11 teen girls rescued at Athagarh, 2 held
Athagarh: The Railway police rescued 11 teen girls of Athagarh and neighbouring Dhenkanal at Ghantikhal station here on Wednesday morning, when they were waiting for a Bhubaneswar-bound train to reach the State capital and then, move to Chennai from there through two brokers. Brokers Sahadev Sahoo and Kuni Patra were arrested.
Tuskers crush elderly man to death in S’garh
Rourkela: In a yet another elephant attack, a 55-year-old person was trampled to death by an elephant herd in Gopapur village here in wee hours on Wednesday. The body was sent for autopsy, while victim’s kin were paid 10,000 for performing the last rituals.
Birsa Zoo set to reclaim wild assets
Ranchi: It was a shock for animal lovers of Jharkhand when fatal Babesiosis had killed six inmates at the Birsa Zoological Park and forced five lions and a tigress to migrate to the Indira Gandhi Zoological Rescue Centre at Vishakhapatanam in 2006. Now it is payback time for Vizag and to cheer back home. The Birsa Zoo is all set to reclaim its assets from the “treasurer” where it has been kept safely for over the last seven years now.
“We have written a letter on January 4 to Vishakhapatanam center to reclaim at least one pair of lion and one pair of tiger against the animals sent there due to health concerns,” AK Patra, Director of Birsa Zoological Park told The Pioneer on Wednesday.