Bengal, China's Zhongtong ink deal for bus manufacturing unit
Kolkata, Nov 5 (IANS) An agreement was signed on Thursday between China's Zhongtong Bus Holding Company and the West Bengal...
View ArticleIndo-Bangla work on free jumbo route
GUWAHATI: Human migration may remain a contentious issue between India and Bangladesh, but not elephants. The two countries are working with their respective external affairs and home affairs...
View ArticleCholanaikars vote braving rain, wild elephants
: Adivasis belonging to the Cholanaiker tribe polled their vote at a booth at Nedunkayam, braving incessant rain and the threat of...
View ArticleVictims of tusker rampage get relief
BHADRAPUR: As many as 66 people victimised by elephant rampage in Jhapa district this year were provided with compensation of Rs...
View ArticleIndia, Bangladesh join hands for safe cross-border elephant migration
GUWAHATI: Human migration may remain a contentious issue between India and Bangladesh, but not for elephants. The two countries are working with their respective external affairs and home affairs...
View ArticleElephants Besiege Eastern Corridor
Elephants have besieged the Upper East Regional eastern corridor forest reserve at Tili in the the Bawku West District, destroying farms and trees. They are believed to have come from the forest...
View ArticleFarmer mauled by jumbo; 6th death due to man-animal conflict this year
COIMBATORE: In the sixth incident of death by elephant attack, since April this year, a 34-year-old farmer was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Mungilmadai Kuttai coming under the Boluvampatti...
View ArticleKerala launches ambulance service for elephants
WAYANAD (KERALA): In a first of its kind, the Kerala forest department has launched an ambulance service to transport sick and injured elephants. A brand new lorry has been acquired with...
View ArticleNow, elephants get ambulance service in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Elephants in Kerala will soon have the luxury of 'ambulance' service to transport sick and injured jumbos. For the first time, the state Forest Department has launched an animal...
View ArticleOne killed as elephants overrun Bengal village
Kolkata, Nov 6 (IANS) A herd of wild elephants overran a village in West Bengal's Burdwan district, killing one man and injuring two others including his wife, villagers said on Friday. "The elephants...
View ArticleAssam villagers shift to give way to jumbos
Tribal villagers in Assam have voluntarily shifted their settlement from a major elephant corridor. Eighteen families of Ram Terang village in...
View ArticleTrained elephants used to control forest fires in Riau
Officials in Riau are using trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hoses to help patrol forests and control fires. For nearly three months, Riau province in East Sumatra has been blanketed by...
View Article‘Killing wild boars will have an impact on carnivores’
His rendezvous with wild animals began at a very early age and most of his encounters were with man-eater tigers, leopards and rouge elephants. Nawab Shafath Ali Khan, a third generation wildlife...
View ArticleWill China come to investment-starved Bengal's rescue?
Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) After hunting for investments in a rather futile way in Singapore and Britain, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appears to have taken some interest in looking for money...
View ArticleMan trampled to death in Jorhat elephant attack
A man was killed and five others were seriously injured by a herd of wild elephants at Jhanjimukh area in Assam's Jorhat district, a police officer said. ......
View ArticleWeak and in pain, five female elephants cry for attention in Mandya
Five female elephants, which were part of a circus, have been confined to a building in Mandya district for the past five months after authorities of the Animal Welfare Board of India and the Central...
View ArticleBengal policeman dies after clash with gamblers
Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) A police sub-inspector died in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district following a clash with gamblers, police said on Wednesday, following...
View ArticleDrought or cyclone, government relief bypasses Odissa sharecroppers
Bhubaneswar, Nov 1 (IANS) It's a tale which repeats itself with regularity in a state which often bears the brunt of natural disasters. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik recently announced a Rs 1,000 crore...
View ArticleIndonesia uses trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hoses to...
SIAK, Indonesia -- Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol. Officials in Indonesia are using trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hoses to help control fires that...
View ArticleSeven killed in Bengal car-bus collision
Kolkata, Nov 2 (IANS) At least seven people were killed when a car collided with a bus in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district on Monday, police said. The accident took place on Kalyani Expressway...
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