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Tribal communities worship tiger in Maharashtra's Nashik
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], November 12 (ANI): The tribal communities residing at the Igatpuri area of Maharashtra's Nashik worship a tiger family as god for decades so that the tigers staying in the nearby forest do not attack the humans or the farm animals.
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3 gunmen killed in northern Burundi: Official
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Bujumbura [ Burundi], November 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Security forces on Wednesday morning killed three gunmen and seized their two guns and ammunition in Matongo district in Kayanza Province, north Burundi, the governor of Kayanza told Xinhua by phone on Wednesday afternoon.
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ITBP seizes many firearms, explosive components, naxal literature from Chh
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New Delhi [India], November 11 (ANI): The Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) in a joint operation with Chhattisgarh police on Thursday morning recovered many firearms, Improvised Explosive Device (IED) components and Naxal literature from a thickly forested area in Chhattisgarh's Rajnan
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Ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India, China representing BASIC Group m
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Glasgow [UK], November 11 (ANI): Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav has chaired a meeting at COP26 in Glasgow, UK in which ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China represented the BASIC Group.
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'Encyclopedia of forest' Tulsi Gowda receives Padma Shri
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New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): Tulsi Gowda, an environmentalist, received the Padma Shri award from the President of India on Monday.
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Eviction drive carried out peacefully in Lumding forest: Assam CM
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Guwahati (Assam) [India], November 8 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that officials peacefully carried out an eviction drive in Lumding forest on Monday.
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MOEFCC Secretary launches COP26 Charter of Actions prepared by TERI in Gla
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Glasgow [Scotland], November 8 (ANI/NewsVoir): "Discussions on climate action must start with those people and areas which are going to have greatest of the impact from climate change," said Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government
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Search team recovers body parts suspected to be of 5-yr old boy who went m
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Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], November 7 (ANI): The search team of police and forest department on Saturday recovered the body parts suspected to be of a five-year-old boy who went missing on Diwali night and believed to have become prey of a leopard in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla.
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Study finds forest fires linked to low birth weight in newborns
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Washington [US], November 6 (ANI): According to a new study, women exposed to smoke from landscape fires during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to babies with low or very low birth weights.
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8 Naxals arrested in Chhattisgarh's Sukma
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Sukma (Chhattisgarh) [India], November 6 (ANI): Eight Naxals were arrested from a forest near Morpalli village under Chintalnar Police Station limits in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police informed on Friday.
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5-year-old boy goes missing in Shimla, mother says leopard attacked her so
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Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], November 6 (ANI): After a five-year-old boy went missing from Shimla's Dhowndale area, his family say a leopard attack the boy, informed Ravi Shankar, DFO Wildlife Wing of Forest Department, Shimla on Friday.
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Odisha: Four cops caught 'smuggling' Teakwood in Police van at Paralakhemu
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Paralakhemundi (Odisha) [India] November 4 (ANI): Odisha forest department personnel nabbed four policemen while they were illegally transporting teak wood in a police van near the Forest Gate under Paralakhemundi Forest Division in Gajapati district on Wednesday.
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