Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Tuesday reviewed the status of hydropower projects in the state, focussing on forest clearance, techno-economic clearance, land acquisition and environmental clearance.
An 11-foot-long King Cobra was rescued from a house at Bangra village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district. Later the forest officials released it into the Dukra wildlife range in the district Tuesday morning.
The Uttar Pradesh Police and the Forest Department are continuing their search for two wolves under 'Operation Bhediya' in Bahraich district. The forest department had earlier caught four wolves. The pack of wolves is said to be behind several attacks on villagers in the region.
Amidst the ongoing 'Operation Bhediya' in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, a five-year-old girl was injured on Tuesday in the fresh wolf attack in a village in Bahraich.
"The information that two cows were attacked by leopards turned out to be false. It was just a rumour. It's a very sensitive matter, and people are scared, so we are here to meet the villagers as well, and we are telling them how to coordinate in such circumstances," he told ANI.
"We had set up the cage for 4 days, and our team had been constantly combing and searching the area. Hence, we caught the leopard yesterday around 8:30 pm. No casualty has been reported," said the UP Divisional Forest Officer.
The wolves have killed eight people in the area. So far four have been caught and search for two more is underway. Seven children and a woman have been killed in wolf attacks in Bahraich in the past two months.
The Forest Department team on Saturday again laid traps to capture the remaining two wolves out of the six that killed eight people and injured 15 in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh in past two months.