The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is taking special measures to ensure the safety of employees, citizens, animals, and birds against the adverse effects of the heat.
The incident came to light on Wednesday when some dog-loving residents of the apartments found a few dogs dead and some in critical conditions inside the apartment premises and also nearby.
As I stood watching the overwhelming rush of people gathere d for religious rituals in many temples, what struck me most was not devotion, but the silent suffering hidden beneath the noise - the rows of goats waiting to be sacrificed in the name of faith, their lives valued not as sentient beings but as symbols of offerings.
The Supreme Court has now redrawn the battle lines in the country’s long and troubled relationship with its street dogs.
Rampant and irrational use of antibiotics in livestock production, including poultry birds, domestic animals and fish triggers resistance of antibiotics in human beings.
India was a country where people lived together with animals and respected their lives. All this has changed in the last 50 years. What can you say about a country whose government says, happily, that 52 per cent of our exports are meat, fish and leather?
Other animals seeking to cross this Rubicon of parallel roads, such as chital or pig, just bolted across when they felt the coast was clear, but the elephants went about things very deliberately.
The old saying that two tigers cannot share a hill does not hold at Kanha National Park.
It does not matter which discredited industrialist’s interest Avni’s death was meant to serve but by allowing a humungous14,000 square kilometers of green cover to be shorn off over the last 30 years, India has clearly demonstrated the status of its commitment to the natural environment.
Meat is consumed on a massive scale across the world, with billions of animals killed every year.
