Jharkhand, which ranks third in the country in terms of human fatalities because of elephant attack, will be raising ex-gratia compensation for the victim’s family. State transport and tribal w...

A herd of tuskers trampled to death a person and injured two at a village in Bankura’s Jhagrapur area early on Thursday. Sources said a herd of seven adult tuskers and four calves wandered into...

Elephants from Bengal are damaging standing crops and targeting villagers at Chakulia block of East Singhbhum, 90 km from Jamshedpur, and Jharkhand foresters cite a trench dug along the Bengal bo...

That incident prompted us to draw up the new plan for our puja pandal,” said Rabindra Baske, treasurer of the puja committee. Puja organisers said they  contacted local artisan Santu Mahat...

Dhanbad: A 50-year-old woman of Palma village of Tundi block, Fuku Devi, about 40km from Dhanbad district headquarters was trampled to death by two elephants of a herd of 22 on Friday night when she w...

A wild elephant, which had got separated from its herd, killed a 48-year-old hearing impaired woman in Bankura’s Beliatore early on Wednesday. Sources said Urmila Ghosh, a resident of Dihipara ...

An elephant, which has pulled down homes in different villages and also wiped out foodstock, is giving sleepless nights to foresters of Chandil range of the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district.&nbs...

Six shops and an adjacent hutment at Bagrakote, ward 20 of Siliguri, were gutted in a blaze that broke out around 2.30am on Saturday. The fire also damaged four two-wheelers and an e-rickshaw parked ...

A herd of 24 wild elephants killed an elderly man and a woman in two separate incidents in the Daru and Tatijharia blocks of Hazaribagh, over Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon. The first inciden...

Chandil forest range has received Rs 28.2 lakh from the state forest department on Wednesday for making payments of compensation to the villagers for the damage of crops and houses by wild elephants i...