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India | September 18, 2019 11:16 ISTThe Delhi Police "detained" the jumbo along with its mahout, Saddam, from Yamuna Pusta area in the national capital around 3 am, he said.
The Delhi Police "detained" the jumbo along with its mahout, Saddam, from Yamuna Pusta area in the national capital around 3 am, he said.
The Esala Perahera festival (also known as the Festival of the Tooth) is an annual Buddhist festival celebrated with elegant costumes, performers and decorated elephants in Kandy, located in central Sri Lanka.
States like Karnataka and Chhattisgarh have reaped benefits of Haathi Mitra Dal that have proved instrumental in preventing conflict between wild elephants and villagers. In Jharkhand, such groups will be formed under Forest Department.
The woman had brought the tusks from Assam, concealed inside her side bag, under instructions from her husband and was about to hand over the same to him in the station itself.
A herd of nine elephants was passing through Birhor Para locality when some villagers shouted to alert people. On hearing their screams, the family fled towards the village and the family came face to face with theherd.
This is the second incident of electrocution of wild tuskers in Dudhwa buffer zone. On July 8, 2011, three wild tuskers-- a male, female and their calf-- were killed due to electrocution.
"If a family head dies following attack by elephants, children of that family will get free education in government schools," said the statement issued by the office of Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
Forest officials in Uttar Pradesh who have been grappling with the problem of two wild tuskers wandering in the western part of the state have not even heard of the technique of elephant whisperers that can tame these wild giants.
A 72-year-old man has been trampled to death by an elephant in Burgur forest here while he was herding cattle home, police said Friday.
As many as 369 persons were killed and 207 injured in wild elephant attacks in the last four years in Odisha, said a Minister on Tuesday.
A 10-year-old girl and her mother were on Tuesday trampled to death by elephants in Jharkhand's Giridih district.
The elephants, who have travelled from Nepal to Pilibhit and now Bareilly, had reached Mandanpur village in Bareilly on Friday night, which is around 4 km from Rampur. An alert has been sounded on the Rampur border.
Assam Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Thursday sought the intervention of the Ministry of Environment to stop the transportation of four elephants to Ahmedabad for the July 4 Rath Yatra procession.
The Madras High Court has directed the principal chief conservator of forests and the chief wildlife warden to immediately take possession of a female elephant allegedly being used for begging by the wife of a mahout.
Nothing haunts like a death of a loved one, and the viral video is proof enough that a demise scars the animals as much as it does with the humans.
The incident took place on Tuesday night when the victim, Tyofil Tirky (55), was walking towards his home in Dabkala village under Tapkara forest range bordering with Odisha after attending a family function nearby, divisional forest officer Krishna Kumar Jadhav said.
A group of American tourists had witnessed eight men violently beating an elephant at Amber Fort in June last year, and the animal is still being forced to give rides.
Non-rectification of sagging lines and non-cabling of transmission lines led to the tragedy in Meramundali section of Dhenkanal range.
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