Senior IFS officer S Prabhakaran has taken charge as the new director of Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Mysuru. His immediate challenge is to tackle summer forest fires and ensure adequate water supply to wildlife. Bandipur Tiger Reserve has the highest number of tigers in Karnataka.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has placed an order for 500 twin waste bins to be installed in the commercial areas of Bhubaneswar. The bins will be fitted with QR codes for monitoring waste lifting. Read more.
A day after Aman, an adult male Bengal tiger was translocated to Ludhiana zoo from Chhatbir Zoo, Zirakpur, a city-based activist wrote to the chief wildlife warden, asking to send a mate for him.
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A Delhi court on Saturday granted exemption to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from personal appearance for the day in connection with a complaint filed by the ED against him over non-compliance with its summonses in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy. India News | Delhi Court Exempts Kejriwal from Personal Appearance for Saturday in Case of Evading ED Summons.