19+ hour, 40+ min ago   (12+ words) The second batch of Dasara elephants arrived at Mysuru Palace on Sunday....

20+ hour, 54+ min ago   (78+ words) The Hindu Stray dogs have long been a menace on Madurai’s streets. Now, freely roaming cattle have added to the problem, posing a risk to pedestrians and motorists at residential areas and busy junctions. Their presence is a daily ordeal…...

1+ day, 29+ min ago   (359+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 03:46 pm IST - CHENNAI A five-year-old elephant named ‘Durga’ from Assam is being brought to the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple in Tamil Nadu and is expected to reach the temple late on Sunday (September 13, 2026). The transfer, cleared by the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (412+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 02:06 pm IST - Bhubaneswar The Odisha government constituted a five-member technical committee to oversee the care of five baby orangutans rescued from Balasore district, officials said on Sunday (September 13, 2026). “The baby orangutans are at present kept at the Nandankanan…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (209+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 11:08 am IST - CHENNAI Can you picture a dog being stolen right under the nose of its pet parent and the latter being a mute witness to the thievery? One does not have to jog their imagination to picture…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (496+ words) Published - September 12, 2026 07:12 pm IST - GUWAHATI An eastern Assam-based conservationist has urged the Supreme Court-appointed High-Powered Committee to halt the transfer of four captive elephants from Assam to Tamil Nadu. In a letter to the committee’s Chairperson on Friday (September 11, 2026), Rohit…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (541+ words) Published - September 12, 2026 07:00 am IST - Thiruvananthapuram Intensifying vaccination of dogs and ensuring that people bitten by dogs receive timely and complete rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) could save far more lives in Keralam than routine pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) vaccination of children, according…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (341+ words) Published - September 11, 2026 05:54 am IST - GUWAHATI Days after wildlife veterinarians treated a female elephant’s trunk trapped in a wire-mesh snare on the fringes of western Assam’s Raimona National Park, a sub-adult elephant was freed from a truck tyre stuck around its neck....

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (155+ words) Updated - September 09, 2026 10:06 pm IST - TIRUPPUR A forest guard and two others were arrested following seizure of a pair of elephant tusks from a house near Amaravathy Nagar in Tiruppur district on Wednesday. Forest guard A. Mariappan (49) of Kujipatti Beat in Udumalpet…...

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