Indian farmers poison 50 rare jackals
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At least 50 rare jackals were poisoned to death in northern India by farmers angry over alleged attacks on children and damage to crops blamed on the animals, a forest official said Tuesday.
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More than 100 cotton growers killed   themselves in India's richest state in August, marking the   highest monthly number of suicides in five years by farmers   whose mounting crop loans drive them to death, activists said.
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MADRAS, India  - India's most wanted bandit, accused of murdering police officers, slaughtering elephants and kidnapping a movie star, was killed Monday in a jungle shootout with police after more than three decades on the run, authorities said.
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PTI Dharmapuri/Chennai Oct 19: One of the countryâs longest and expensive manhunts ended midnight last night with the killing of dreaded forest brigand Koose Munisamy Veerappan and three of his close associates in a shootout in a trap laid by the
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KOLKATA, India  - Thousands of protected birds are   being killed in India's West Bengal state to meet demand from   drummers who want to decorate their instruments with feathers,   officials and activists said.
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India's army said Sunday it killed five militants as they tried to sneak into the Indian portion of Kashmir from Pakistan. Two soldiers were also killed in the gunbattle.
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It is one of the oldest conflicts between man and beast: farmers killing marauders such as wolves, lynxes, lions and leopards to defend their livestock from the predators.
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By GAVIN RABINOWITZ NEW DELHI - Poachers killed three highly endangered Asiatic lions in their only remaining sanctuary in western India, removing their claws and bones and raising fears for the future of these rare cats, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
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India's most wanted bandit, accused of murdering police officers, slaughtering elephants and kidnapping a movie star, was killed Monday in a jungle shootout with police after more than three decades on the run, authorities said.
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CALCUTTA, India - When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame - until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.
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Indian troops shot dead two rebels who had infiltrated into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistan-controlled zone, while two separatists and nine other people were detained in the region, officials said.
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The Malayalam film takes up the cause of farmers' suicides.
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India News, Dharmapuri (Tamil Nadu), Oct 19 (IANS) Veerappan, India&#39;s most wanted and most elusive brigand who murdered with impunity, was finally shot dead in his jungle hideout by elite commandos using some of the very tactics he employed for well over
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CHANDIGARH, India  - Twenty-one lions are dying in   a zoo in north India after a cross-breeding experiment to boost   the park's attractions went disastrously wrong.
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South West farmers say a poacher is responsible for the "disgusting" shooting of a rare white stag.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Pakistani jet fighters and  helicopter gunships pounded a suspected terrorist training camp  near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 50 mostly  foreign militants.
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Koose Muniswamy Veerappan (right), India&#39;s Most Wanted bandit, was accused of chopping up more than 100 people he&#39;s thought to have killed.