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Topic: Rhino

Rhinos roamed all of north India 3,000 years ago. How did they get confined to Kaziranga

Researchers from Lucknow’s Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences mapped how the population and movement of rhinos were impacted by human activities and climatic conditions.

ThePrint photos of the week: Carney in India, Kaziranga’s ‘Van Durgas’ & Bengaluru’s badminton boom

New Delhi: From constables on night patrol in Kaziranga and the park’s decades-long recovery in rhino population, to PM Modi's meetings with Canadian Prime...

Tamil Nadu had rhinos 3,600 yrs ago. New study shows wildlife diversity, trade links with coast

Earlier studies have found rhinoceros remains, rhino motifs in Odisha and even in Harappan civilisation sites in Haryana, but not in the Southern Neolithic Zone.

Jeep safaris only: Parts of Assam’s Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve reopen for tourists

Kaziranga is famed for being home to 2/3rd of the global one-horned rhinoceros population. The national park also has 121 tigers.

How saving the rhino became as commercial an enterprise in Kaziranga as poaching

In ‘Homeland Insecurities’, Sanjay Barbora writes how a wildlife conservationist’s job in India oscillates between criminal investigation and paralegal aid to forest department.

In message against poaching, Assam to burn 2,479 recovered rhino horns on World Rhino Day

The destruction of the horns, recovered from poachers and dead animals over four decades, will take place publicly Wednesday at Bokahat Stadium ground in Golaghat district.

Why scientists are hanging rhinos upside-down from helicopters

We need to protect rhinos. And this experiment has already won the 2021 Ig Nobel Transportation Prize.

Was Harappa wet or arid? Rhinos hold a clue

In ‘Mega Mammals in Ancient India’, Shibani Bose explains how the moisture-loving Indian rhinoceros survived in Harappan times.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Too early to draw lessons from US-Israel & Iran war, India monitoring like a hawk—Navy chief

Indian Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said that the ongoing conflict in West Asia illustrates that speed is no longer merely an enabler of warfare but a distinct capability.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.