India: Anti-smuggling task force seized red sanders logs near Tirupati on Friday morning. According to task force DSP Venkataiah, RSI Vasu, Suresh and Jani Basha teams acted on specific information and were conducting combing operations in the Seshachalam forests near SV Zoo park road sinc

India: A Special Task Force (STF) team of the State Crime Branch today arrested two smugglers and seized two elephant tusks from their possession following a raid under Ainthapalli Police Station area in Sambalpur district. The accused persons have been identified as Hrusikesh Kumbhar, a reside

India: A businessman was arrested by the Andhra Pradesh police for allegedly smuggling red sanders from that State. The police gave the name of the arrested as Baskaran, 56, of Anna Nagar. The police said Baskaran had a history of smuggling red sanders from forests in Andhra Pradesh. He was taken to

India: A poacher has been arrested from Chilika Lake area and three carcasses of migratory birds have been seized from him, a forest official said on Thursday. The arrested has been identified as Gurudev Sahu of Gopinathpur village under Tangi forest range. Acting on a tip-off, the forest officials