The Uttarakhand Special Task Force and the Forest Department have arrested two suspected wildlife smugglers with ivory worth Rs 1.5 crore in Udham Singh Nagar district.
Forest officials registered the case against Mohanlal and two others, filing the first information report (FIR) before Chief Judicial Magistrate at Perumbavoor yesterday naming the 52-year-old actor as the first accused.
Conservationists are going to light up 5 per cent of the world's ivory in an attempt to deter poachers.
'With just 2.4 per cent of global landmass, India houses six to eight per cent of planetary biodiversity and hence is a prime target of wildlife criminals.'
Kumar's son Prashant Bishnoi is a national-level shooter.
Dog squads are sniffing out poachers and busting their plans. Geetanjali Krishna tells us more about these canine crusaders.
Celebrated novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who has just won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke to Arthur J Pais of Rediff.com in 2009, recalling his wonderful association with Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, who had just won a special award.
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