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Topic: Leopard

With a leopard on the move in east Delhi, forest officials scout the area to consider rewilding options

A camera trap set by a wildlife photographer captured the leopard near Jagatpur village by Yamuna Biodiversity Park. Officials are assessing if it’s local or just passing through.

Growing at 1.08% annually, India’s leopard population estimated at 13,874, says report

The report found that population growth was fueled by creation of new protected areas, as well as the reduction of habitat loss caused by human activities.

Forest department deploys drones to locate elusive leopard in Delhi’s Neb Sarai

The leopard was spotted near a farmhouse in the Neb Sarai area on the border of Delhi and Haryana Friday. It has not been seen since then.

Not just laddus at Tirumala, devotees walking to shrine get lathis to scare off wild animals

10,000 lathis procured for pilgrims who walk to shrine. This is after increasing leopard sightings & two attacks on children on 11 km footpath passing through hilly, jungle terrain.

Orphaned and exposed, why these Indian leopard cubs can’t return to the wild

Orphan leopards can seldom be released in the wild, but there is no space for them in zoos and rescue centres.

Covid spilling over to free-ranging animals? Dead leopard cub had Delta, didn’t die of it

Case was detected at a time when infection levels had dropped significantly in humans, says 12 January report by scientists from Indian Veterinary Research Institute.

A leopard walked into Delhi’s Yamuna Park. Then an AAP minister illegally took it out

In ‘Wild and Wilful’, Neha Sinha writes that the re-wilding of the barren Yamuna Biodiversity Park was so successful that an apex predator walked in — only to be removed for ‘its own safety’.

Why Indian leopards switched from ‘healthy salad’ to ‘risky junk’

In ‘Leopard Diaries’, Sanjay Gubbi writes that unlike the tiger, the leopard is not a choosy eater — but what it eats usually is fast running out where it lives in India.

Leopard spotted in Delhi’s Najafgarh area, alert issued

According to the forest department, the leopard was first caught on CCTV camera on 27 January. Officials have found pugmarks in the area but the big cat is yet to be traced.

Why capturing & translocating leopards won’t work in India’s dense cities

Across India, leopards pass human habitations every night without incident. This invisible domain of neutral interaction deserves better recognition.

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India can’t fight Trump tariffs with emotion. Smart talks, sector relief, reforms are key

India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.

Amid Trump’s tariff bombs, India’s business with America surged while imports from Russia dipped 10%

As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?