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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicMaharashtra forest department

Topic: Maharashtra forest department

‘Missing wildlife, animals not released in habitat’: NGO that ran Pune zoo rescue centre under govt lens

Panel examining wildlife warden Paranjpe's report on 'mismanagement' likely to submit findings this week. Indian Herpetological Society, which managed now-closed centre, denies wrongdoing.

Tigress Avni was not killed in self-defence, conservation body says in scathing report

Report by NTCA has found a series of unauthorised actions that led to the killing of Avni, the alleged man-eating tigress, in Maharashtra last month.

Why some activists suspect two of three cubs killed by train in Maharashtra may be Avni’s

Activists have questioned the distance between the carcasses, and said the photos from the accident site looked staged.

It was a sad day for us: Maharashtra forest officials react to tigress Avni’s death

Union minister Maneka Gandhi severely criticised Avni’s killing but Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar defended this as an act of self-defence.

Orphaned, tigress Avni’s 10-month-old cubs stare at death or captivity

Tigress Avni, a suspected man-eater, was killed in a late-night operation in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.