3 held with elephant tusks, leopard skin in Odisha

The Project Elephant Division of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute of India, organized a two-day national workshop on "Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Tracks" at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, on 10-11 March 2026, according to an official release.

Divisional Forest Officer Avinash Pandey, while speaking to ANI, said, "We found a 3-4 days-old (leopard) cub in the Chhajlet area. We rescued it and tried to reunite it with its mother. We kept it for 36 hours, but couldn't find its mother. So, we sent it to the deer park for care..."

The West Bengal Police Special Task Force arrested two Bangladeshi nationals near the Bongaon border area in connection with the murder of activist Sharif Osman Hadi in Bangladesh.

Speaking to ANI, Arshad said excessive exposure to unfiltered information on social media can negatively affect children's mental and emotional development. He added that a proper system is needed to regulate such exposure and expressed confidence that the government recognised the issue, which is why it announced the move.

During the Budget presentation, Siddaramaiah announced that in accordance with the revised transfer rules of the Excise Department, transfers of Group-C cadre officers, including Excise Inspectors, Excise Sub-Inspectors, and Excise Head Constables/Constables, have been carried out through digital counselling.