City mayor, a local BJP MLA and a former party legislator are among the 40 people whom the Ayodhya Development Authority has accused of illegally trading plots and building infrastructure in such land...

"The offenders have admitted that the turtles were being trafficked from Odisha in the wee hours of June 12. The plan was to sell them in local markets. However, the turtles suddenly died due to ...

The Bengal government has decided to form a special forest squad to prevent wildlife crimes including poaching and trafficking of wildlife in north Bengal following a spate of recoveries of animal par...

Captive creatures Sir — Elephants are the only wild animals that can be legally owned by a private individual in India — an anomaly that needed to be corrected. Instead, if the wildlife (...

The north Bengal frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) has drawn up plans to plug unfenced areas along the India-Bangladesh border, install anti-climb and anti-cut wires and other gadgets to bee...

Kaliachak in Malda district turned into a battlefield on Monday night as rival groups of smugglers and gangsters attacked each other in at least two locations to gain control over narcotics smuggling ...

Police Commissionerate (Bhubaneswar-Cuttack) on Monday busted a sex racket that was running in the city in the guise of a consultancy firm. The owner of the firm, Laxmi Narayan Patnaik, was arrested ...

Dhanbad: Two new CNG stations, established with the help of GAIL Gas Limited, will be inaugurated on Tuesday, including one at Nirsa Service Station at Nirsa block and another at Gupta Petol Pump of P...

More than 250 Alexandrine parakeets were seized from a bus near the Babughat bus stand on Sunday morning. Forest department officials said the bus had started from Ranchi and the birds were to be del...

A police team investigating the January 3 blast at an illegal firecracker unit in Naihati, in which five persons had been killed, found out that a Madhya Pradesh-based racket was supplying explosive m...