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India’s most unusual village where cobras roam freely through homes and snakes are treated like familySnake village of India: Shetphal, a village in Maharashtra often called the “Snake Village of India,” is known for its unusual coexistence ...
India's Naxal deadline: Forces launch final assault, Centre prepares blueprint post March 31Security forces are launching a major operation to neutralize remaining Maoist cadres before the March 31 deadline to end left-wing extremi...
The Naxal story: A shrinking red citadel, road to March 2026 deadlineIn January 2024, the People Liberation Guerilla Army, led by Naxal commander Mandvi Hidma, attacked security forces trying to establish a f...
India tackles snakebite crisis: New action plan aims to halve deaths by 2030Snakebites pose a significant threat in India, which has the highest snakebite mortality rate globally. A 2020 study reported 1.2 million d...
12-foot venomous cobra rescued from Karnataka house, released into the wildA colossal 12-foot king cobra was rescued in Agumbe village, Karnataka, after sparking panic earlier this week. Ajay Giri, the field direct...
Be urban, be elite. You like being an urban eliteCall it the Mahatma's ailment - 'It costs us a lot of money to keep this man poor,' the Nightingale of India had rightly tweeted without a ...
View: We are winning against Maoists, but it doesn’t have to come at such high costThe problem begins here. It is not that soldiers do not die in gun battles. The problem, as many CRPF officers would tell you in anguish, i...
First women team inducted into CRPF's CoBRA commando unitThe Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) was raised under the CRPF in 2009 for undertaking intelligence-based jungle warfare oper...
CRPF to undertake more counter-insurgency operations in Naxal-hit areasThe director general of the CRPF said the new action plan of the force will be to effectively dominate the area.
After Sukma attack, CRPF set to overhaul anti-Naxal operations in BastarActing DG of the CRPF, Sudeep Lakhtakia said today that the latest attack has "naturally called for the revision of Standard Operating Proc...
1965 war: When foot soldiers took on the mighty Pattons of PakistanAsal Uttar was a battle where foot soldiers took on the Pattons that- America had so famously bragged - could not be destroyed by anything ...
ASI's gold hunt changed the face of this Unnao seatThe ASI ended up excavating only 'stone figure of lion, terracotta arecanut shaped beads, two hearths and three burnt brick walls' in Daund...
Tradition vs the judiciaryAfter protests in Tamil Nadu in favour of Jallikattu, people demanded resumption of traditional buffalo race in Karnataka called Kambala
Conflict zones: Five places where people cross animals paths with disastrous resultsThe proposed freight corridor through the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai poses a threat to wildlife.
Three close-to-home quick getaways for the extended weekendsTake your kids to Vansda National Park in Surat. The deciduous forest area is nestled in the Western Ghats of Sahyadri range.
In rare first, striped hyenas sighted in Dudhwa tiger reserveThe intensive camera trappings at the Dudhwa tiger reserve have sprung up another surprise.
Quick getaways from Delhi, Mumbai and BangaloreGet set for some hilly views and tranquil surroundings as you make way to Spiti in Himachal Pradesh.
Monetary transmission isn't as agile as it should be: D SubbaraoDuvvuri Subbarao agreed with Finance minister P Chidambaram's concerns that banks aren't passing on the policy rate cuts to end customers.
Mining taking heavy toll on Goa's wildlife: EnvironmentalistsIncessant digging that had been taking place around Goa's forests in search for iron ore has taken a heavy toll on wild animals and other s...
- CGOC or CGDC?
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee? Shouldn't it be renamed as Commonwealth Games Disorganised Committee?