Woman Forest Officer

A woman in Odisha's Kandhamal district allegedly killed her four-year-old daughter and buried the body in a nearby forest, a police officer said on Wednesday.

Charred bodies of three Mizoram residents, including a woman, were found in a jungle inside Myanmar near the international border, a senior police officer said on Friday.

A 40-year-old woman who had gone to defecate in a forest here in Nagina town's Kaziwala village was killed by a leopard, a forest officer said on Sunday.

A pregnant forest ranger was grabbed by the hair, pushed to the ground and kicked, allegedly by a former sarpanch and his wife in Maharashtra's Satara district, after a dispute over labourers working with the forest department.

Footage of a woman forest officer dancing in the rain in Odisha's Similipal is winning hearts on social media. Sneha Dhal was filmed dancing in the downpour, hands outstretched and a big smile on her face, celebrating the welcome arrival of rain after raging wildfires destroyed large tracts of the Simlipal National Park.

Telangana forest officer C Anitha, allegedly attacked by a local TRS leader when she went to plant trees at a depleted forest area, has been charged under the SC/ ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act) after a tribal woman alleged that she and her staff abused her and others while they were working in their fields that day.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that the Centre has taken the assault on a woman forest officer by the brother of a Telangana Rashtra Samithi lawmaker in Asifabad district of Telangana seriously.

A 1985 batch Indian Forest Service officer has become the first woman officer to take over as the director of the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun.

Senior Indian Forest Service officer Surendra Prasad Mohapatra, detained by Pennsylvania police and charged with indecent assault after a woman hotel worker complained against him, has been released on bail. Mohapatra will appear in court for a preliminary hearing on August 1 in a Pennsylvania court.

A woman was mauled to death and a girl injured in a crocodile attack in near Tirput canal in Valmikinagar Tiger Reserve area today. The crocodile, which was resting in a field in the tiger reserve in Bihar's West Champaran district, attacked the 40 year-old woman and 14 year-old girl while they were working there, District Forest Officer (DFO) Nand...

A woman in Odisha's Kandhamal district allegedly killed her four-year-old daughter and buried the body in a nearby forest, a police officer said on Wednesday.

Charred bodies of three Mizoram residents, including a woman, were found in a jungle inside Myanmar near the international border, a senior police officer said on Friday.

A 40-year-old woman who had gone to defecate in a forest here in Nagina town's Kaziwala village was killed by a leopard, a forest officer said on Sunday.

A pregnant forest ranger was grabbed by the hair, pushed to the ground and kicked, allegedly by a former sarpanch and his wife in Maharashtra's Satara district, after a dispute over labourers working with the forest department.

Footage of a woman forest officer dancing in the rain in Odisha's Similipal is winning hearts on social media. Sneha Dhal was filmed dancing in the downpour, hands outstretched and a big smile on her face, celebrating the welcome arrival of rain after raging wildfires destroyed large tracts of the Simlipal National Park.

Telangana forest officer C Anitha, allegedly attacked by a local TRS leader when she went to plant trees at a depleted forest area, has been charged under the SC/ ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act) after a tribal woman alleged that she and her staff abused her and others while they were working in their fields that day.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that the Centre has taken the assault on a woman forest officer by the brother of a Telangana Rashtra Samithi lawmaker in Asifabad district of Telangana seriously.

A 1985 batch Indian Forest Service officer has become the first woman officer to take over as the director of the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun.

Senior Indian Forest Service officer Surendra Prasad Mohapatra, detained by Pennsylvania police and charged with indecent assault after a woman hotel worker complained against him, has been released on bail. Mohapatra will appear in court for a preliminary hearing on August 1 in a Pennsylvania court.

A woman was mauled to death and a girl injured in a crocodile attack in near Tirput canal in Valmikinagar Tiger Reserve area today. The crocodile, which was resting in a field in the tiger reserve in Bihar's West Champaran district, attacked the 40 year-old woman and 14 year-old girl while they were working there, District Forest Officer (DFO) Nand...