Raigarh: A villager was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on August 11, the second such incident in the region in one month, officials said. Mohitram Yadav (39) was attacked by the jumbo in Ongna village under Dharamjaigarh forest division at around 3 am whenContinue Reading
Coimbatore: Four people, including a 12-year-old girl and two women, were trampled to death by a tusker at Ganeshapuram and Vellalore in Coimbatore city in the early hours of Friday. The deceased have been identified as Gayathri, 12, daughter of Vijayakumar of Ganeshapuram, P Palanisamy, 73, of Kambar Street atContinue Reading
Tezpur: The State Government will soon release an amount of Rs 4 crore to be paid as compensation to the next of kin of those killed by wild elephants, besides people injured or having suffered standing crop damage by the slatey grey giants. The above was disclosed by State Forest MinisterContinue Reading
Tezpur: The All Adivasi Students’ Association and Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association today blocked NH 15 at Behali in Sonitpur district for nearly an hour to protest against the forest department’s failure to protect the border villages from elephants. The blockade was in protest against the death of five personsContinue Reading