Woman killed, husband injured in wild elephant attack in Kerala’s Wayanad
A woman died while her husband sustained injuries when a wild elephant attacked them at Kalladi near Meppadi in Kerala’s Wayanad district on Tuesday.
A woman died while her husband sustained injuries when a wild elephant attacked them at Kalladi near Meppadi in Kerala’s Wayanad district on Tuesday.
A 40-year-old rubber tapper was killed in a wild elephant attack at Karuvarakundu in Kerala’s Malappuram district on Tuesday morning.
An elephant was seen in the voting line prior to the commencement of the first phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal, causing alarm among voters on Thursday morning.
Despite veterinarian experts attributing the death of the elephant Chanchal at Amer Hathi Gaon to old age and cardio-respiratory failure, the controversy surrounding the painting of the animal pink by Russian artist Julia Buruleva continues.
A female elephant, Suman, died in Siwan, Bihar, in circumstances that animal protection advocates say raises serious concerns about her upkeep.
For countless villagers across south Bengal, the night often brings fear instead of rest—fear of an elephant herd straying into their fields, crushing the year’s harvest, toppling mud houses, or leaving behind a trail of grief.
In the latest outbreak of man-elephant conflict, three people, including a woman, were killed during the wee hours on Thursday as a wild tusker trampled them to death in forest-side Baghadharia village in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, an official said.
Anandamay Barman, BJP MLA from Matigara-Naxalbari, raised serious concerns in the West Bengal Assembly over frequent incidents of wild elephant depredation in villages bordering the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary.
With Odisha recording an all-time yearly high record of 94 elephant deaths in 2024-25 (till 18.3.2025), the state has acquired the dubious distinction of being the elephant graveyard of India.
The movement of elephants in southwestern region of Bengal began in the year 1993 when around 22 elephants arrived at the Mayurjharna Elephant Reserve, located at the junction of the districts of Jhargram, Bankura, and Purulia.
