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
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
New Delhi: Finnish Mobile Game developer, Rovio Mobile is set to release new Angry Birds Heikki game on June 18 this year. The new Angry Birds Heikki is teased at the landing page at - http://heikki.angrybirds.com and no details have been mentioned on the page. From the images placed on the landing page, it is quite evidential that Rovio might introduce Angry Birds Heikki game in order to support and...
01:02 PM, May 23, 2012
Kozhikode: An Air India plane with 150 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing at the Kozhikode airport in Kerala after being hit by a bird. The AI-973 Kozhikode-Dubai flight made an emergency landing at the airport shortly after the mishap on Monday morning. All the 150 people on board are reported to be safe. The bird hit was reported at 10:40 am with the pilot soon...
12:27 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Washington: Telecom towers are killing nearly seven million birds every year as they migrate from the US and Canada to Central and South America, says a new study. According to the study, around 84,000 telecom towers, some of which can rise nearly 2,000 feet into the sky, much higher than the Empire State Building at 1,250 feet, dot the two countries. However, the birds are killed not by running into...
12:03 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Helsiniki: Rovio is working on getting its new Angry Birds Space game to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform (WP7), its chief executive said on Friday, putting Nokia and other Windows phones more on a par with the iPhone. "We are working towards getting Angry Birds Space to WP7," Rovio Chief Executive Mikael Hed told Reuters, dismissing earlier media reports that the top gaming firm was dumping the platform. Hed, however,...
12:06 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the super popular game Angry Birds, has now announced the launch of its much-awaited game - Angry Birds Space - which is available now for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, as well as the Mac and PC, with PC retail copies to follow shortly. Angry Birds Space is a completely new game with innovative new gameplay. "From floating through space in...
04:08 PM, Mar 22, 2012
CHENNAI: Bird lovers may look forward to a chirp-happy World Sparrow Day with an initiative to map the sparrow population across the city. Despite a commendable initiative to distribute 52,000 feeders free of cost across the country by the Nature Forever Society (NFS) in association with the Burhani Foundation (India), Mohammed Dilawar founder of NFS, says, "There is no proper system of monitoring these sparrows in place. In the areas...
08:40 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Are you bored of playing Angry Birds? Here is some good news for you. Rovio, the company behind this super popular game, has announced to come up with a new game - Angry Birds Space - on March 22. The new game will be launched simultaneously in mobile gaming, animation, retail, and publishing. "We are very excited to announce our next game: Angry Birds Space! It's going to...
01:11 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: Here comes good news for 'Angry Birds' fans. Initially designed for Apple's iOS, Angry birds, the most downloaded game ever, can now be played on Facebook. Rovio, the company behind this super popular game, has made its multi-platform game Angry Birds available as a Facebook app. However, the app is quite similar to the mobile version of the game, but there are certain features that have been uniquely...
07:37 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Saturday decided to go for culling of fowls in the state capital from Sunday in the wake of detection of avian influenza in a farm of the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) in Bhubaneswar. "We have received advisory from the Central government to start culling," Satyabrata Sahu, secretary, Fisheries and Animal Resources Development department, said. About 30,000 fowls at the CPDO farm were likely to be...
08:31 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Environment Ministry has reacted to a CNN-IBN report about how the UP government had violated environment rules and diverted wetlands in Greater Noida's Dadri to the Ansal group. The ministry has ordered that the work on the project should be stopped. It has also issued a show cause notice. The Uttar Pradesh government sold 2400 acre of wetlands, home to over 5,000 migratory birds. As the area...
07:31 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Greater Noida: In a fresh controversy surrounding the Mayawati government ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls, it has allowed the sale of wetlands near Noida to a private builder. Hundreds of acres of wetlands visited by migratory birds from as far as Siberia and Spain were sold to Ansals for a mega housing project in Greater Noida. Angered by the move, the Union Environment Ministry has asked the state government...
06:48 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New York: The last time I relied on email software for personal messaging, George W. Bush was starting his second term, Pluto was still a planet and the Motorola Razr was America's most popular mobile phone. I embraced Web email a year after Google's Gmail came along in 2004. Until then, Web email had been inferior to stand-alone desktop programs. Gmail's revolutionary approach to email prompted rivals to innovate. As...
01:11 PM, Jan 19, 2012
The cold wave conditions in Kashmir over the last few days have not only affected the local population - but migratory birds too are hit. They're now struggling to find food because the wetlands have frozen completely. ...
12:11 PM, Jan 13, 2012
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