Six houses damaged by wild elephant in Darjeeling

September 15th, 2009 RAIPUR - About a hundred families in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district have not slept since Sunday after a group of wild elephants sneaked into villages from a nearby forest, officials said Wednesday. Some 20 families have migrated temporarily to safer areas after five villagers were injured Tuesday while chasing away the jumbos from Sargawa and Chilma villages, some 420 km north of state capital Raipur.

September 1st, 2009 PATNA - An elephant Wednesday trampled a young man to death in a village in Saran district of Bihar, police said. Madan Thakur, in his 20s, was killed by the elephant near Chamrahiya village in Saran.

August 17th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand forest department is distributing mobile phones free of cost to keep track of movements of wild elephants that run amok in villages close to forest areas. Mobiles are being distributed to one member of the Joint Forest and Village Defence Committee (JFVDC) member of each village.

August 17th, 2009 JALPAIGURI - A female elephant cub, which was rescued few months back from a village in West Bengal, died on Sunday due to a stomach ulcer. The elephant cub, Aronno, was rescued from Rethi village after it got separated from its group.

August 16th, 2009 BINNAGURI - A rampaging adult female elephant was electrocuted at an Indian army camp at Binnaguri in West Bengal. The elephant, which came from the Chapramari forest, first damaged a number of houses before getting entangled in a school's electrified fencing.

August 16th, 2009 SILIGURI - Three of a family were among seven people killed in landslides triggered by heavy rains in the West Bengal hills Sunday. More casualties are feared, an official said.

July 29th, 2009 RAIPUR - Wild elephants trampled to death 10 people in the past three months in Chhattisgarh, the state assembly was informed Wednesday. Forest Minister Vikram Usendi told the house in a written reply that at least 10 people were trampled to death by wild tuskers in the state between April 1 and June 30.

July 23rd, 2009 SILIGURI - The disruption of popular toy train services in Darjeeling disappointed the tourists as the rail track was damaged by the landslides in the region. The tourists looking forward for a joy ride along Darjeeling Himalayan Railways had to change their plans.

May 30th, 2009 RAIPUR - Worried over the increasing incidences of man-elephant conflict, the Chhattisgarh government is planning to set up villages for wild elephants in areas hit hard by jumbo attacks, an official said Saturday. Such villages are proposed to be set up in the state's northern region where jumbo attacks have claimed the lives of dozens of people in the past two decades.

May 28th, 2009 SILIGURI - With the recovery of three more bodies, the toll in the landslides in West Bengal's hill district of Darjeeling due to Cyclone Aila has risen to 27, police said Thursday. "We have recovered three bodies from the debris at Rangiabong under Jorbungalow police station area this (Thursday) morning.

May 27th, 2009 SILIGURI - With the recovery of two more bodies, the toll in the landslides triggered by Cyclone Aila in West Bengal's hill district of Darjeeling rose to 24 Wednesday, the administration said. Forty people have been injured, while some were still missing after the landslides in several hill sub-divisions Tuesday, Darjeeling additional District Magistrate P.

May 26th, 2009 SILIGURI - At least 10 people were killed and 23 injured following landslides Tuesday in West Bengal's hill district Darjeeling, police said. "At least 10 people died and 23 were injured in landslides across Darjeeling district.

May 26th, 2009 SILIGURI - At least 22 people were killed and several injured in landslides - triggered by Cyclone Aila - in West Bengal's hill district of Darjeeling Tuesday, police said. "At least 22 people died and 10 were injured in landslides across Darjeeling district.

May 22nd, 2009 SILIGURI - A wild elephant killed two people in West Bengal's Darjeeling district Friday, a forest department official said. Sobha Chetri, 60, and Pradip Kishan, 22 were killed by the animal in Garidhura area in Kurseong sub-division of the district early Friday.

April 24th, 2009 Wild elephants kill 5 villagers in IndiaGAUHATI, India — Wild elephants demolished two thatched-roof huts, killing five villagers in a pre-dawn attack Friday in India's remote northeast, an official said. The dead included a woman and her two children, Magistrate Ishfaqur Rahman said.