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Topic: leopards

Bengaluru is running out of leopard shelter space. People’s panic isn’t helping

The leopard population in Bengaluru's Bannerghatta Rescue Centre has reached an all-time high, straining space and finances. Social media-fuelled fear is making it worse.

Predator pornography is a thing. It was born out of shikaar writing on man-eating leopards

In ‘Leopard Diaries,’ Sanjay Gubbi gives us a 360-degree view of the leopard, its ecological context and its fraught relationship with the human world.

Why some leopards become ‘crooked’ man-eaters—the conspiracies

In Crooked Cats, Nayanika Mathur says the intentionality behind the appearance of dangerous animals is often assumed, with the state accused of conspiracy to murder.

New book places 3 big cats at center of climate crisis & what makes them ‘man-eaters’

Published by HarperCollins, ‘Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene’ by Nayanika Mathur will be released on 11 October on ThePrint's Softcover.

Leopards in concrete jungle of Mumbai may be saving its residents from stray dogs

Leopards are known for their attacks on humans, but in fact leopards save them by hunting and killing dogs in and around their villages.

On Camera

Why the thriving Indian diaspora in the US is not an asset anymore

The excessive publicity about Indian success stories and their high income and wealth levels has begun to breed envy and resentment in non-elite Americans.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

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?