As many as 600 elephants have been killed due to electrocution in India from 2009-10 to 2019-20 with Karnataka accounting for 116 of the deaths, second only to Odisha (117). Officials warn that constant pressure of development work in elephant ranges and climate change may pose more challenges to conservation.
If the BJP had hoped to garner support of the farmers after PM Narendra Modi's sudden decision to repeal the three contentious farm laws, it doesn't seem to be happening and the saffron party is itself to blame for the situation. Many of the farmers, who were here to take part in the 'Kisan Mahapanchayat', organised by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, on Monday, though welcomed the
The families of the farmers, who lost their members in the violence during a protest by the farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh last month, welcomed the decision to repeal the farm laws but said that had it been scrapped earlier, their loved ones would have still been alive. "The decision is too late..it is good but it will not bring back my son...nothing can
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had yet another brush with the Uttar Pradesh police on Wednesday while trying to proceed to Agra to meet the family of a youth from SC community, a sanitation worker, who died in police custody there on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Oct 15: India recorded 16,862 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 3,40,37,592 on Friday, while the national Covid recovery rate increased to 98.07 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry's data.