New Delhi,  Delhi Police on Thursday said that it has arrested a YouTuber Gaurav Sharma for cruelty to animals, after he made a dog fly in the air when he tied the animal with a number of balloons filled with helium gas. He also made a video of the whole act.

Deputy Commissioner of Polic

Guwahati,  The Assam government has taken determined and ambitious decisions and plans to curb poaching of rhinos and protect all animals in the UNESCO world heritage site Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNP & TR), which also faces the brunt of the annual floods.

Assam Chief Minister Himan

Hyderabad,  A female giraffe has died at the Nehru Zoological Park (NZP) here after a brief illness, zoo officials said on Thursday.

Bubli, aged about 4 years and 3 months died on Wednesday.

As per preliminary post-mortem report, Bubli was suspected to be suffering with pneumonia and accor

Varanasi,  It has been a few days since the colour of the Ganga river in Varanasi turned green - and not exactly with envy.

The change in the colour of the water has become a major cause of concern for the local people - more so, because in the same period last year, during the first wave of the pandemic

Barcelona,  A Spanish court has handed out prison terms of between eight and 53 years to three men who aided the perpetrators of the 2017 Barcelona terror attacks that killed 16 people.

The court on Thursday sentenced Mohamed Houli Chemlal to 53 years and six months, while Driss Oukabir received a senten

New Delhi/Beijing,   In an unusual diplomatic move, China on Friday lashed out at the British blaming them for India's troubles in Kashmir.

In a series of tweets, the Chinese government spokesperson Zhao Lijian attacked the UK and its British imperialistic past, with respect to

Tokyo,  Japan's unemployment rate rose to 2.8 per cent in April from 2.6 per cent recorded in the previous month, the government said on Friday.

The number of unemployed people in April rose 10.6 per cent year-on-year to 2.09 million for the 15th straight month of rise, dpa news agency reported citin

Vienna,  Austria's winter tourism industry, a vital source of income for the alpine nation, recorded a near-total loss last season due to the coronavirus pandemic, official figures revealed on Friday.

Austria's Federal Statistics Office announced that overnight stays between November 2020 and Apr

Male,  The Maldives government has cut down its minimum lease rates on 16 uninhabited islands in order to attract bids for tourism development projects, part of a plan to raise revenue after being hit by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said on Friday.

The government last month called for bids from lo

Hanoi,  Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most populous city in Vietnam, on Friday ordered the closure of restaurants accepting dine-in customers and restricted a range of activities amid a new Covid-19 outbreak in the southern metropolis.

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