Elephant Kills People

The meat will be distributed to those affected as part of a drought relief program. This comes amid an ongoing El Nino-induced drought that has impacted 68 million people in Southern Africa, leading to widespread food shortages.

A 55-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district, forest department officials said on Thursday.

Kerala Health Minister Veena George assured the family that the government would provide adequate compensation to the family as early as possible.

A tusker has allegedly killed 16 people in five Jharkhand districts in the past 12 days with four in a block in Ranchi district alone on Tuesday, forest officials said.

Two people were killed after being attacked by wild elephants in Assam's Charaideo district on Monday.

A 40-year-old man was trampled to death when he was sleeping in his house at Dangarsahi village in the district on Tuesday.

At least three people including a child were killed in a wild elephant attack in Assam's Goalpara district along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

A rogue elephant has killed at least 16 villagers in the past two months in Jharkhand after likely being expelled from his herd "for bad behaviour", a wildlife official said on Thursday.

A Supreme Court lawyer has written to the Chief Justice of India seeking his intervention in ending cruelty towards animals. His letter cited a recent incident in which an elephant was set afire by some people in Tamil Nadu who threw a burning tyre on it. The jumbo later succumbed to the burn injuries. The video of the incident had gone viral on so...

A high-level team has been formed to investigate the killing of the pregnant elephant in Kerala, with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan promising strict action against the people responsible. The elephant -- which had come out of the Silent Valley in search of food and wandered close to villages -- had eaten a fruit stuffed with firecrackers.

Amid the outpouring of rage and grief for the pregnant elephant that died after eating a cracker-filled fruit, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has promised "strict action" against the people responsible. "The Forest Department is probing the case and the culprits will be brought to book," he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Four people, including a two-year-old boy, were trampled to death by an elephant in a village near Jharkhand's Ranchi today, an official said.

Five people, including a woman and two girls, were killed when a wild elephant strayed into different villages of Odisha's Angul district, officials said on Friday.

A temple elephant brought for an house warming function ran amok, killing two elderly people near Guruvayur in Kerala on Friday, police said.

The government told parliament last year that 1,100 people had been killed in the previous three years. The elephants too are paying a heavy price with around 700 fatalities in the last eight years across the country.

The meat will be distributed to those affected as part of a drought relief program. This comes amid an ongoing El Nino-induced drought that has impacted 68 million people in Southern Africa, leading to widespread food shortages.

A 55-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district, forest department officials said on Thursday.

Kerala Health Minister Veena George assured the family that the government would provide adequate compensation to the family as early as possible.

A tusker has allegedly killed 16 people in five Jharkhand districts in the past 12 days with four in a block in Ranchi district alone on Tuesday, forest officials said.

Two people were killed after being attacked by wild elephants in Assam's Charaideo district on Monday.

A 40-year-old man was trampled to death when he was sleeping in his house at Dangarsahi village in the district on Tuesday.

At least three people including a child were killed in a wild elephant attack in Assam's Goalpara district along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

A rogue elephant has killed at least 16 villagers in the past two months in Jharkhand after likely being expelled from his herd "for bad behaviour", a wildlife official said on Thursday.

A Supreme Court lawyer has written to the Chief Justice of India seeking his intervention in ending cruelty towards animals. His letter cited a recent incident in which an elephant was set afire by some people in Tamil Nadu who threw a burning tyre on it. The jumbo later succumbed to the burn injuries. The video of the incident had gone viral on so...

A high-level team has been formed to investigate the killing of the pregnant elephant in Kerala, with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan promising strict action against the people responsible. The elephant -- which had come out of the Silent Valley in search of food and wandered close to villages -- had eaten a fruit stuffed with firecrackers.

Amid the outpouring of rage and grief for the pregnant elephant that died after eating a cracker-filled fruit, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has promised "strict action" against the people responsible. "The Forest Department is probing the case and the culprits will be brought to book," he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Four people, including a two-year-old boy, were trampled to death by an elephant in a village near Jharkhand's Ranchi today, an official said.

Five people, including a woman and two girls, were killed when a wild elephant strayed into different villages of Odisha's Angul district, officials said on Friday.

A temple elephant brought for an house warming function ran amok, killing two elderly people near Guruvayur in Kerala on Friday, police said.

The government told parliament last year that 1,100 people had been killed in the previous three years. The elephants too are paying a heavy price with around 700 fatalities in the last eight years across the country.