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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......

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......

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......

Laden killed, protests in Assam

Gunning down of Laden inside an Assam forest area has evoked sharp reaction. No, it was not Osama Bin Laden, the most wanted terrorist on the planet, but a wild elephant proclaimed rogue by the......

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......

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......

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......

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......

'I am here for a long time. I'm here to give them grief!'

Piyush Pandey retiring?! 'I'm not going anywhere,' says O&M's South Asia executive chairman. IMAGE: Sonal Dabral, chairman, left, and creative officer of DDB Mudra Group with Piyush Pandey, the......

UN talks agree to build a new-style climate deal in 2015

About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit rising world......

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......

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,......

Is this Aamir's favourite sport?

Aamir seems to love kushti! Aamir Khan has tried his hand at various sports -- cricket, boxing, cycling -- in the movies. But the one he loves to come back to seems to be wrestling. The actor has......

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......