India: Four persons who had entered Kumudvathi forest near Mugudthi village in Shettyhalli wildlife sanctuary limits, allegedly for hunting, were arrested by Forest Department personnel in the early hours of Wednesday. The accused are Raghavendra, Vasanth, Thammaiah, and Manjappa, residents of Bidar

India: A man in his mid-twenties was arrested with 141 river terrapin turtles from Doon Express when the train stopped at Dhanbad junction on Thursday afternoon. Bishwa Biswas, a native of Bandel in Bengal, was taking the critically endangered turtles home from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. RPF officer

India: A man identified as Paokhanmang Guite of Chinkhanmang of Khuangmun village, Churachandpur district was sent to jail in connection with illegal trading of Pangolin scales. He was sent to Sajiwa Central jail by an order of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thoubal for illegally trading 1.50 kg of Pang

India: A 62-year-old man and his son were arrested on Wednesday for trying to sell tiger skin for Rs 3.5 lakh in Ulhasnagar. Hareshkumar Narayandas Hansrajani, 62, and his son Dipak Hareshkumar Hansrajani, 30, have been remanded in police custody. Police said during investigation they also found tha

India: The Rampura (City) police have arrested a person for allegedly killing National Bird peacock at Phul town. The post-mortem of peacock was conducted and it was handed over to officials of the Forest Department. A case under Section 428 of the IPC and Sections 9, 39, 40, 50 and 51 of the Wild L