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Features
Manas park set to repopulate rhinoceroses
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 06:12.By Sanjeeb Baruah, IANS
Manas (Assam) : The Manas national park, a Unesco world heritage site, is all set to repopulate the greater one horned rhinoceroses seven years after poachers wiped out the species from the sanctuary.
Kumaoni villagers script Corbett's success story
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 05:29.By Sanjeeb Baruah, IANS
Corbett (Uttarakhand) : A unique partnership between Kumaoni villagers and the forest department at the Jim Corbett National Park has helped protect many rare wildlife species and scripted one of the world's best conservation stories.
Jumbos lose in man-animal conflict in southern India
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 06:42.By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS
New Delhi : Environmentalists and wildlife activists have pressed the panic button following the death of 20 jumbos in the last one year in the elephant corridor of southern India.
Did you know - world carom champ is Chennai girl
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 06:06.By Papri Sri Raman, IANS
Chennai : The world carom champion is a 24-year-old from Chennai who has been winning global plaudits, but is virtually incognito. Despite her many achievements, Ilavazhagi, the daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver, has not been able to capture media attention.
Acid attack victims have no law to help them
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 05:19.By Ritu Sharma, IANS
New Delhi : Rashmi Roy (name changed), 28, used to work with a dance troupe in a prominent hotel. A colleague allegedly threw acid on her Dec 19, 2004. She lost her sight and her face was disfigured beyond recognition.
Ilavazhagi, the struggling world champion from Chennai
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 05:08.By Papri Sri Raman, IANS
Chennai : Meet Ilavazhagi, the world carrom champion who has been winning medals for the country in silence. Despite her achievements, the 24-year-old daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver has not been able to capture media attention.
Jumbos under siege in southern India
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 05:02.By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS
New Delhi : Environmentalists and wildlife activists have pressed the panic button in the elephant corridor connecting Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu where the Asian tusker is under siege.
Story of a Hindu party worker for the Pakistan Muslim League
Submitted by Tarique on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 10:21.By Devirupa Mitra, IANS
Rawalpindi : The elections are over, the results are out, and sitting in his wall-papered drawing room in Rawalpindi, 52-year-old Saroop Chand is juggling with two incessantly ringing mobile phones.
Young lives left to flicker out of neglect
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 07:03.By Kanu Sarda, IANS
New Delhi : Azad, 11, and Nuruddin, 8, are deaf and dumb. They go to school every day. They learn nothing. Their teachers have no idea how to teach them.
Former trooper fights another battle - on AIDS front
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 06:58.By Nityanand Shukla, IANS
Ranchi : Ranjeet Dubey has fought many battles with terrorists, but the Border Security Force (BSF) trooper is now waging another war - this time against HIV, and the discrimination that goes with it.
Dubey joined the BSF in 1996 and was diagnosed with AIDS in 1999 when he was posted at the Wagah checkpost on the India-Pakistan border.
