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Topic: stray dogs

MCD kicks off 3-phase plan to implement SC’s stray dogs order, targets ‘ferocious’ ones in 1st phase

First phase is ongoing, says veterinary services deputy director SK Yadav. This comes even as larger Supreme Court bench has reserved order on pleas challenging 11 August ruling.

Doctors write to CJI urging stay on SC stray dog order, warn against ‘zoonosis’ in overcrowded shelters

More than 10 letters & testimonials from doctors & vets, accessed by ThePrint, lay out the health challenges of locking up stray dogs in shelters, both for animals and humans.

Yudhishtira to Bhairava cherished dogs. It’s about our civilisational values

The court order seeking the rounding up of this companion of humans over millennia is a sad story of our times, where our civilisational values have been obscured.

Maria Gomes feeds over 300 stray dogs. She challenges the popular image of a dog lover

Gomes cooks all day long, and undertakes two rounds: The first at 5 am, when she takes an autorickshaw around and makes 22 stops; the second at 5 pm, on her little bicycle.

Stray dogs debate divides BJP & RSS—shelters vs sterilisation & ‘gau mata apathy’

New Delhi: The debate on stray dogs, sparked off after the Supreme Court ordered that all stray dogs in the NCR be sent to...

High number of dog bites & poor post-exposure vaccination coverage drive India’s rabies crisis

New Delhi: Coupled with an alarmingly high number of dog bites, poor post-exposure vaccination adherence has put India at the top of the list...

Preying on Olive Ridleys & even young wolves, how stray dogs have become a big threat to conservation

For years, environmentalists and biologists have stressed threat posed by packs of stray, feral dogs to endangered animals.

SC’s stray dog order fails Delhi. Courtroom absolutes don’t solve bad policy

What’s needed now is a policy-based solution. The situation cannot remain suspended between denial and inaction—it has already cost lives and money.

Stray dog ruling challenged: SC reserves order, govt cites ‘vocal minority versus suffering majority’

Those filing intervention applications against SC order will have to take up responsibility and file affidavits providing evidence to support their claims, top court says.

Biting terror, doggone dilemma, urban menace. Indian TV war over Delhi street dogs

News channels were also in two minds about removing stray dogs to the government dog pounds. NDTV took credit for it and CNN-News 18 called ‘controversial order’.

On Camera

Pakistan strategic pact with Saudi Arabia is really about Iran. And blessed by US

This agreement is not about Pakistan and Saudi Arabia looking Trump in the eye or Riyadh turning away from Washington. If anything, it could be termed as kosher proliferation.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.