BHUBANESWAR: Panic ensued in Kanas area in Puri district on Wednesday morning after a wild elephant wandered onto the campus of a local college, causing a major disruption. The incident unfolded when the elephant, apparently straying from its natural habitat, entered the college premises, sending students and faculty members into a tizzy.As the elephant moved…
MYSURU: A leopard was sighted at the Infosys campus in Mysuru early Tuesday, sending foresters and police on a hunt to trap the big cat.CCTV footage confirmed the leopard’s presence some 100 metres from the hostel at the high-security campus located in the Hebbal industrial area on the outskirts of the city. However, personnel from…
Representative Image (IANS Photo) JAIPUR: A 10-year-old male tiger, identified as T-86, was allegedly killed in a retaliatory act after it attacked and killed a 45-year-old resident of Uliyana village near Ranthambore National Park (RNP) in Rajasthan on Saturday. The attack by the tiger led to angry protests, with villagers marching with the man’s body…
BENGALURU: The simmering dispute over the 599-acre forest land in Peenya-Jalahalli area, currently under the possession of PSU Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT), has taken a ‘cinematic’ turn. Alleging that ‘hundreds of trees’ on the forest land were axed to facilitate the shooting of Sandalwood’s Rocking Star Yash‘s movie ‘Toxic‘, forest minister Eshwar Khandre Tuesday directed…
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand forest department has established 42 field-based “ecological laboratories” across the state to monitor changes in its forests, which are being influenced by climate change, reports Shivani Azad. These labs will provide crucial data on the impact of erratic climate patterns, including early flowering in species such as rhododendrons and Brahmakamal.TOI had previously…
LUCKNOW: A five-year-old girl sleeping in her house in Girdharpurwa village of Uttar Pradesh‘s Bahraich district was injured in a wolf attack early Tuesday, a day after wolves killed a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and injured two women in back-to-back strikes in less than 24 hours Monday.This was the third wolf attack in the region in the…
BAHRAICH: In back-to-back strikes in less than 24 hours, wolves killed a toddler and injured two women in separate attacks in Hardi area of Uttar Pradesh‘s Bahraich district that has been in the grip of a wolf menace for two months now. As many as nine people, including eight children, have been killed and 20…
VADODARA: Carrying a pet dog for a ride on a two-wheeler is a thing of the past in Vadodara. Now crocodiles are being taken out on rides on the city roads! A video of a crocodile sitting between two men on a two-wheeler is going viral in the city. The man riding the pillion is…
PILIBHIT: Wildlife experts have suggested local communities in close proximity to tiger reserves in Uttar Pradesh should be partners in wildlife conservation programmes to mitigate man-wildlife conflicts. Mudit Gupta, WWF’s (World Wide Fund for Nature), head of Terai Arc Landscape (TAL), which stretches 30,000 sqkm across Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, presented this view.After attending…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal minister Akhil Giri has come under scrutiny after a video surfaced showing him threatening and verbally abusing Moumita Sahu, a woman official from the state forest department. The incident took place on Saturday in Purba Medinipur district following the removal of illegal encroachments from forest land near Tajpur sea beach.In the…
