A green mamba bite is much more difficult to treat. Most available antivenoms do not target spastic paralysis—a tightening of muscles due to a loss of control signals from the brain.
From myths to medicine, snakes inspire awe and fear. Most are harmless, vital pest-controllers & with awareness, co-existence is safer than killing them.
Our first cameraman ran away after doing a Google search on the King Cobra. The realisation that this is the world’s longest venomous snake, with no available antidote in India, never left us.
Team led by João Miguel Alves-Nunes studied snake defense mechanisms by gently stepping on jararacas. Findings, published in Scientific Reports, to help optimise antivenom distribution.
In ‘Snakes, Drugs And Rock ’N’ Roll’, Romulus Whitaker and his wife Janaki Lenin write about Whitaker’s childhood and his adventures before setting up the famed Chennai Snake Park.
Five men from Delhi's Molarband village arrested for alleged involvement in Noida rave saga in which YouTube Elvish Yadav is also a suspect. They're out on bail, but residents say damage done.
Hariom says Indian snakes are misunderstood. To reverse this, he runs a rescue centre in Buxar, uses Instagram Reels, and has developed a new repellent.
‘Well-entrenched institutional apathy' is how Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur defined it. 'New Delhi has the power to intervene at every level,' he said.
Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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