The Modi government could steer through Parliament 59 out of 75 Bills.
Away from the distraction of its new high-profile politics, Wayanad's worries seemed very down to earth, discovers Shyam G Menon.
Seven decades after they became extinct in India, eight Cheetahs arrived in the country from Namibia by a special flight on Saturday morning and were released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP).
A glimpse of the Pathaan star exuded more glamour than a room full of Hollywood put together.
The results for the People's Choice Award for the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year are in.
British royal couple Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton on Thursday visited the Kaziranga National Park in a jeep safari.
Whether you prefer luxury tent camps or Himalayan home stays, India's wildlife reigns supreme with elephants, tigers, and birds in flight.
P Manimegalai catches snakes in the city of Madurai and releases them in the forest.
'What we do about our planet in the next 10 or 20 years is going to be crucial to our existence. There is nothing more important to our long term future. NOTHING!' says M Sanjayan, one of the more visible South Asian faces, internationally, in conservation.
'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.'
When humanity's away, the animals will play. With much of the world driven indoors to quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, some species not often seen -- or, at least, rarely in such large numbers, and certainly not against such empty backdrops -- are exploring cities across the globe. We must sadly report that though there have been many circulating on social media, many of these optimistic posts have turned out to be fake -- there were no dolphins in Venice's celebrated canals, or drunken elephants ambling through China's Yunnan province. However, there are some other instances where animals have, in fact, come out to explore city streets.
It is an interesting film shot at a wonderful location. A must-watch.
The army, SDRF and NDRF are assisting the district administrations in evacuating the affected population to safer places, the authority said.
Noida-based Dr Pawan Sharma recently visited Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and shot these amazing pictures. Take a look!
The power of judicial review is being stretched to breaking point.
The Natural History Museum's annual competition and exhibition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been the longest-running and most prestigious nature and wildlife photography competition that has been recognising the world's best nature photography every year since 1965.
'The most recent incident involving Musharraf's make-believe is the standoff at a terrorist stronghold in Islamabad.'
The National Park is facing the worst floods in the past 10 years.
Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation staff rescued rhinos, elephants, hog deer and even a tiger from the floods in the Kaziranga National Park.
Addressing the nation on Independence Day, the prime minister also spoke on renewable energy and the need to maintain a balance between development and the environment. Referring to the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), launched in January 2019, Modi said, "A special campaign is being worked out to reduce pollution in 100 selected cities with a holistic approach."
Supreme Court must be less ambitious in the issues it chooses to take up, says M J Antony
'Fearlessness, courtesy, humour, wide interests and wisdom, deep commitment to science and technology, passion for the environment, objectivity and the ability to see many things through not only a national but also an international prism.'
Maneka said the Union environment ministry "is writing to every state government, allowing them to provide a list of animals that can be killed so that the Centre can give permission.
No plaque marks the historic meeting place of the fathers of two nations. And no history textbook tells us about that first meeting and their mutual admiration, common ethos and comradeship.
Pitching for forest rights of tribals, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi attacked the Centre and the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Chhattisgarh, accusing both of working "just for two-three industrialists" and not passing on the benefits of development to locals.
Parts of the country are reeling under severe heat wave conditions, resulting in temperatures soaring in the 40s. In fact, Banda in Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest temperature of 47 degree Celsius on Monday. India is really feeling the heat and these images prove it...
The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles, even as it shrunk the budgetary allocation for the environment ministry from the last fiscal by nearly eight percent. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech for 2021-22, announced a total of Rs 2869.93 crore for the ministry, Rs 230 crore less than the last fiscal. Officials said the outlay has been lesser this time as the economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wildlife photography is plentiful, but we assure you that these images by Peruvian photographer Pedro Pedro Jarque Krebs are unlike any you have seen ever. The images, which feature in his book Fragile (published by teNeues), aims to draw attention to the 'precarious situation' of the natural world. Pedro says: "My goal with these images is to raise our awareness of the beauty and diversity of the natural world, but -- even more importantly -- its dreadful fragility and endangerment." Scroll down to see some of the book's most jaw-dropping images...
Heavy flooding has caused animals at Kaziranga and Pabitora to move to higher land, making them more vulnerable to poaching.
'Are you so scared for your own skin that you will not help a lady or a weak man from attack?' asks an anguished A Ganesh Nadar.
Conde Nast Traveller sorted through the wish lists of wildlife enthusiasts from around the world to collate this definitive guide. How many will you cross off?
The staff and security personnel are performing their duties using mechanised and country boats to deal with any kind of eventualities, they said.
A treat lay in store for wildlife enthusiast Suchismita Banerjee at Lake Palace Resort on the Periyar Lake.
It was between 2010 and 2014 that wildlife biologists began to realise the heavy proliferation of tigers in the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka. The fiercely-territorial beasts are today locked in battle for dominance with man and his cattle.
'Animal populations are increasing. Human populations are increasing. So there is no way the man-animal conflict going to go away.'
Fadnavis said preliminary reports made available to him stated that the tigress was shot after she attacked the forest staff trying to tranquilise her.
All noise seems to fade away at the Bhimbetka caves that seem to cast a magical spell on visitors.
Rajesh Karkera relives exciting and eerie moments following a tigress.
Computers need to be trained to recognise images, says Devangshu Datta.
