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RANCHI: Tiger pugmarks found on the very first day of the tiger census have lent significant weight to forest officials' claims about the presence of big cats in the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR). The census began across Jharkhand on December 15. According to officials, it is being carried out across 31 territorial forest divisions and five protected wildlife divisions in the state, including major conservation areas such as the Palamu Tiger Reserve and the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. The exercise ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: In a first, college and school students will participate in the upcoming All India Tiger Estimation 2025-26 at Odisha's Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary scheduled to begin in the second week of November. A total of 46 students from Dunguri College, Kamgaon College and Lakhanpur High School are currently undergoing training for the national-level census. "The students are being trained in sampling techniques, data gathering, recognising herbivores and carnivores, and detecting indicator ...Read More >
Chandrapur: Barely a week after a farmer was killed by a tiger in Dhaba forest range, another fatal attack has deepened fears among villagers. A 45-year-old woman, identified as Alka Pendor of Ganesh Pipri village in Gondpipri taluka, was mauled to death by a tiger on Sunday evening while working in an agricultural field.According to forest department sources, the incident occurred when Pendor, a farm labourer, was tending crops in a field near the village. The tiger pounced on her, killing her ...Read More >
Chandrapur: Barely a week after a farmer was killed by a tiger in Dhaba forest range, another fatal attack has deepened fears among villagers. A 45-year-old woman, identified as Alka Pendor of Ganesh Pipri village in Gondpipri taluka, was mauled to death by a tiger on Sunday evening while working in an agricultural field.According to forest department sources, the incident occurred when Pendor, a farm labourer, was tending crops in a field near the village. The tiger pounced on her, killing her ...Read More >
Lucknow: A 26-year-old farmer was killed by a tiger near Katarniaghat Wildlife Division in Bahraich on Monday. The attack has triggered fear among villagers as human-wildlife conflicts continue to rise in the region.According to locals, the victim, Indal, a resident of Harkhapur village under Murtiha police station limits, stepped out of his home around 8 pm to relieve himself in the fields, just 200 metres away from his house. A tiger lurking in the bushes pounced on him, dragged him into the f ...Read More >
BIJNOR: A 36-year-old woman, Meera Devi, was killed in a leopard attack at Issepur village near Najibabad town here Sunday. This is the fourth fatal attack suspectedly by the same animal in the past 12 days, and the 36th in the last two-and-a-half years in the district.Angry villagers took the body to the office of Najibabad divisional forest officer (DFO) and held a protest, demanding immediate capture of the felines. Police swiftly arrived and pacified the crowd.Meera Devi was collecting fodde ...Read More >
Mysuru, September 14: A shocking incident unfolded in Chikkahejjuru village, Hunsur taluk, Karnataka, where a woman allegedly murdered her husband and fabricated a tiger attack to claim Rs 15 lakh in government compensation. Sallapuri, 40, allegedly poisoned her husband Venkataswamy, 45, on September 9. She then buried his body in a five-foot cow dung pit near their home, covering it with dung, straw, and leaves. The couple, originally from Bidadi, worked on a 4.1-acre arecanut farm owned by Be ...Read More >
Lucknow: A three-month-old girl was killed in an alleged wolf attack in Bahraich on Friday, reigniting fear in the region that witnessed a spate of such attacks last year.The incident occurred around 3 pm in Bhauri Bahorwa village under Baundi police station. According to the victim's mother, Rani, she was sleeping in the verandah with her daughter Sandhya when a wolf suddenly snatched the baby from her lap and fled. Her husband, Dinesh Tiwari, chased the predator with a stick, but the wolf disa ...Read More >
Patna: A tiger that killed a farmer on Monday in Ghoda Ghat of Govardhana forest range was tranquilised and captured on Tuesday morning by Valmiki Tiger Reserve forest officials, forest conservator and director Neshamani K said. Officials had been monitoring the animal since the incident in a paddy field. At 7.30am on Tuesday, it was spotted at Nariya Sareh, near where it had killed 65-year-old farmer Mathura Mahto and injured tiger tracker Vijay Uraon, 30. The rescue team tranquilised the tiger ...Read More >
Kinnaur: A cloudburst was reported in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district on Wednesday evening. Due to the cloudburst, a sudden flash flood struck Hojis Lungpa Nala. Notably, the site was an active road construction zone under CPWD towards Gangthang Bralam. A rescue operation was launched to rescue the stranded civilians. The Indian Army was also called in to help the local administration. The Army has deployed its new generation equipment to assist in the operation. The Logistics Drone High Al ...Read More >
BENGALURU: The death of two 10-day-old tiger cubs and the disappearance of their mother for the past two days in the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS), 227 km from Bengaluru, has alarmed the forest department and the conservation community. On Monday, a forest foot-patrol team found a dead cub near Kirubanakallagudda in the Holemurdatti range of CWS. The following day, another cub was found dead a few metres away. The carcasses, a male and a female, were estimated to be at least three days old. ...Read More >
The car had a Maharashtra number plate. Luggage was tied to the roof of the vehicle, which made officials believe that a family had come from Maharashtra to visit Agra. A shocking and heartbreaking incident has come to light from the Taj Mahal complex in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. An elderly man was found unconscious and tied inside a locked car parked near the western gate. The incident has raised serious questions about human sensitivity and responsibility. According to Aaj Tak, the man had been ...Read More >
Nizamabad: Residents along the Nizamabad and Rajanna Sircilla district border are on edge after repeated sightings of a tiger, identified by its pugmarks as "S12." The forest department has stepped up efforts to track the animal's movements, deploying additional camera traps deep inside the reserve forests. On Thursday, a calf was found dead in Pakala village of Sirikonda mandal, prompting fears of another tiger attack. However, following an onsite inspection, district forest officer B. Nikitha ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Dairy company Heritage Foods Limited on Thursday reported a sharp decline in net profit for the first quarter of FY26, as the company posted a net profit of Rs 40.5 crore for the April-June quarter, down 30.7 per cent from Rs 58.4 crore reported in the same period previous year (Q1 FY25). The fall in profit came despite a 10.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth in revenue, which rose to Rs 1,136.7 crore from Rs 1,032.6 crore in a year-ago period, according to it ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The tiger population has increased from 33 to 36 individuals in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR). These details were announced by the Forest Department after the successful completion of Phase IV Tiger Monitoring for the year 2024-25 at ATR. The results reveal a significant and encouraging increase in the tiger population, highlighting the impact [...] Hyderabad: The tiger population has increased from 33 to 36 individuals in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR). These details were announc ...Read More >
Munnar: The residential areas of Old Munnar are once again gripped by fear as leopard sightings have been reported near human settlements. An inspection by the Forest Department and the Rapid Response Team (RRT) confirmed the presence of a leopard through the discovery of pugmarks in the area. The animal was reportedly spotted by passersby on Thursday night and again on Friday morning near the KDH Club locality, an area where many tourists are also accommodated. Children playing outside their h ...Read More >
Mysuru: Forest officials in Mysuru launched a rescue operation on Tuesday in Chakahalli in HD Kote after villagers alerted them to the presence of a big cat. The investigation by the forest personnel confirmed that the big cat was prowling in the area. Local foresters, along with personnel attached to the Special Tiger Protection Force and Leopard Task Force, launched the combing operation and placed a cage, besides fixing trap cameras. Drone cameras and tamed elephants will be used for the ope ...Read More >
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