Sweet life? Leopards in UP’s sugarcane fields are turning ‘soft’ and ‘fatter’, refusing to return to the wild, say forest officersLeopards in western Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are being deemed unfit for release due to their adaptation to sugarcane fields, leading t...
19 Nov, 2025, 04.32 PM IST
Stop blaming the dog — it’s the policy that bitesDelhi's civic body will launch a sterilisation and vaccination drive for street dogs. India reported many dog bite cases and rabies deaths ...
02 Aug, 2025, 12.29 AM IST
AI is making robots smarter. They’ll need boundariesRobots are already roaming factory and warehouse floors, and AI will make them smarter and more agile. As is usually the case with new tech...
12 Jun, 2024, 09.36 AM IST
Don't bark your head off about a 'stray dog menace', deal with it humanelyThe author's mother threatened to leave the house if she couldn't have a dog, and they now have two dogs, Sunny and Jinny. Sunny was found ...
06 Apr, 2024, 11.00 PM IST
A year of extremes: From mass migration to 'Barbie' hitting billions, 10 records set in 2023The number of people around the world displaced by conflict or humanitarian crises was already at a record high before the Israel-Gaza war ...
28 Nov, 2023, 06.00 PM IST
Migration, mega-fines and Barbie: records set in 2023India overtook China to become the world's most populous country in mid-2023, accounting for nearly 1.43 billion of Earth's eight billion h...
28 Nov, 2023, 12.45 PM IST
Rs 10,000 fine for violation, max two pets for 2bhk houses in Ghaziabad's new pet policyThe Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) has implemented a comprehensive dog policy to address conflicts between humans and dogs in the ci...
27 Sep, 2023, 02.40 PM IST
Dogs should not suffer due to Darwinian inevitabilityFor many Indians, though, the pie dogs that populate our country have become animals that need to be kept away from human habitations, unle...
29 Apr, 2023, 12.37 AM IST
What's stopping the Asiatic lions of Gir from getting a new home?Gujarat’s refusal to move some of Gir’s lions to Madhya Pradesh despite the death of 24 lions has more to do with politics than the effecti...
20 Oct, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
74 tiger deaths since January drive home poaching, other threatsMadhya Pradesh fares the worst with 19 fatalities.
29 Jun, 2016, 11.48 AM IST
74 tiger deaths since January drive home poaching, other threatsPolice and wildlife authorities seized skins, bones, claws, skeletons, canines and paws of another 16 tigers during this period, taking the...
29 Jun, 2016, 09.51 AM IST
Violent politics in West Bengal disrupting law and orderThe districts of East Midnapore and Murshidabad are on top with 60 killings each, followed by North 24-Parganas with 56 mostly politically ...
02 Jul, 2015, 12.36 PM IST
India scrambles to save tigers from deadly virusIndia is scrambling to protect its beleaguered tiger population after several big cats tested positive for a virus common among dogs but de...
14 Jan, 2014, 05.54 PM IST
Vets to study virus turning tigers into maneatersBritain’s Wildlife Vets International (WVI) plans to study whether a virus common among Indian dogs was infecting tigers of the Sunderbans ...
12 Jun, 2013, 04.14 AM IST
- Tiger authority forms guidelines to deal with man-animal conflicts
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has developed a standard operating procedure (SOP) to deal with emergency arising due to s...
23 Feb, 2013, 03.40 PM IST
Tiger, leopard may be killed if posing danger to humans: NTCATigers and leopards, accorded highest protection under the Wildlife Act, may now be killed with due permission from authorities if they pos...
10 Feb, 2013, 12.27 PM IST
66 tigers dead in 8 monthsStatistics collated from different parts of India by a prominent wildlife NGO show that between January 1 and August 19 this year, at least...
21 Aug, 2009, 03.38 AM IST