INTACH’s ‘Project Gaja-Lok’ to document Odisha’s elephant traditions
The project was inaugurated in Puri during Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra, underscoring the significance of elephants in Odisha's religious and cultural traditions.
The project was inaugurated in Puri during Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra, underscoring the significance of elephants in Odisha's religious and cultural traditions.
A plantation worker was killed in a wild elephant attack at Kattikulam, near Mananthavady in Kerala’s Wayanad district on Wednesday. The incident adds to a troubling series of intensifying human-wildlife conflict in the region.
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.
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.
Odisha, which is home to 2,013 elephants as per the latest census conducted in last November, is annually losing 81 pachyderms since the last three years, Forest Minister Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia told the Assembly on Wednesday.
In a tragic incident, two people were killed and several others injured after two elephants ran amok during a festival at Manakulangara Temple at Kuruvangad near Koyilandy in Kerala’s Kozhikode district on Thursday.
In the Kanksha block of West Burdwan district, the forest department has escorted the Madhyamik examinees with their Airavat vehicle safely to the centres.
