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December 1st, 2008 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
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Bhubaneswar, Dec 1 (IANS) Orissa government has directed all officials to be on alert and take measures to prevent an outbreak of bird flu in the state after the disease hit areas ...
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November 27th, 2008 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 27 (IANS) A seven-year-old girl has been killed by a leopard in an Uttar Pradesh village adjoining the Katarniyaghat forest reserve, an official said Thursday."The leopard Wednesday night strayed into ...
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November 25th, 2008 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 25 (IANS) Much to the surprise of officials and locals, pugmarks of tigers have been found in an Uttar Pradesh village which has no forest around, an official said Tuesday."Pugmarks ...
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November 25th, 2008 - 5:14 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 25 (IANS) Pugmarks (paw prints) of tigers were found in an Uttar Pradesh village which is devoid of forests, much to the surprise of officials and locals, forest officer said ...
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November 24th, 2008 - 9:23 pm ICT by IANS
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Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) A forest officer was critically injured Monday after a wild elephant attacked him in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal, officials said. Three men have died and one ...
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November 24th, 2008 - 3:03 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 24 (IANS) An adult tigress has triggered panic in a village adjoining Uttar Pradesh's Dudhwa Tiger reserve, state forest officials said Monday.Attacking several locals in Kishanpur village of Lakhimpur district, ...
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November 20th, 2008 - 7:32 pm ICT by IANS
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Guwahati, Nov 20, (IANS) A leopard cub was rescued and released Wednesday night in Assam's eastern Digboi town, officials said here Thursday.The animal was around eight months old and was freed near ...
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November 18th, 2008 - 2:57 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 18 (IANS) Five people have been booked for killing a spotted deer in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district, state forest officials said Tuesday."We recovered the carcass of the deer from ...
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November 14th, 2008 - 4:52 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 14 (IANS) A man-eating tiger has strayed into a village in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, following which the state forest department has launched an intensive combing operation, officials said Friday."We ...
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November 11th, 2008 - 3:08 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 11 (IANS) A jackal killed an old man and injured 24 people in a village in Uttar Pradesh, state forest officials said Tuesday."We have learnt that the jackal attacked and ...
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November 8th, 2008 - 1:12 pm ICT by ANI
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Coonoor (Tamil Nadu), Nov 8 (ANI): Forest officials in Tamil Nadus Coonoor town have rescued a trapped leopard and released the big cat into the wilds.
Officials said farmers trapped the leopard, ...
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November 5th, 2008 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 5 (IANS) A 10-feet-long python weighing nearly 50 Kg was killed by a group of villagers in Uttar Pradesh, state forest officials said Wednesday."The villagers in Sultanpur district killed the ...
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November 4th, 2008 - 12:48 pm ICT by IANS
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Bhubaneswar, Nov 4 (IANS) South Korean steel major Posco has offered to grow two million trees at the site of its proposed steel plant in Orissa to compensate for the loss of ...
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November 3rd, 2008 - 8:16 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Nov 3 (IANS) Six women from West Bengal were Monday nabbed with as many as 200 tortoises in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district, a police official said."Acting on a tip-off, we nabbed ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 31 (IANS) Two people were arrested Friday for killing a peacock in Uttar Pradesh, state forest officials said."The incident took place Thursday when two brothers killed a peacock after netting ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 2:23 pm ICT by IANS
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Tezpur (Assam), Oct 31 (IANS) A Royal Bengal tiger was rescued from a well in a village near here, officials said Friday.The tiger was trapped in the well for almost 24 hours ...
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October 29th, 2008 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 29 (IANS) In yet another incident of attack by wild animals, three people were injured when a leopard pounced upon them in Uttar Pradesh, an official said Wednesday."The incident took ...
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October 28th, 2008 - 3:42 pm ICT by IANS
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Ahmedabad, Oct 28 (IANS) Gujarat forest officers have set a bait to catch a lioness and three of its cubs who have strayed far beyond their natural habitat in the Gir sanctuary, ...
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October 27th, 2008 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 27 (IANS) Seven people were caught smuggling out a rare species of snakes from Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district to Nepal, a forest official said Monday."Acting on a tip-off, we nabbed ...
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October 19th, 2008 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 19 (IANS) Alleging that the Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government has failed to implement the National Rural Employment Gurarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the state, the Congress party will hold a mass ...
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October 14th, 2008 - 9:40 pm ICT by IANS
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Kochi (Kerala), Oct 14 (IANS) Veteran filmmaker Mani Ratnam, whose latest multilingual film "Ravana" that was being shot in the forest near here was stopped by the Kerala Forest department, was Tuesday ...
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October 11th, 2008 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Kochi, Oct 11 (IANS) Veteran film maker Mani Ratnam, who is shooting his latest multilingual film "Ravana" in the forests of Malayatoor near here, was asked to stop filming after he ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 10 (IANS) A man-eater tiger is giving sleepless nights to forest officials in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district as all attempts to trap it have proved futile.Following this, the locals in ...
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October 6th, 2008 - 3:57 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 6 (IANS) Upon discovering a crocodile in their fields, scared residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh chased and killed the reptile, which is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act, ...
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October 5th, 2008 - 7:05 pm ICT by ANI
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Siliguri, Oct 5 (ANI): An elephant was killed by a goods train near Rajabhat Khawo area of the Bauxa Tiger Reserve Forest of Cooch Bihar District of West-Bengal on early Sunday ...
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September 30th, 2008 - 4:07 pm ICT by IANS
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Raipur, Sep 30 (IANS) About 850 residents of a Chhattisgarh village have not slept for the past one week as a group of 14 wild tuskers, having a record of killing people, ...
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September 29th, 2008 - 3:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Sep 29 (IANS) A crocodile killed a girl and mauled three others in Uttar Pradesh's Shravasti district, a forest official said Monday."According to eyewitnesses, the crocodile pulled away a seven-year-old girl ...
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September 27th, 2008 - 4:44 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Sep 27 (IANS) A man-eating leopard which had been on the prowl for the last 15 days in Uttar Pradesh has been caught, forest officials said Saturday. "The leopard was caught ...
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September 22nd, 2008 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
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By Shiv Shankar Sarthi
Raipur, Sep.22 (ANI): While digging a private house, a fossil, which looks like of some dinosaur species, has been found in Chhattisgarhs Dhamtari district. The fossil is 60 ...
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September 20th, 2008 - 1:33 am ICT by IANS
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Ranchi, Sep 19 (IANS) Two people were trampled to death and one was injured as elephants entered a village in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district Friday and went on the rampage, attacking people and ...
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