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Rights groups say migrant workers dying on Saudi job sites as kingdom prepares for World CupHuman Rights Watch and FairSquare reports reveal preventable deaths of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia due to job-site accidents and illnes...
India's biodiversity at risk: Urgent action needed to protect wildlifeIndia's rich biodiversity is in peril, with the elephant population dropping by nearly 20% due to habitat loss, poaching, and human-induced...
Expert committee on most painless method for death penalty soon, Supreme Court informedThe development took place during the resumed hearing of a petition seeking to do away with death by hanging and adopt methods, namely leth...
India lost 329 tigers in 3 years, including 29 due to poaching: GovernmentThe data showed that the number of poaching cases has reduced over the years from 17 in 2019 to four in 2021. The minister reported that th...
Tiger deaths increased to 127 in 2021 from 106 in 2020, says government in Rajya SabhaAs reported by states, the tiger mortality stood at 127 during 2021. Last year, the maximum 42 deaths were reported in Madhya Pradesh, foll...
282 elephants, two tigers, 15 leopards died since 2018 in Odisha: GovtOf the 282 elephants, seven were poached, 13 were killed in train mishaps, four in road accidents, 43 died due to electrocution, 135 due to...
49 tigers died in India this year, most in Madhya Pradesh, Parliament toldMinister of State for Environment Mahesh Sharma in a written reply said as per figures recorded till December 12, total tiger mortality sto...
39 lakh deaths in last 12 yrs were avoidable: Government dataAccidents at railway tracks and crossings alone caused over 26,000 deaths during the period, that’s six deaths a day.
Supreme Court asks government about modes of execution in other countriesThe court, however, made it clear that the apex court would not decide as to what should be the mode of executing a condemned prisoner in I...
- India loses 41 tigers in 7 months
Tiger deaths persisted in the country despite the Union and state governments’ efforts towards conservation.
Steady rise in casualties in SAIL plants: Steel Minister Beni Prasad VermaThe number of casualties due to fatal accidents such as fall from height, explosion, fire etc. rose consistently in SAIL plants between 201...
- Fatalities in SAIL plants rise to 20 till August this year
Fatalities in plants of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) have shot up to 20 in the current year so far as against a total of 27 in the last ...
Fatalities in SAIL plants rise to 20 till August this yearDeaths in Bhilai Plant, which has won Prime Minister's Trophy for best Integrated Steel Plant for a record 10 times, rose to four from nil ...
- Poachers thrive as forest officials neglect prosecution
At a time when leopard sightings are becoming very rare in protected areas (PAs), the poaching of three of these animals at Dhamnewada in N...
Tigress electrocuted in Bandhavgarh buffer zoneAdding to the woes of the Madhya Pradesh government trying to revive the big cat population, a tigress was found electrocuted at Badwara ra...
- Racist emails: 4 Australian cops sacked for joking about Indian's electrocution
Four have been sacked, one demoted, another five have been fined up to 3000 dollars & placed on 12-month good behaviour bonds.
- Zoos have become 'death traps' for animals: PETA
Concerned over theft of eight rare species of Brazilian monkeys (marmosets) from Alipore zoo, an international animal rights organisation a...