 1980s due to industrial demand from West Bengal and Bangladesh. The region’s terrain made mechanised ...