New Delhi: December 19th was a special day for Hornbills at the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary– a stronghold of the species– in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Kameng district. That day, a large hoarding carrying a warning that Hornbills are protected by the Village Forest Development Council, which would impose a fine of Rs 5,000 on anyone found [...]

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Rajaji National Park: Barely 11 months after the gory killing of five tuskers in Corbett National Park, poachers have struck again, this time in the adjoining Rajaji National Park. Two tuskers were poisoned to death and their tusks chopped off with axes in the Ghori Range of the park. Some villagers, who reside inside the [...]

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Sonepur is a small non-descript town in Saran district of Bihar. Despite its unremarkable environs, two of its features are astonishingly large. The first is its railway platform, probably the second largest in the world with a length of 2,415 ft, second only to the Storvik railway station in Sweden that has a platform length [...]

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News Courtesy – Indian Express
Reporter: Sonu Jain
New Delhi: In a travesty of the law, an IAS officer of Secretary rank in Assam has been cleared of criminal charges in a case of hunting in a reserved forest, on the ground that he is suffering from ”cancer”. He had the Chief Minister of Nagaland, S [...]

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