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Sunday, December 21, 2025
TopicAnimal welfare

Topic: Animal welfare

Ahead of a Travis Scott concert & a half marathon, a doggone disaster for JLN Stadium

Days after 2 foreign coaches bitten, high drama at JLN as van full of stray dogs waited all day outside while activists accused admin of violating SC order by not letting the dogs back in.

Delhi’s sterilisation centres key to managing human-stray dog conflict. But they’re all blood & filth

Friendicoes says need of the hour was for vets, authorities & NGOs to collectively discuss how to remedy challenges faced by some ABC units, and what can be done to find solutions.

World association suspends Delhi Zoo for 6 months over case of ‘chained’ African elephant Shankar

Failure to comply with WAZA order can lead to indefinite suspension, world body warns. In 2020, ThePrint had reported how Delhi High Court had stepped for well-being of Shankar.

Kedarnath pilgrimage is injuring mules—8,000 overworked animals, 1 medical shelter

200 mules died in Kedarnath in 2022, and 115 died in 2023. 20 animals have already died in the first 20 days of 2024. But these are only the official, registered deaths.


Supporting animal welfare: South Korea’s parliament passes bill to end eating, selling of dog meat

Support for the ban has grown under President Yoon Suk Yeol, an animal lover who has adopted 6 dogs and 8 cats with first lady Kim Keon Hee, also a vocal critic of dog meat trade.

Delhi’s govt vet hospitals are broken. Private care for the rich pets

The government's veterinary care hospitals in Delhi are in bad shape, with premises being used for activities like badminton and ludo, and some left abandoned.

Elvish Yadav booked for ‘supplying snake venom for rave parties’. How Maneka Gandhi’s PFA ‘laid trap’

Five people, including an 'accomplice' of Elvish Yadav, have been arrested. Big Boss OTT winner has put out video denying allegations.

Even dogs can be right or left-handed. Science tells you how to know the difference

Unlike in humans, paw preference appears to be roughly evenly split. Handedness in dogs is therefore specific to the individual, rather than the population.

Over 2,500 dead seals wash up on Russia’s Caspian sea coast

Environmental specialists are continuing measures to count the number of dead seals, but their cause of death is still unclear.

Dogs are millionaires in Gujarat village. Thank the Mughals

The 200-odd dogs collectively own 26 bighas of land. The property has gained in value over the years but the villagers won't let anyone put a price on it.

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.