Udesh Ganjhu alias Sukul, subzonal commander of Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) who was carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head surrendered in front of senior police and Cobra officials in SP offi...

An officer of the Central Police Reserve Force’s (CRPF) forest warfare unit, Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), was killed and nine others were injured when Maoists caused an IED bl...

A bunch of cobras was allegedly beaten to death at a village in Nadia on Thursday. The owner of the house where the snakes were allegedly killed was picked up by the forest department but released la...

Trapping serpents comes easy to Rajni Lahel, a 52-year-old whose desire to do something different led her to foray into a risky job. “Duniya se hat kar kuch karna chahti hu (I wanted to do some...

The Assam government, the 175th battalion of the CRPF, villagers and relatives paid tributes to martyr and “risky job lover” Sunil Kalita, a soldier of the 209 Cobra Battalion who was injured figh...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the Indian cobra, gaining hitherto unknown insights into its venom’s molecular makeup that they say could lead to more effective anti-venom therapy and new me...

Five monocled cobras, known for their highly toxic venom and O-shaped hood, were found in possession of four men in Patharpratima in South 24-Parganas on Monday. The men were arrested for illegal poss...

An awareness campaign against killing snakes saved a cobra from being beaten to death in Pakur, around 515km from here, on Sunday.One Somnath Mandal, a resident of Chandpur village on Bengal border, f...

Fifteen personnel of the CRPF and the state police were injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals in Jharkhand's Seraikela Kharsawan district in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said.The blast ...

Assam’s Sunil Kalita, 32, of the 209 CoBRA battalion, passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, around 7.40pm on Thursday evening. Kalita, who hailed from Palara village...