Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
JORHAT, April 16: Forest employees of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) are likely to resume their agitation after the Lok Sabha polls in protest against the police failure to arrest Thowra MLA Kushal Duori and Bokakhat MLA Jiten Gogoi allegedly assaulted the Park Ranger when he tried to prevent them …
Trail of tiger deaths View image Officials say poisoning, activists say poaching The death of 10 tigers in three months in Kaziranga National Park in Assam has alarmed environmentalists. The tigers were found dead between November 12, 2008, and February 14, 2009. Park authorities suspect some of the tigers might …
A Dutch tourist was trampled to death by a wild elephant inside the Kaziranga National Park on Tuesday while eight of his colleagues had a miraculous escape. Park authorities said a lone rogue elephant had charged at the group. Robert William, 60, was killed while the others esc- aped. 1In …
Guwahati: A 62-year old tourist from the Netherlands was trampled to death by a wild elephant inside the famous Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Tuesday. The tourist has been identified as Robert Goldbach. A director of the National Park S N Buragohain informed that a lone wild elephant suddenly …
New Delhi: Ten tigers in Kaziranga, Assam, and seven in Kanha, Madhya Pradesh, have died since November 2008. An alarmed Ministry of Environment and Forests has deployed teams from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) to investigate into these deaths. While one team reached Kaziranga on Wednesday, another one is …
While the disappearance of tigers from the Sariska National Park shook the world wildlife fraternity, the reports of death of nine big cats in the Kaziranga National Park in the last three months is quite shocking. Wildlife experts say that the toll must be higher and believe that the forest …
Kaziranga (Assam): Ten tiger deaths in three months, 42 deaths in eight years, yet officials at the Kaziranga National Park, home to one of the largest number of tigers in India, are of the opinion that tiger population here is
The wildlife authority in Assam today ruled out poaching as a cause behind deaths of 10 tigers in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) since November 2008 till date. MC Malakar, chief wildlife warden, told The Tribune that as carcass of none of the 10 tigers found dead in and around …
In the wake of tiger deaths in Kaziranga National Park, there is now a glimmer of hope. An initial survey under an ambitious project by the conservation group Aaranyak suggests that the park now possesses a healthy and stable population of tigers. If the present survey, part of a bigger …
After an inordinate delay, the Kaziranga National Park would finally receive funds under the Project Tiger. An amount of nearly one crore rupees, sourced from the Union Government has been released by the State Government. Well-placed sources in the Department of Forest, Assam, told The Assam Tribune that although late …
KAZIRANGA (DERGAON), Feb 9 - 7th Kaziranga Elephant Festival got under way with a four-day long programme at Kaziranga National Park (KNP) from today. Kaliabor MP Deep Gogoi formaly inaugurated the SHG mela at Kahara this afternoon. More than 150 SHGs participated in the mela. Bokakhat MLA Jiten Gogoi opened …
The unprecedented death of nine tigers within a period of just three months in Kaziranga National Park has sent shockwaves across the conservation fraternity. The developments have naturally put a question mark on the prevailing security mechanism in the park. While the Forest Department has claimed that none of the …
The 7th Kaziranga Elephant Festival is scheduled to begin from February 9 at Kohora Mihimukh and Kaziranga National Park High School. The opening ceremony of the festival will be inaugurated by Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi. However, the main gate of the elephant festival was inaugurated on January 28 by Deep …
Kaziranga National Park (KNP) along with tiger reserves in 17 States has been placed under high alert following death of over 10 tigers in the last three months. The alert has been sounded by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) following intelligence inputs that organised poachers were on the prowl …
