New Zealand, Tonga, Tahiti & Cook Islands grant cetaceans 'legal person' status. The animals are protected not only for their high cognition but also for their importance to ecosystems.
The more-than-century-old story of policing how humans treat animals—sometimes bizarre, sometimes tragic—shows complex questions of class and culture are involved, too.
After protests against proposed draft by those who believe it would result in animal cruelty, dept of animal husbandry & dairying says time is needed 'to make further comments'.
Draft Live-stock and Live-stock products (Importation and Exportation) Bill, 2023 aimed at framing measures to regulate trade. #saynotolivestockbill2023 trends on Twitter.
Maneka Gandhi, who started the Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre, said the temporary closing is to ensure upgraded infrastructure, better staffing and animal sensitivity training.
From Mughal ports to Dutch wars to Bombay’s merchant dynasties, Gujarati Muslims once shaped the Indian Ocean world — long before one of their descendants took New York.
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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