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Adil Hussain: Was chef of my house, saw YouTube recipes to cook for son Actor Adil Hussain has been busy travelling and shooting during the pandemic, getting himself tested for Covid-19 several times Updated: December 20, 2020 8:33:38 am Adil Hussain (Illustration: Suvajit Dey) National Award-winning actor Adil Hussain, 57, was recently seen in the American television series Star Trek: Discovery. He has also featured in international projects such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi Known to straddle the worlds of mainstream and art house cinema, the actor has been busy travelling and shooting during the pandemic, getting himself tested for Covid-19 several times. ....
Assam electric fences take toll, pregnant elephant latest casualty Data shared by the Assam Forest Department show that the state saw 113 elephant deaths due to electrocution between 2009 and September 25, 2020, with several more casualties reported since. Updated: December 18, 2020 8:32:46 am Assam Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya said electrocution was a “dangerous villain”, but there was no easy solution. ELECTRIC fences put up by villagers to protect their crops and homes from wandering pachyderms claimed three more elephants in Assam’s Chirang district this month, with the last one on Wednesday. Officials said the one killed on Wednesday was pregnant. This takes the number of elephants killed in similar incidents since August in the vicinity of the Manas National Park, amid a growing human-elephant conflict, to six. “At least five elephants have been electrocuted in Chirang alone since August. ....
104-yr-old in Assam dies a ‘foreigner’, hoping ‘CAA will solve all’ On Sunday evening, Chandrahar, 104, suffering from a heart disease, who had spent three months in a detention camp for “foreigners” in Assam two years ago, died in his son’s run-down cottage in Boraibasti in Assam’s Cachar district still a “foreigner”. Updated: December 15, 2020 7:32:12 am Das and his wife last week. Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha About six months ago, Nyuti Das remembers her father Chandrahar Das bending over her brother’s phone, his one good eye and the rest of him completely absorbed by a video of a speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Then he looked at Nyuti and said, smiling: “Modi aamar bhogowan (Modi is my god)… He will solve everything. The citizenship law is here. We will all become Indian.” ....
Mexico organisation ropes in Assam’s forest man to replenish its forests Mexico’s Fundación Azteca has signed on Jadav Payeng famous as the ‘forest man of India’ to aid the country’s efforts on sustainable conservation. Updated: December 11, 2020 7:55:14 pm Jadav Payeng s story of how he grew a forest, perturbed by the erosion he witnessed at a sandbar in his home in Assam’s Majuli island as a 16-year-old, is well documented. From single-handedly nurturing a forest to earning the moniker of ‘forest man of India’, there are many feathers in Jadav Payeng’s cap. The latest is a collaboration with the Mexican non-profit organisation, Fundación Azteca, with whom he is sharing his knowledge as an environmental activist and the gumption needed to grow a forest. ....
Assam: Two elephants die of anthrax, authorities try to trace source Anthrax is a highly infectious zoonotic disease found primarily in herbivorous animals. Following the two deaths, the forest department has launched a vaccination drive and is trying to trace the source of the infection Updated: December 10, 2020 8:40:08 pm Two elephants died of anthrax in Assam s Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary. (Representational image / Express) On December 3, a female elephant calf was found dead, blood oozing out of its mouth, trunk and anus, in the Joypur range of Assam’s Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary. Two days later, about a kilometre away, another elephant carcass a female adult was found in a similar condition. Fearing an outbreak of the anthrax disease, samples were collected by the authorities, and both the pachyderms were cremated at the spot shortly after they were found. ....