Delhi Animal Welfare

Activists and NGOs working for the welfare of animals have alleged that municipal authorities are picking up stray dogs using nooses around their necks and keeping them in shelter homes under inhumane conditions.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the withdrawal of notification of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) on the celebration of February 14 as 'Cow Hug Day.'

Lt Governor VK Saxena has returned a file to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the nomination of members to the Delhi Animal Welfare Board, sources in the Lt Governor'soffice said on Wednesday.

A newborn girl found abandoned in a garbage bin earlier this month with an animal bite mark on her leg has been handed over to the Child Welfare Committee after treatment at a hospital in Delhi, officials said today.

The Delhi High Court Monday pulled up the Animals Welfare Board of India (AWBI) for not being aware of the whereabouts of animals, who were kept in the circus which have been shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic and for showing lack of care and aff

Delhi News: The national capital is likely to get its first wild animal rescue centre by the end of the year, forest department officials said on Wednesday. The facility will come up on a 1.24-acre plot in Rajokri where a monkey rescue centre is lying abandoned.

Delhi plans to create a special home for both elderly people and some of the city's thousands of cows, in a new animal welfare blitz also aimed at reducing numbers of monkeys and stray dogs.

Birth control of monkeys, a revised regime for sterilisation of stray dogs and electronic chips to identify owners of deserted pets and cattle are some of the measures that Delhi government's first policy on animal welfare recommends.

A 40-year-old truck driver from Delhi's Sultanpuri area has been arrested for brutally killing an owl with an intention to perform black magic that he believed would get a woman to be attracted to him, police said on Monday.

A man was shocked to find a scary python coiled up on his scooter. He promptly called animal welfare NGO Wildlife SOS for help.

With the rainy season going on, snake sightings have reportedly gone up in the Delhi. However, people at the National Technical Research Organisation found another reptile at their premises - a four-foot-long monitor lizard. They immediately alerted animal welfare NGO Wildlife SOS and the lizard was promptly removed from the location.

Activists and NGOs working for the welfare of animals have alleged that municipal authorities are picking up stray dogs using nooses around their necks and keeping them in shelter homes under inhumane conditions.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the withdrawal of notification of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) on the celebration of February 14 as 'Cow Hug Day.'

Lt Governor VK Saxena has returned a file to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the nomination of members to the Delhi Animal Welfare Board, sources in the Lt Governor'soffice said on Wednesday.

A newborn girl found abandoned in a garbage bin earlier this month with an animal bite mark on her leg has been handed over to the Child Welfare Committee after treatment at a hospital in Delhi, officials said today.

The Delhi High Court Monday pulled up the Animals Welfare Board of India (AWBI) for not being aware of the whereabouts of animals, who were kept in the circus which have been shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic and for showing lack of care and aff

Delhi News: The national capital is likely to get its first wild animal rescue centre by the end of the year, forest department officials said on Wednesday. The facility will come up on a 1.24-acre plot in Rajokri where a monkey rescue centre is lying abandoned.

Delhi plans to create a special home for both elderly people and some of the city's thousands of cows, in a new animal welfare blitz also aimed at reducing numbers of monkeys and stray dogs.

Birth control of monkeys, a revised regime for sterilisation of stray dogs and electronic chips to identify owners of deserted pets and cattle are some of the measures that Delhi government's first policy on animal welfare recommends.

A 40-year-old truck driver from Delhi's Sultanpuri area has been arrested for brutally killing an owl with an intention to perform black magic that he believed would get a woman to be attracted to him, police said on Monday.

A man was shocked to find a scary python coiled up on his scooter. He promptly called animal welfare NGO Wildlife SOS for help.

With the rainy season going on, snake sightings have reportedly gone up in the Delhi. However, people at the National Technical Research Organisation found another reptile at their premises - a four-foot-long monitor lizard. They immediately alerted animal welfare NGO Wildlife SOS and the lizard was promptly removed from the location.