Meghalayas black holes: Unregulated rathole coal
The attack on an activist in a coal belt in Indias northeast frontier state of Meghalaya has spotlighted the issue of ecological degradation from rat hole mining and the outlawed activities continuing in defiance of a ban on this unscientific subsurface mining technique in the state.. In November, wellknown Meghalaya activist Agnes Kharshiing and her companion were brutally