Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has pulled up the state government and the Temple Devasom board over the use of elephants during temple festivals. The court issued a notice and sought an explanation for violating norms. CNN-IBN had earlier reported on numerous instances of violation and cases of elephants going on a rampage. A toddler was killed and 25 others injured in a stampede when a tusker ran amok in...
09:00 AM, May 31, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: More and more incidents of elephants on rampage are being reported in Kerala. This has brought the focus back on the debate on the parading of animals at festivals. A toddler was killed and 25 others injured in a stampede when a tusker ran amok in the festivities at the famous Koodal Manikkam Temple in the Thrissur district. In another incident, 62 were injured as the result of an...
03:51 PM, May 23, 2012
A tiger death raises a million eye brows. An investigation is immediately sought. Conservationists make a hue and cry demanding the arrest of the poacher. But they don't show same intensity of concern when an elephant dies due to poaching or electrocution. Invariably the blame is thrust on elephants for crop-raiding. Farmers who illegally draw power from electric lines and trigger-happy poachers get away scot free. Like the critically endangered...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012
Kavassery (Kerala): Frenzied mass participation characterises annual temple festivals in Kerala that invariably include colourful processions of richly caparisoned elephants and panchavadyam (orchestra) by a combination of percussion instruments. Other highlights of the February-May festivals - known as pooram, arattu, vela or kummatti in different places - are spectacular fireworks displays at night and puja and age-old rituals in the temples that seek to provide spiritual nourishment. Large groups of...
02:01 PM, May 12, 2012
COIMBATORE: Three elephants have been found dead over the past 24 hours in the Nilgiris Biosphere, reportedly due to natural causes.According to official sources, two female elephant calves were found dead in the Nilgiri (North) forest range and the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve respectively. District forest officer (the Nilgiris North) S Ramasubramaniam said a one-and-half-year old female calf was found dead at the Singara Range in the Nilgiris North division on...
09:59 AM, Apr 03, 2012
HYDERABAD: The AP Biodiversity Board (APBB) has come up with a plan to set up an international level biodiversity museum and park in Hyderabad within the next five months. Confirming the move, APBB Chairman Dr R Hampaiah said it was being planned as part of the arrangements for the Conference of Parties (CoP-11) slated to be held in the city in October. The APBB had recently sent a report on...
08:13 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Authoritarian, dictatorial, media caricature - there are many such words that are used to describe Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. ...
11:46 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said that the party will go to High Court to contest the FIR filed against Rahul Gandhi. An FIR was on Monday filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, on the campaign trail in Uttar Pradesh, for alleged violation of model code of conduct by district authorities which said his road show here had breached the time limit and the route map set...
11:46 AM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Lucknow administration has stopped the enactment of a play named 'My Sandal'. The administration clamped down on the play, says it was an attempt to lampoon Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. The play apparently had a character named Maya and had references to 'Maya's Sandal' and 'Maya's elephant'. ...
12:14 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission deadline to the Uttar Pradesh government to cover up Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and those of her party symbol - the elephant - expired on Wednesday evening at 5 pm. UP officials spent the night covering up statues all over the state. Meanwhile, a Public Interest Litigation filed in the Allahabad High Court challenging the Election Commission's order for covering statues of elephants in poll-bound...
05:20 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Lucknow/New Delhi: Over 200 statues of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) symbol of the elephant are being draped in 1.5 km of pink polythene in Lucknow and Noida on Tuesday at a total cost of Rs 1 crore to meet the Election Commission's deadline of January 11. Pink is the neutral hue chosen for the exercise as it does not represent any party's official...
01:19 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission's directive to cover up statues installed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seems to have expensive ramifications. The state exchequer will have to shell out Rs 1 crore to cover the statues of the BSP supremo and her party symbol elephant in Lucknow. The decision was taken at a late-night meeting held in Lucknow on Monday. And keeping in sync with Mayawati's penchant for pink,...
11:14 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission's recent order to cover all statues of BSP supremo Mayawati and her party's symbol - the elephant - has drawn mixed reactions from the voters and political parties. While some political parties say it will give rise to several complications, voters seem to be not happy with the decision which they claim is just a wasteful expenditure of time and money. Mayawati's party has called...
06:06 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: A PIL was moved in Allahabad High Court on Monday challenging Election Commission decision to cover all the elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh. The petitioner said that elephant is a symbol of Hinduism. The Election Commission recently ordered that all statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her party symbol, the elephant, installed at several places in Uttar Pradesh be covered until the completion of Assembly poll process. Chief...
04:42 PM, Jan 09, 2012
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03:56 PM, Jan 09, 2012
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