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TopicStray dogs

Topic: stray dogs

Rocky, Tipsy, Kallu—This animal lovers WhatsApp group is bringing Diwali runaways back home

The WhatsApp group with more than 200 volunteers, emerged during G20 when the civic body was rounding up strays. It has redirected its resources this festive season.

‘Rs 10,000 per tooth mark’ — Punjab & Haryana HC fixes compensation for dog bites in public spaces

In order disposing of 193 petitions, the HC also issues guidelines for compensation with respect to accidents and incidents that occur due to animals on public roads.

Pakistan and India have one thing in common— a stray dog problem

In a posh area in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority, strays have suddenly vanished, and residents are claiming that they have been culled by the municipal body.

After G20, animal rights activists demand overhaul of MCD veterinary dept — ‘act only on complaints’

MCD's alleged mishandling of dogs before G20 puts a spotlight on issues plaguing civic body's animal control programme. Even court says Delhi's 'stray dog menace' needs urgent resolution.

People For Animals, other NGOs set to move court against MCD over removal of stray dogs ahead of G20

PFA trustee Gauri Maulekhi says improper methods used to pick up the dogs and none of them were tagged, which increases risk of bite cases since the dogs might get relocated.

MCD drive to catch stray dogs ahead of G20 enrages activists. ‘Shoved in vans, nooses around necks’

Municipal Corporation of Delhi says allegations are 'highly exaggerated'. Animals activists, feeders say MCD drive a 'betrayal' since it comes after action plan on the same was scrapped.

Citizen scientists help spot 1st ‘wolf-dog’ in Pune. Why it’s bad for Indian wolf population

Citizen scientists from The Grassland Trust collaborated with researchers from Bengaluru-based National Centre for Biological Sciences. Findings published in Ecology and Evolution journal.

79% Indians say stray dog attacks ‘common’ in their areas, give civic bodies a thumbs down: Survey

Percentage up from 61% last year, says LocalCircles. Moreover, 71% respondents want govt to make stray animal management effectiveness a criteria for Swachh Bharat rankings.

Morning walker mauled to death by stray dogs inside Aligarh Muslim University campus

Safdar Ali, a resident of a locality adjoining the AMU campus, was out on a morning walk in a garden at Sir Syed Museum when a pack of stray dogs attacked him, police said.

Dog feeders are ‘urban naxals’, says RWA after stray ‘beaten to death’ in Greater Noida society

Cops have booked unidentified RWA officials, security guards of upscale society after the stray dog was allegedly beaten to death. Another such case was reported from Noida Phase 2.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.