Tigers
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Crackdown on slaughterhouses forces lions, tigers to survive on white meat in Lucknow
India | Mar 24, 2017, 11:04 AM ISTThe crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses and meat shops by the Yogi Adityanath-led government is forcing lions and tigers of Lucknow Zoo to eat chicken and mutton.
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India lost over 100 tigers this year: Govt
India | Dec 05, 2016, 09:39 PM ISTEnvironment Minister Anil Madhav Dave today said that over 100 tigers have died in various parts of the country since January this year. "The number of tigers died from January 2016 till date is106 as
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Number of tigers rises for first time in 100 years; India leads tally
India | May 03, 2016, 09:30 PM ISTNew Delhi: In what marks a turnaround from the estimates that have been made so far, the number of tigers in India has gone up to 2,226, the Parliament was informed today. In the year
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Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar urged to help protect tigers
Bollywood | Aug 04, 2015, 10:29 PM ISTMumbai: In a bid to increase the tiger population, the Maharashtra government wants Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar to be 'brand ambassadors' for a tiger project.Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said he
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NGT asks West Bengal govt to demolish illegal structures in Sunderbans
India | Jan 23, 2015, 12:33 PM ISTKolkata: The National Green Tribunal has directed the West Bengal government to demolish illegal constructions coming up in the Sunderbans, habitat of the Royal Bengal tigers and the world's largest mangrove forest. The tribunal's East
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Black tigers unique to Odisha on the verge of extinction; 28 remain
India | Jan 23, 2015, 09:24 AM ISTNew Delhi: While the number of tigers has shot up, black tigers, unique to Odisha are on the edge of extinction.Odish's melanistic tiger - a rare gene pool on which the black stripes are far
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NGO opposes move to shift tigers from MP to Sariska Reserve
India | Apr 12, 2013, 01:26 PM ISTBhopal, Apr 12: Protesting the proposed move of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to shift few tigers from Madhya Pradesh to Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan to arrest their dwindling population in the desert state,
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Bangalore Surgeons Peform 6-Hour Dental Surgery On Two Tigers
India | Sep 11, 2010, 03:01 PM ISTIn a pioneering effort, a five-member team of surgeons performed a six-hour dental surgery to ease the pain on two tigers from Bannerghatta National Park, reports Mirror. The team of five surgeons needed close to