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Bichhiya (Bahraich), April 9 (UNI) Panic has gripped villages in the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division as incidents of leopard attacks show no sign of slowing down. Two separate attacks reported this week have left several villagers seriously injured, intensifying fear in the region, officials said on Thursday. The first incident took place late Tuesday night in Kutiya village under Rampurwa Gram Panchayat in the Nishangada range. A leopard entered the house of a villager, Indal Sahani, around 11 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 9 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear next week an application which raised the issue of a forest guard being killed in Madhya Pradesh after being run over by a tractor-trolley allegedly run by sand miners. The matter was mentioned before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, which is hearing a suo motu case titled 'In Re: Illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary and threat to endangered aquatic wildlife'. The counsel, who mentioned the m ...Read More >
A DAY before Assam votes in the Assembly polls, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) eastern zone bench on Wednesday ruled that the Assam government's order, which sought to deploy 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for elections, suffered from "patent illegality" and was violative of the Biological Diversity Act and the AFPF Act, 1986. The NGT also refused to recall or modify its April 2 interim order which directed the Assam government to stay operation of its order se ...Read More >
Leh, April 8: In a bid to strengthen Ladakh's tourism sector and promote its rich cultural heritage, the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh, Vinai Kumar Saxena, today launched the official Ladakh Tourism portal (https://tourism.ladakh.gov.in/) at the Lieutenant Governor's Secretariat in the presence of venerable rinpoches, monks and senior government officials. On the occasion, the Lieutenant Governor also launched the official portal for the Sacred Exposition of the Holy Reli ...Read More >
Leh, Apr 8 (PTI) To strengthen Ladakh's tourism sector and promote its rich cultural heritage, Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Wednesday launched the official portals for Ladakh Tourism and sacred exposition of the holy relics of Lord Buddha, an official said. The portals -- https://tourism.ladakh.gov.in/ and https://tathagata.co.in/ -- were launched at the Lt Governor's Secretariat in the presence of venerable rinpoches, monks and senior government officials, a Lok Bhavan spokesperso ...Read More >
BENGALURU: To ensure the safety of zoo keepers, veterinarians and animals, proper training and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) should be in place for all zoos. This was one of the observations made at a meeting of representatives of zoo managements of Karnataka, heads of the forest department and officials of the Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) held recently. The officials were instructed to look for the best practices in zoos of other states and get details of operations from the Centra ...Read More >
Delhi Dehradun Expressway: The Delhi-Dehradun Expressway is not just a road, but a new model of speed, development, and environmental balance. The mountains are now truly coming closer to Delhi The journey from Delhi to Dehradun is no longer just a distance, but an experience. The mountains are about to come closer than ever before, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway on April 14th. Once this expressway opens, the 5-6 hour journey will be reduced t ...Read More >
KOZHIKODE: Kerala-based IT professional G S Sharanya, who survived four days alone in the dense forests near Tadiandamol in Karnataka's Kodagu district after losing her way, says the experience has not shaken her passion for trekking -- if anything, it has strengthened it.Speaking from her home in Nadapuram, the 36-year-old recalled the ordeal as one marked not by fear, but by moments of stillness and natural beauty. Despite being stranded with no food, limited water and no phone connectivity, s ...Read More >
KOZHIKODE: Kerala's long-pending tunnel project received a decisive legal clearance on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to halt the Kozhikode-Wayanad twin tunnel project, dismissing petitions challenging its environmental approval and effectively allowing construction to proceed. A Bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi upheld an earlier verdict of the Kerala High Court, which had validated the environmental clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest ...Read More >
G.S. Sharanya was located around 5 pm deep within the Pattighat Reserve Forest, near Tadiyandamol, the highest peak in the district. Rescuers spotted her near a rock by a stream, where she had taken shelter to stay visible and maintain access to water. The search had been concentrated around the reserve forest, a dense, trackless stretch of woodland on the far side of the Tadiyandamol peak, which borders Kerala. The terrain is a sharp contrast to the more frequented trekking routes on the other ...Read More >
