Wildlife activists shocked at jail suspension of Sansar Chand

September 15th, 2009 PANAJI - Goa Forest Minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues has said that the state wildlife board would look into a controversial forensic report of a suspected case of tiger poaching, the first in the state. Rodrigues told reporters in Panaji Tuesday that the board, which is headed by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, will decide the further course of action.

September 13th, 2009 PANAJI - Wildlife activists in Goa are incensed over a government report into a tiger poaching incident in the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in February that states that the killed animal was not a tiger. Chief conservator of forests Goa, Shashi Kumar, in a selective leak to the media on Friday had said that forensic examination of the suspected tiger remains by the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehra Dun had revealed that the poached animal was not a tiger.

September 12th, 2009 KANPUR - Panic prevailed at the zoo following the mysterious death of 13 spotted and one swamp deer Saturday. There was neither any sign of injury nor could the post-mortem carried out by a team of expert vets reveal the cause of death.

August 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Three men were arrested Monday in Uttar Pradesh's Shravasti district for killing peacocks and three carcasses of the birds were seized from them, police said. "Mohd. Arman Khan, Chand Mohammad and Azizur Rehman, who had shot the peacocks Sunday, were arrested today (Monday) from the Bantiwa area in Shravasti," police inspector Satyakant Yadav told reporters.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A tigress and lion in a Chinese Wildlife Park have finally mated, and authorities now looking forward to first liger species. The four-and-half-year-old tigress and the lion were deliberately kept in a single cage at the Badaling Wildlife Park in Beijing.

July 15th, 2009 5 black bears shot, killed in Utah this monthSALT LAKE CITY — Utah wildlife officials say people have killed five black bears in the last two weeks, mostly bruins that wandered into campgrounds or were found eating livestock. The number is unusually high and state biologists are puzzled by what has caused the increase.

July 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chand Mohammed, the former Haryana deputy chief minister, was admitted to a hospital here with multiple fractures and hip dislocation, sources close to his family said Wednesday. Chand Mohammed, who has been in the midst of controversy since last year when he converted to Islam and got married to Anuradha Bali, the additional advocate general in Haryana, was admitted to the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Tuesday evening.

July 3rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Giving a boost to its forestry and wildlife, Haryana is all set to declare the distance of up to 5,000 metres surrounding its major national parks and wildlife sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones. "After the lapse of so many years, our efforts for sustainable development and environment protection has resulted in a draft notification of 10 eco-sensitive zones (surrounding two national parks and eight wildlife sanctuaries) in the state by the union ministry of forest and environment," Haryana Minister of Forests and Environment Kiran Choudhry told reporters here Friday.

June 29th, 2009 Motorist investigated in bird deaths at Wash. parkOCEAN PARK, Wash.

June 18th, 2009 Wolverine confirmed in Colo., the first since 1919DENVER — Wildlife officials say they've tracked a wild wolverine into Colorado, the first time the animal has appeared in the state in 90 years. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said Thursday a wolverine that researchers have been tracking since early April has crossed into northern Colorado.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Where is Chander Mohan alias Chand Mohammed? The former Haryana deputy chief minister seems to be eluding not only his estranged second wife Fiza but also his Congress party and people in his constituency. Besides Fiza - alias Anuradha Bali - whom he married after changing his religion but sent a 'talaq' (divorce) SMS soon after, people in the Kalka assembly seat, which he has represented four times, are also waiting to hear from him as the general elections are around the corner.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking suspension of his conviction for possession of illegal arms during the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings to enable him to fight the forthcoming general elections. Dutt has been sentenced to six years in jail and is currently out on bail.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking suspension of his conviction for possessing firearms during the 1993 Mumbai serial terror bombings to enable him fight the forthcoming general elections. Dutt, who was sentenced to six years in jail by an anti-terror court, moved the court seeking parity with cricketer-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentarian Navjot Singh Sidhu, whose conviction in a case of unintentional killing was stayed by the apex court in 2007 to enable him run for elections.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Kerala MP A.P. Abdullakutty, suspended from the party for praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Monday insisted he had committed no wrong.

December 25th, 2008 NEW DELHI - An altercation over a wooden ladder escalated into a major quarrel between neighbours in which two people were killed and four injured in the capital Friday, police said. The quarrel broke out between Shamshad and Abdullah in Shastri Park area of northeast Delhi around noon.