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For more than a month, Rajeshwari, a 42-year-old temple elephant in India, lay desultorily on a patch of sand, her forelimb and femur broken and her body ravaged by sores. An animal lover went […]
Chhattisgarh forest department officials have confirmed the presence of a black panther at the Udanti-Sitanadi tiger reserve in Gariyaband district. Forest officials believe this is the first time footage of the rare beast has […]
North India saw good rains last week, but its reservoirs are precariously deficit. The total live storage now is 3.62 BCM (billion cubic metres), which is 20% of capacity. The storage during the corresponding […]
In an appalling incident, a reporter working with Andhra Prabha, a Telugu daily was allegedly beaten up by illegal sand excavation in the Bhadradri-Kothgudem district of Telangana. 32-year-old Suresh Kumar Idula, who hails from […]
An Indian court has granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, two days after he was jailed for poaching rare antelope back in 1998. The defence had questioned the testing of the animals and […]
A young Indian woman was lucky to survive, doctors say, after she fought off a tiger which attacked her goat. Rupali Meshram, 23, said when she heard the goat scream she ran out of […]
A Jodhpur court on Thursday convicted Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the infamous blackbuck poaching case of 1998. The other accused – actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre – were acquitted by the […]
Several areas in Bengaluru witnessed a hailstorm on Friday afternoon. Neighbourhoods like Whitefield and KR Puram witnessed hail stones raining down upon them even as temperatures hit a maximum of 34C during the day. […]
A snake charmer nearly died after his python tried to strangle him during a live performance in Mau, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The man, whose name is not […]
Nagammal was just fourteen years old when she started working. Pushed by family circumstances, she joined the zoo as a teenager, which wasn’t yet the Aringar Anna Zoological Park as we know it today. […]
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