Kozhikode: She stayed four days alone in a rain-soaked forest, with no food, a mobile phone going dry, and only fireflies to keep her company. Kerala trekker G S Sharanya, who was successfully traced in the deep forests of Tadiandamol hills in Karnataka's Kodagu district on Sunday night after losing her way during trekking, says she wants to go into the forest again. She emerged from the wild not with fear, but with a story etched in resilience and quiet wonder. While speaking from her home in ...Read More >
Kozhikode (Kerala), Apr 6 (PTI) She stayed four days alone in a rain-soaked forest, with no food, mobile phone going dry and only fireflies to keep her company. Kerala trekker G S Sharanya, who was successfully traced in the deep forests of Tadiandamol hills in Karnataka's Kodagu district on Sunday night after losing her way during trekking, says she wants to go into forest again. She emerged from the wild not with fear, but with a story etched in resilience and quiet wonder. While speaking f ...Read More >
MADIKERI: Surviving on just a 500 ml bottle of water, with no mobile network and fading chances of contact, 36-year-old Kerala trekker G S Sharanya spent four days alone in the dense forests of Karnataka's Kodagu district, an ordeal she says she endured without fear. Sharanya, an IT professional from Kozhikode, had gone missing on April 2 after getting separated from her trekking group while descending Tadiandamol, the highest peak in Kodagu. What followed was a four-day struggle through thick f ...Read More >
Kozhikode: "I waited for three days beside a stream, hoping someone would come searching for me. I thought at least a drone might spot me. I stayed in an open space so I could be easily located. But no one came. Slowly, my hope began to fade," recalled Sharanya, the 36-year-old IT professional from Nadapuram, who was found safe on Sunday after going missing during a trek to Tadiandamol peaks in Coorg. Sharanya, a 36-year-old IT professional from Nadapuram, has lived through an ordeal that teste ...Read More >
Srinagar- A growing porcupine menace is damaging saffron fields in Pampore, raising concern among farmers in Kashmir's famed saffron belt, even as the government acknowledged the scale of the problem and outlined steps to address it. The issue came up in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly after National Conference MLA Hasnain Masoodi moved a calling attention notice, flagging damage to the high-value crop in the south Kashmir town. Responding in the House, Forest Minister Javed Ahmad Rana said fie ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The proposed Shree Jagannath International Airport in Puri on Saturday received stage-1 environmental clearance from the ministry of forest, environment and climate change (MoEFCC), crucial to fast-track the ambitious greenfield project.Last year in June, after the forest ministry gave in-principle approval to the project on May 6, the expert appraisal committee (EAC) recommended environmental clearance. The proposed airport will have an estimated passenger-handling capacity of 4.6 ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday announced a series of highway development and infrastructure projects for six states -- Odisha, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Rajasthan -- valued at Rs 3,200 crore to improve connectivity, road safety, and boost regional economies. In Odisha, an allocation of Rs 447.11 crore has been approved for the upgradation of the 103.52-km Kurumpuri-Raj Khariar section across NH-353 and NH-5 ...Read More >
A female Russian photographer at the centre of a scandal over painting an elephant bright pink is 'facing death threats'. Julia Buruleva, 47, has been hit by a storm of protest following the animal's death four months after her controversial shoot. She insists the Indian elephant expired from 'old age' - but admits she was warned her project was contentious when she sought 'half naked' local models to pose in pink in the stunt. The Russian woman has now launched - with mixed results - an onli ...Read More >
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed an Assam government order directing the deployment of around 1,600 personnel of the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duties, observing that the move raises serious environmental concerns. Invoking the precautionary principle, the tribunal directed the State government to "desist from violating the provisions" of environmental laws and ordered that "operation of the impugned order... is stayed till further orders". In its April 2 ord ...Read More >
Guwahati: National Green Tribunal (NGT), in an interim order issued on Saturday, stayed the Assam govt's directive to divert 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel to assist the police during the upcoming assembly elections.The govt order, issued by the special chief secretary, had instructed AFPF staff to report to the additional director general of police by April 3.A two-member NGT Eastern Zone bench, comprising judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Ishwar S ...Read More >
