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Wayanad (Kerala), April 3 A wild elephant, affectionately known as "Muttikkomban," was captured on Friday morning after it posed a threat to people and crops in the Vadakkanad area, forest officials said.The operation was carried out on the orders of the chief wildlife warden following...

Gaurela (Chhattisgarh), April 3 A 55-year-old man was killed by a wild elephant in the Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district of Chhattisgarh on Friday, according to forest officials.Trilochan Singh, the victim, was collecting mahua flowers in the forest near his house in Dandiya village, under the...

Chaibasa/Garwah, March 31 Three people were killed by wild elephants in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum and Garwah districts over a 24-hour period, officials said on Tuesday.A 55-year-old woman was killed, and an elderly man was injured in Barkundiya village in West Singhbhum on Monday night.They...

Koderma, March 29 A 55-year-old woman was killed by a wild elephant in Koderma district, Jharkhand, on Sunday, police said.The incident occurred around 5 am when the woman, identified as Sita Devi, had gone to a forest near her residence in Jamu Harladih village, under the Markacho Police...

Satna, March 28 A female sambar deer was killed by a pack of stray dogs in a rice paddy field in Satna district, Madhya Pradesh, on Saturday, according to a forest department official.The incident occurred in the morning in ward number 15 of Chaubepur village, near the Chitrakoot nag...

Bijnor (UP), March 28 A 57-year-old woman was killed by a leopard while she was working in a field near a forest with her husband, police said on Saturday.The incident took place at Hidayatpur Chauhadwala village in the Afzalgarh area on Friday evening.According to Forest Ranger Pradeep...

Korba, March 27 A female bear and her two cubs died after coming into contact with a power line, allegedly illegally installed by a state-run electricity transmission company in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Friday.The incident occurred on Thursday in the Kendai forest...

Bengaluru, March 26 Karnataka Minister Eshwar B Khandre clarified in the Assembly on Thursday that there is no provision to offer government jobs to the legal heirs of persons killed in wildlife attacks, as per existing government orders.Responding to a question by Sringeri MLA T D Rajegowda...

Thane, March 26 Forest authorities have launched an investigation into two cases of monkeys injured by arrows in the Yeoor forest in Thane district, Maharashtra, and have announced a reward of ₹25,000 for information leading to the identification of the perpetrators, officials said on Thursday...

Bhubaneswar, March 24 More than 14,433 hectares of forest land have been diverted for 176 mining projects in Odisha over the past 10 years, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Ganesh Ram Singkhuntia told the state Assembly on Tuesday.During this period, more than 11,214 hectares...

Sri Vijaya Puram, March 23 Tribal leaders of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands raised concerns on Monday about a major infrastructure project, alleging a lack of transparency, environmental risks, and continued neglect of tribal rights.The project, titled 'Holistic Development of Great Nicobar'...

Wayanad (Kerala), March 22 The Forest Department has launched an operation to tranquilize and capture a wild elephant that has repeatedly raided crops and posed a threat to human lives in Vadakkanad, officials said on Sunday.According to forest officials, efforts are being made to capture the...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 21 (UP) – The carcass of a leopard cub was recovered from a field in the Samapurnanagar range of the Dudhwa buffer zone on Saturday morning. Forest officials attributed the death to an attack by another leopard.Kirti Chaudhary, Deputy Director of the Dudhwa buffer...

In Jammu and Kashmir, security forces have launched search operations following reports of suspected terrorists moving in different locations in the Rajouri, Doda, and Poonch districts. An Akashvani Jammu correspondent reports that a combing operation was launched in Khandli and surrounding...

Jammu, March 18 Security forces have launched search operations following reports of the movement of suspected terrorists in different locations in the Rajouri, Doda, and Poonch districts of J-K, officials said on Wednesday.A combing operation was launched in Khandli and its surrounding areas...

Shimla, March 17 In what appears to be a case of double suicide, a man and a woman were found dead in a forest area near Parwanoo in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, according to the police on Tuesday.The deceased have been identified as Yashika Lama (20), a national from Nepal who...

Bijnor (UP), March 15 A typical morning in the sugarcane fields turned into a tragedy on Sunday when a leopard snatched a 10-year-old girl from her mother's side and dragged her into the forest here.The victim, identified as Aditi, was returning home with her mother and brother after planting...

Phulbani (Odisha), March 14 Three people were killed by separate groups of elephants in the jungles of the Kandhamal district, forest officials said on Saturday.Two people died in the Damba forest in the Petapanfa gram panchayat on Friday evening, while another man met a similar fate in the...

Raigarh, March 12 Two elephants were found dead in a river in Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh, a forest official said on Thursday.The carcasses of the two elephants were spotted in the Kurkut river in the Gharghoda forest range on Wednesday and were later retrieved by a team under the...

Itanagar, March 12 Helicopters of the Indian Air Force conducted a four-day operation to help contain a forest fire in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, carrying out 54 sorties and dropping around 1.62 lakh litres of water over affected forest areas and nearby settlements, officials...