-PTI The conflict between men and Elephants came to the fore once again in Orissa's Ganjam district when wild tuskers trampled to death a 57-year-old man and injured a girl at a village. Dandasi Muduli (57) died on the spot when he was attacked by a herd of wild Elephants outside village Biripur yesterday while on way to a pond for a bath. Before the incident, the tuskers had attacked a girl who...
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Animals also entitled to accident compensation, says Supreme Court by J Venkatesan
Award of Rs. 13.48 lakh for elephant hit by KSRTC bus upheld Observing that animals, including Elephants, are entitled to compensation in road accidents, the Supreme Court has upheld an award of Rs. 13.48 lakh for the death of a temple elephant after it was hit by a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus. A Bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and T.S. Thakur did not agree with the contention of the...
More »Water, not safety, Kerala’s main issue: TN farmers by Gopu Mohan
-The Indian Express Unmoved by the blitzkrieg from Kerala about the “imminent collapse” of the Mullaperiyar dam, those in support of Tamil Nadu’s stand on the dispute argue that their neighbour’s catchy slogan ‘safety for Kerala, water for Tamil Nadu’ does not capture the devil that is in the detail. While Kerala has pegged its campaign for a new dam completely on the safety aspect of the older one, which it claims...
More »Chhattisgarh coal blocks a test case for acquiring tribal lands by Aman Sethi
This wedding season, anxious grooms from Parsa and Ghatburra, two villages in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district, were offered financial assistance from an unlikely source. Adani Mining Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd, was handing out loans to all those who could prove that the money would be spent on marriage arrangements. “A company official took us to the bank, opened accounts in our names, and gave us cheques for Rs....
More »UN-backed meeting seeks to clamp down on poaching of Elephants, rhinos
-The United Nations Faced with increased poaching and illegal trade in ivory and horns of Elephants and rhinoceroses, 300 government and civil society experts worldwide are seeking to strengthen conservation with new financial mechanisms at a United Nations-backed meeting in Geneva this week. “Innovative financial solutions are required to achieve the huge conservation task before us,” John Scanlon, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and...
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