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Sunday, August 2, 2026
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Topic: Conservation

Darbhanga museum sent many reminders to conservation team for 7 yrs. Now a letter reaches Modi

Lucknow-based NRLC took an advance of Rs 82.5 lakh, made one conservation visit to Darbhanga, and never returned, leaving work on over 150 rare artefacts unfinished.

Three lion cubs were born at the Delhi zoo. CCTV cams keeping an eye on them

The zoo houses six adult Asiatic lions including three males — Sundaram, Maheshwar, and Kartik — and three females — Mahagauri, Shailja, and Karni.

Haryana’s Mangar Bani forest is cursed by its proximity to Delhi, says author Neha Sinha

Mangar Bani’s rocky hills and ancient dhau trees fall along the Central Asian Flyway, welcoming hundreds of migratory birds every year.

Margaret Atwood shows her new bird centre to fans. Don’t judge her video-making skills

Margaret Atwood is the Founding Honorary Chair and co-founder of PIBO, a conservation charity she started with her late partner, writer and conservationist Graeme Gibson.

The fragile fight to save Great Indian Bustard: In Kutch, windmills, power lines & a missing VIP chick

A chick was hatched in Kutch through an egg swap, then lost within a month. Around the sanctuary, threats to Great Indian Bustard remain in place & an SC order remains unenforced.

Restoring Punjab’s Haveli Diwan Hari Chand—the project is all about gurbani sangeet

‘This MoU is not about renting a picturesque old house,' said The Anad Foundation’s Bhai Baldeep Singh. He wants to turn the Kapurthala haveli into a home for endangered music.

The Global Big Cat Summit is the only win for conservation in Budget 2026

The biggest decrease was in the budget for the Indian Institute of Forest Management, which went from Rs 10 crore in 2025-26 to Rs 3 lakh in 2026-27.

How reels and posts helped researchers document India’s rare sharks and rays

One of the authors of the study said they identified two rare species of shark, which were last seen in 2014, by scanning social media posts.

Conservation is not anti-development, it’s a science and an art, says Ratish Nanda of Aga Khan Trust

The project director of Aga Khan Trust delivered a lecture titled ‘Conservation-led Development in India’ on the 88th birth anniversary of Shankar Dayal Singh at the IIC.

You won’t dig this—ASI’s budget doubled in last 10 yrs, but it spent less than 1% on excavations

New Delhi: Conservation, exploration and excavation come to mind whenever the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is talked about. Turns out excavation is the...

On Camera

Ajinkya Rahane’s farewell closes the chapter on India’s greatest Test generation

Ajinkya Rahane was at the heart of India's rise under Kohli and Shastri. Nowhere was his understated value more immortalised than during the 2020–21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

In Delhi, an emotional farewell to former Army chief Gen VN Sharma with full state honours

The three service chiefs paid tributes, along with several former Army chiefs. Friends & fellow soldiers remember him as a 'natural charmer'.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.