Year: 2019

Assam hooch tragedy leaves behind 37 orphans

Assam hooch tragedy leaves behind 37 orphans

In the Pujhar household, at the end of the row in the residential quarters of workers at the Halmira Tea Estate in Assam’s Golaghat district, Dipali Pujhar (11) is the eldest surviving member of the family. Her parents Debaru and Sunita, died in the recent hooch tragedy. The first deaths

2 CRPF officers among 5 dead in J&K gunfight

2 CRPF officers among 5 dead in J&K gunfight

Four security personnel, including two from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and one civilian were killed in an encounter in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Friday. A statement from the Jammu and Kashmir Police said that the army, state police and the CRPF launched an operation in Babagund village late

Asian rhino nations to collaborate on conservation efforts

Asian rhino nations to collaborate on conservation efforts

In a major global policy initiative that can boost rhino conservation efforts, the countries having major concentrations of Asian rhinos – India, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia and Malaysia – on Thursday agreed to collaborate for strengthening protection regimes, intelligence gathering and real-time sharing of intelligence information on rhino crime and its