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Topic: Rhino

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

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India expands Southeast Asia defence footprint with new joint venture in Philippines

Memorandum of understanding between SMPP and ADFC was signed during state visit of Philippines’ President to India earlier this month.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.