Guwahati: Even as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has put an immediate stay on the Assam government's decision to deploy over 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel for election duty, the state's forest department appears to be preparing for a legal pushback instead of compliance -- raising serious questions over intent and priorities. A two-member bench of the NGT's Eastern Zone, comprising Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and Expert Member Ishwar Singh, on Thursday stayed the March 19 ...Read More >
Wayanad (Kerala) | A wild elephant, fondly called 'Muttikkomban', was captured on Friday morning after it posed a threat to people and crops in the Vadakkanad area, forest officials said. The operation was carried out on the orders of the chief wildlife warden following repeated complaints from residents, they said. For nearly a month, the elephant had been entering farms at night, breaking solar fences and damaging crops. Forest teams made several attempts to drive it back into the forest, b ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a move aimed at strengthening wildlife conservation in the capital, the Delhi government has sanctioned the creation of nine Wildlife Inspector posts in the Forests and Wildlife Department. The newly created positions, classified under Level-6 of the 7th Central Pay Commission pay matrix with a salary range of Rs 35,400 to Rs 1,12,400, have been officially notified. The decision addresses a long-pending shortage of dedicated enforcement staff within the department. Previously, onl ...Read More >
Senior advocate Nikhil Goel pointed out that some of the villages in the area were entirely dependent on sand mining. File The Supreme Court of India on Thursday (April 2, 2026) said the sand mining mafia, who carry "better weapons than the police" and kill those who come in their way with impunity, were the "modern dacoits" of Chambal. The oral observation from a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was in response to an oft-repeated submission from the Madhya Pradesh government th ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Delhi government has approved the creation of nine posts of wildlife inspector through direct recruitment in the Department of Forests and Wildlife, officials said on Thursday. Deploying dedicated inspectors would help in protecting Delhi's biodiversity, and will eventually end wildlife vulnerabilities in our urban ecosystems, said Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa. "The government is transforming environmental governance through long-overdue foundatio ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The Delhi Government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, has approved the creation of nine posts for Wildlife Inspector (Direct Recruitment) in the Forests & Wildlife Department. These posts have been placed in Level-6 (Rs 35,400-₹Rs 1,12,400) of the Pay Matrix under the 7th Central Pay Commission and have been notified. Also Read | Honey Singh and Badshah's Controversial Song Faces Delhi High Court Action, Ordered Removed from Platforms. Thi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The Delhi Government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, has approved the creation of nine posts for Wildlife Inspector (Direct Recruitment) in the Forests & Wildlife Department. These posts have been placed in Level-6 (Rs 35,400-₹Rs 1,12,400) of the Pay Matrix under the 7th Central Pay Commission and have been notified. This initiative reflects the government's strong commitment to wildlife conservation and biodiversity protection amidst urba ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed an Assam government order proposing the deployment of 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duty, days ahead of the Assembly polls scheduled for April 9. The development follows a report by Northeast Now that first flagged the issue, pointing to the large-scale deployment of frontline forest personnel from core duties such as anti-poaching patrols, prevention of illegal logging, ...Read More >
Mumbai: 'Anupamaa' actor Rupali Ganguly, who has consistently spoken up for animal rights, condemned a Jaipur content creator for painting an elephant pink for the sake of a photoshoot and appeals to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take strict action. Mourning the demise of the elephant, that reportedly passed away after the photoshoot, Rupali wrote, "As someone who shares your respect for wildlife and as a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India), I write wit ...Read More >
A group of retired Indian Administrative Service and Indian Forest Service officials and wildlife conservationists has raised "serious concerns" over the Assam government deploying around 1,600 personnel of the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) on election duty. An Assam government official confirmed to The Hindu that it was the "first time" forest personnel were requisitioned for election duty. Assam votes in a single phase on April 9. In a joint representation addressed to authorities on ...Read More >
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