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Telangana quarry halts operations to let rare owl hatch eggs

In an environment-friendly gesture, quarrying has been stopped for about a month at a stone quarry in Vikarabad district in Telangana to let a rock eagle owl, a rare bird, hatch its eggs. IMAGE:......

Sonali Ghosh's Historic Wildlife Journey

Dr Sonali Ghosh, the first woman to head the Kaziranga National Park and the first Indian to win the IUCN's Kenton Miller Award, has turned her childhood love for nature into an inspiring career in......

Lowest tiger numbers since records began, says WWF

The World wildlife fund has warned that the wild tiger population has fallen to its lowest level since records began. The population has fallen to about 3200 from being above 100000 in 1900, the......

This 'Super Sniffer' squad to protect India's cheetahs

A five-month-old German Shepherd 'Ilu' is under training at Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force's National Training Centre for Dogs to join the 'Supper Sniffer' squad in Madhya Pradesh. Ilu will soon......

Assam: 6 WWF volunteers abducted

Six volunteers of the World Wide Fund for Nature were abducted by unidentified militants from a thickly-forested area close to India-Bhutan border in Assam on Sunday evening. The volunteers were......

WWF to create 'green' domain names

Want to show your love for the environment in the virtual world? World Wide Fund for Nature-international has initiated the process for creation of a 'green' domain name on the Internet. On its......

Coke pledges to conserve rivers; India missing

Coca-Cola pledged on Tuesday to conserve seven of the world's most critical river basins under a $20 million plan but skipped India, where it faces protests for allegedly depleting ground water.The......

Marks & Spencer set to replicate AP green story

UK's largest apparel retailer Marks & Spencer said its "cotton sustainability project" in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh had started bearing fruit. The company is ready to increase the number......

Charting a private route

The names sound like they've been taken from a WWF programme sheet. There's Vittorio Frattini, Kashish, John Miller, Ventiuno and a tough-sounding Stone River Classic. But these aren't a bunch of......

Kamath to head finance panel

ICICI Bank chief K V Kamath has been appointed as the head of the sub-group to recommend the financing structure for the proposed Rs 5,60,000 crore (Rs 5,600 billion) project to link six major......

Review: Sam Bahadur: The Amar Chitra Katha Version

Sam Bahadur is a mechanical summary of his life, ticking off one chapter after another without bothering to pause or ponder over their significance and influences, observes Sukanya Verma. A......

Adipurush Review: Why Mess With An Epic?

Cherry blossoms in Sri Lanka, Hanuman speaking Bombaiya, the mythical Sone Ki Lanka looking darkly Gothic, Raavan looking like a Bollywood dude... this is not modernisation. This is a travesty,......

#ThrowbackThursday: Recognise this star?

It's #ThrowbackThursday time and the perfect opportunity to look at some flashback pix. Photograph: Kind courtesy Sonam Kapoor/Instagram Sonam Kapoor posts a throwback pic with sister Rhea.......

Indian Movies I Loved in 2022

In a year of overwrought spectacles that slavishly sucked up to the audience, I found refuge in a bunch of 'mainstream' Indian films that espoused such old-fashioned values as dedication to craft,......

FIRST LOOK: Aamir's scowl is back with Dangal

A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Aamir Khan created quite a furore on Twitter by sharing the first official poster of his new film Dangal. Kunal Kohli was one of......

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies at 71

Hogan parlayed his wrestling fame into a less successful career in Hollywood, starring in films like "Rocky III" and "Santa With Muscles," but kept returning to the ring as long as his body would......

Rohit bats for conservation of rhinos

'The future is in our hands and we should do whatever we can to ensure that our children are able to enjoy the rich bio-diversity this world has to offer.' IMAGE: Rohit Sharma pledged to do his......

SEE: Rohit says 'embrace nature' on World Environment Day

Indian cricket ODI vice-captain Rohit Sharma marked World Environment Day on Friday by asking fans to ‘embrace’ nature. In a post shared on his Twitter handle, Rohit put out a video by......

Rohit Sharma's daughter gets a baby rhino named after her

IMAGE: For Rohit, the cause of rhino conservation is one that is very close to his heart. Photographs Courtesy: Rohit Sharma/Instagram Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma, who supports WWF’s......

PICS: Tokyo Olympics - The Green Games

Plastic podiums, recycled medals, cardboard beds put focus on sustainability at Tokyo 2020. IMAGE: The gold, silver and bronze medals used at the Tokyo Olympics were forged from recycled metal......

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