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West Bengal: Sarugara forest officials arrest one with deer skin
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], November 21 (ANI): Sarugara forest officials on early morning of Sunday arrested a man who was spotted with deer skin and 2.1 kgs of pangolin scales from Oodlabari bypass.
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Students of NIT Karnataka design e-bike for forest department
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Mangalore (Karnataka) [India], November 21 (ANI): Students of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) have designed an exclusive e-bike for the forest department.
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Maharashtra: Tigress kills woman forest officer in Tadoba forest
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Chandrapur (Maharashtra) [India], November 20 (ANI): A woman forest officer was killed by a tigress in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra on Saturday.
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Shimla: Residents demand immediate Govt action after leopard kills 2 child
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Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], November 19 (ANI): After the second attack by a leopard on children in the capital city of Shimla within three months, the residents have amped up their demand from the forest department to declare the concerned leopard 'a man eater' and urged the state gov
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Assam: Wild elephant dies due to electrocution in Hojai
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Dispur (Assam) [India], November 17 (ANI): A wild male elephant reportedly died due to electrocution in Assam's Hojai, informed the Divisional Forest Officer, Nagaon South Division, Hojai.
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Doon Expressway: SC stays felling of 11,000 tress till November 26
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 16 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed felling of around 11,000 trees and plants on the Ganeshpur-Dehradun Road (NH-72A) stretch, part of the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor until November 26 and also asked National Green Tribunal (NGT) to decide the plea
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Mullaperiyar Baby Dam: NCP extends support to leader AK Saseendran
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], November 14 (ANI): After the recent controversy over the felling of trees at Mullaperiyar Baby Dam, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Kerala unit said that it will extend full support to its leader and State forest minister AK Saseendran.
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Police recover bodies of 26 Naxals, including six women, after encounter i
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) [India], November 14 (ANI): Gadchiroli police recovered the bodies of 26 Naxalites including six women after an encounter broke out between the police's anti-Naxal C-60 unit and a group of Naxalites in Gyarapatti forest of Korchi Tehsil here, said Superintendent of P
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Maha Home Minister praises police for taking action against Naxals in Gadc
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Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) [India], November 14 (ANI): Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Valse Patil has lauded the action taken against the Naxals in the Gyarapatti forest in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district and said, "he is proud of police."
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Mullaperiyar Dam: Congress demands juidicial inquiry into orders of fellin
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Kochi (Kerala) [India], November 13 (ANI): Demanding a judicial inquiry into felling of trees downstream of Mullaperiyar Baby Dam in Idduki, Congress MLA K Babu said on Saturday that the order by the Kerala forest authority has weakened the state's stand on the issue in the Supreme Court.
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26 Naxalites killed in encounter with police in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) [India], November 13 (ANI): Twenty-six Naxalites were killed in an encounter with the Maharashtra Police in the Gyarapatti forest of Korchi Tehsil in Gadchiroli district, Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police Ankit Goyal said.
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Odisha STF arrests 2 persons with leopard skin in Boudh forest
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Boudh (Odisha) [India], November 12 (ANI): The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police on Wednesday arrested two persons with leopard skin in the Boudh forest.
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