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Odisha: Police seize 2 kg IEDs from Kandhamal forests
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Kandhamal district police team in Odisha thwarted an attack plan by Maoists when they seized 2 kg of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near Tilakpanga forest in the Gochhapada police station area.
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Mizoram police rescue 24 exotic animals; accused arrested
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Mizoram police have rescued around 24 exotic animals, including snakes, turtles, and monkeys, from a vehicle at the Kanhmun police check post, near the Mizoram-Tripura border, officials said on Thursday.
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10-foot crocodile crawls out of canal in UP's Bulandshahr, rescued by fore
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
A 10-foot-long crocodile, which had crawled out of the canal passing near Narora Ganga Ghat in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, was rescued by the state forest department and released into the water on Thursday.
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J-K: Rajouri forest fire disrupts normal life, locals complain of suffocat
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
A severe dry spell and soaring temperatures have sparked a series of forest fires in the Chingus Block and various other forest areas in the Nowshera Sub-Division of Rajouri District of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Himachal Pradesh records 1,033 forest fires since onset of summer, HC take
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Speaking about the forest fires in the state, PK Rana, Additional Principal Conservator, Forest Management Department in the state said, "1033 forest fire incidents have been reported this year till date in Himachal Pradesh. We have been able to control most of the fire incidents. There a
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Forest fire incidents on rise in J-K's Rajouri Forest Division this summer
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Incidents of forest fire in the areas in the ammu and Kashmir's Rajouri Forest Division have been on the rise this summer season compared to last year, says an official.
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Karnataka government to pay Rs 80 lakh bill of PM Modi's stay in Mysuru
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre on Monday said the state government will pay the hospitality bill worth Rs 80 lakh of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Mysuru, which he took last year in April.
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Betel leaf farmer shot at in Tripura's Dhalai
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon while the famer, who frequently collects betel leaves in the forest, was going about his routine.
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Chile authorities arrest firefighter for allegedly starting deadly fire in
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Reportedly, several fires broke out simultaneously on February 2 around the coastal city of Vina del Mar, 70 miles (110km) northwest of Chile's capital Santiago, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
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Two Naxalites killed in encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in the forest of Jappemarka and Kamkanar on Sunday, police said.
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PoGB leaders organize conference to oppose forest land leases to Punjab bu
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Leaders from Awami Action Committee (AAC) belonging to Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) on Thursday organized a conference at the Gilgit Press Club, criticizing the local government for leasing forest lands of PoGB to private business owners of Punjab Province, local news outlet fro
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J-K: To combat forest fires, locals convert pine needles into a livelihood
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Jammu & Kashmir Rural Livelihoods Mission and women of Self Help Groups from Chenani in Udhampur district have come up with an innovative method to combat forest fires.
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