New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said it had no information on the claim by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that the CPM had hatched a conspiracy to assassinate her with help from abroad. At the presentation of the monthly report card of Ministry of Home Affairs, Home Minister P Chidambaram was asked by a reporter about the details of threats being faced by the Trinamool Congress supremo as...
07:29 PM, May 31, 2012
Puducherry: Migratory birds and endangered animals protected by the Indian wildlife laws are being sold openly in a market in Puducherry. CNN-IBN has accessed images that expose the thriving lucrative business. At a roadside food stall, in the city of Puducherry the selling of protected birds and animals is a common sight. The images show ibis and purple moorhens, open billed storks being sold openly at roadside stalls. These birds...
06:25 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Irrfan Khan, who had his first solo hit in Bollywood with 'Paan Singh Tomar', says he is in no hurry to sign new films. "Big bucks can entice anyone but I don't want to end up doing films just for monetary reasons. When you do a film for money, the cash flow does look good but the journey is really a painful experience. I would rather earn less...
06:53 PM, May 30, 2012
Puducherry: Migratory birds and endangered animals protected by the Indian wildlife laws are being sold openly in a market in Puducherry. CNN-IBN has accessed images that expose the thriving lucrative business. The images show ibis and purple moorhens, open billed storks being sold openly at roadside stalls. These birds visit the Oussudu Wildlife Sanctuary in the winters for breeding where they are allegedly hunted. Jungle cats, palm civets, porcupine, monitor...
01:25 PM, May 30, 2012
Kaziranga National Park: The Kaziranga National Park in Assam has come up with some fresh ideas to save its tigers. There are about 81 to 131 of them there. CNN-IBN's Arijit Sen travelled inside the park to learn about the technology that has been put to use to spot the big cats. Kaziranga National Park Director SK Bora said, "The habitat we are trying to protect appears to be quite...
09:27 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has come down heavily on poachers. State Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam has issued 'shoot-at-sight' orders to the forest guards if they saw any poacher hunting or laying traps in tiger reserves. The orders have been in place for the past 10 years but the field staff have been reluctant to implement them as some forest guards were being booked for violating human rights despite the government...
08:27 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: A spate of tiger poaching incidents have come to light from Maharashtra. The body of a tiger chopped into 11 pieces with its head and paws missing was recovered on Friday. It appears the tiger parts have been taken by the poachers. The incident happened at the Tadoba Tiger Reserve, which has seen a spate of poaching incidents. Just two weeks ago, the forest department found leghold traps...
01:32 PM, May 21, 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
New Delhi: 'Kai Po Che!', the film adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's bestseller 'The 3 Mistakes Of My Life', will come out Jan 11, 2013. The movie, produced by UTV Spotboy and directed by Abhishek Kapoor, promises "dollops of fun, friendship, masti, and highlights the coming of age of a group of three middle class youths," said a statement from the production house. It features Sushant Singh Rajput, Raj Kumar Yadav...
07:23 PM, May 18, 2012
HYDERABAD: No tiger death took place in Andhra Pradesh in the last 14 months, while as many as 32 tigers died across the country in the last over four months. Moreover, the number of tigers is increasing in the state.However, six panthers died either naturally or in accidents since 2010.According to the interim report of the ongoing State Tiger Census-2012 conducted by AP Forest Department (APFD) with the help of...
11:33 AM, May 18, 2012
She looked a million bucks when she turned sizzling hot at this Artic event on April 26. Shriya Saran has managed to be behind the greasepaint for nearly 10 long years as she leaves a stamp in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi cinema. "I feel blessed to be part of the industry. I'm very grateful for being appreciated by people for all along. This film world always makes me feel special....
11:15 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stopped a project that was meanto bring cheetahs to India. The flagship project was considered to be the pet project of former environment minister Jairam Ramesh and was cleared by the Cabinet as well. The Court has stated that proper approvals were not taken from the National Board of Wildlife. The Cheetah project was for bringing cheetahs to India. The idea was to bring...
04:06 PM, May 08, 2012
No one is more fascinated by advertising people than advertising people. Their extra-curricular efforts have often been hypnotically self-referential. Until 'Mad Men' came along, and turned retro advertising drama into mass entertainment. Sujit Sanyal may not be quite as handsome as Jon Hamm, but his memoirs are a successful foray into the same genre or subculture, as the case may be. Mr Sanyal was active in Calcutta in the seventies...
11:56 AM, May 03, 2012
New York: Facebook wants to help you share your organs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says US and UK users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their Facebook Timelines. And those, who are not organ donors, can find links to official organ donation registries and instantly enroll. "We want...
06:08 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Reportedly, the social-networking giant Facebook is going to introduce a new 'life-saving' feature that has the power to save lives. According to reports, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, is slated to announce details about this new feature in an exclusive interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, which is scheduled to be telecasted on Tuesday. Zuckerberg is believed to flash the tool at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters. While Zuckerbegr...
04:31 PM, May 01, 2012
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