Rat miner rejects another house offered in Delhi

Rat-hole miner Wakeel Hassan, who had lost his house in a demolition drive, has rejected another offer of a house in Dilshad Garden in New Delhi by the authorities, he told PTI on Saturday. IMAGE:......

'Won't move': Rat miner after spending 2nd night on footpath

"We will not move from this site," says Wakeel Hassan, a rat-hole miner who was part of the Silkyara tunnel rescue operation, sitting on a footpath where he and his family spent their second night......

Homeless after eviction, rat-hole miner's daughter misses Class 10 exam too

A teenage daughter of rat-hole mining expert Wakeel Hasan, who was involved in rescuing 41 labourers who got trapped in an under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand last year, missed her exam on......

His house razed, rat miner rejects DDA's guest house offer

Hours after razing his house in a demolition drive in Delhi, the DDA offered to move Wakeel Hassan, a rat-hole miner who was part of the Silkyara tunnel rescue operation, and his family to a......

'Beautiful coming together of heart and humanity'

IMAGE: The workers inside Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel with their rescuers. Photograph: ANI Photo Bollywood stars applauded the efforts of 22 agencies that rescued the 41 workers trapped in the......