Thiruvananthapuram: Can a monkey do a man's job? Yes, when it comes to climbing tall coconut trees and plucking its fruits - a skill that has been hit by labour shortage, say the Kerala authorities. With fewer people in the state willing to take up the arduous and risky job, the coconut business has taken a beating. To keep up the supply of the fruit, trained monkeys seem to be...
12:32 PM, Apr 30, 2012
London: More than 2,600 monkeys in Britain have become targets of "horrifying experiments" that included sawing open their skulls while still alive, putting electrodes in them and forcing them to watch TV, a report said. According to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), scientists at a university in Edinburgh last year force-fed pregnant marmosets with toxic chemicals used in plastics to monitor the effect on the sexual...
10:17 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Los Angeles: Oscar-winner A R Rahman, Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges are coming together for director Kevin Lima's Bollywood-style animated musical adventure 'Monkeys of Mumbai'. Lima, who directed Disney's animated 'Tarzan' before turning to the live-action hits like '102 Dalmations' and 'Enchanted', has signed on to helm Dream Works Animation's new project, whose story is somewhat similar to the great Indian epic the Ramayana. The movie centers around a man...
02:01 PM, Jul 23, 2011
Titled Monkeys of Bollywood, the film based in Mumbai revolves around two monkeys who try to stop an ancient demon from conquering the world. The movie is said to be inspired by Indian epic Ramayana, reports variety.com. Chadha and her husband Paul Berges will produce the DreamWorks project. "Excited about entering the world of Dreamworks animation...!(sic)," Rahman posted on his Twitter. Broadway lyricist Stephen Schwartz is also attached to it....
12:40 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Shimla: The incarnation of god Hanuman for some, but crop destroyers and a big nuisance for farmers, monkeys are turning out to be a major election issue in Himachal Pradesh this time. The issues are simple: Are monkeys friends or foes? Are they not an invasive pest species? Why has the state government not framed a long-term policy to control the menace so far? "Every election brings a ray of...
12:18 PM, Mar 30, 2009
Meet a monkey doctor who is saving the species in a tiny pocket of forests. ...
09:43 PM, Feb 14, 2009
Melbourne: The Sri Lankan players have played without being paid adequately by their cricket board in the last few months and little has changed now as they will feature in the upcoming tri-series in Australia in the same financial crisis. Sri Lanka's players are owed as much as five million dollars and the due payments date back to last year's World Cup, which it co-hosted with India and Bangladesh. The...
09:11 AM, Apr 18, 2008
Karachi: The cricket community in Pakistan has lashed out at ICC president Sharad Pawar and the BCCI for their refusal to investigate claims by former India player Vinod Kambli that the 1996 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka may have been fixed. This is a former India player making a serious accusation and yet even Sharad Pawar in his capacity as ICC president has dismissed the issue outright, which is...
10:45 PM, Mar 21, 2008
New Delhi: The qualifying matches for this year's Champions League Twenty20 will start with West Indian team Trinidad and Tobago taking on Sri Lanka's Ruhunu on September 19 in Hyderabad. "Each team will play two qualifying matches, and the top team in each Pool, along with the next highest ranked team (decided on Points, then Net Run Rate), will go through to the Group stage," the BCCI said in a...
09:25 AM, Feb 25, 2008
Coffee producers are using beans spit out by monkeys to make a rare brew. ...
04:13 PM, Nov 14, 2007
The MCD has hired monkey catchers to help them cope with danger. ...
11:08 AM, Oct 22, 2007
S S Bajwa succumbed to injuries sustained in an attack by monkeys. ...
12:53 AM, Oct 22, 2007
Sealing and demolition drives aren't the MCD's only worries. There is monkey menace in the Capital to deal with too. ...
04:13 PM, May 21, 2007
Delhiites fight monkeys in daily lives as well as in court as the HC has ruled ridding the Capital of stray simians. ...
12:01 PM, Mar 30, 2007
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