Bharat Rakshak

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The book argues that the lion and cheetah are imports into India and did not occur naturally. IOW, the Gir lion is not an Asiatic lion but an african one and the "distinctive features" are a result of a genetic bottleneck. This kind of reasoning makes me wonder - what's the point behind t...

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http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/need-to-extend-asiatic-lion-s-geographical-limits-m-k-ranjitsinh-113042000488_1.html The Supreme Court has allowed the translocation of the Asiatic lions from Gir in Gujarat to the Palpur Kuno sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. Avantika Bhuyan talks ...

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http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=795416 Details on the rejection of re-introducing cheetahs to India by the Supreme Court... The court, while quashing the MoEF's proposed Rs 300 crore project to introduce the African cheetah into India, said the ministry "has not conducted any deta...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Shift-Asiatic-lions-from-Gujarat-to-Madhya-Pradesh-SC-to-Centre/articleshow/19557278.cms Shift Asiatic lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh: SC to Centre Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Apr 15, 2013, 05.12 PM IST NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court...

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http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20130419300713201.htm Wildlife: A legal home for the buffalo BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Asiatic wild buffalo. The Asiatic wild buffalo (Bubalus arnee) was recently granted a legal home at Kolamarka in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district. A gazette notification from the S...

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http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=793392 Geckoella Jeyporensis or Jeypore ground gecko, an enigmatic lizard from the Eastern Ghats which was considered extinct, has been rediscovered after 135 years, according to naturalists at the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) here. This species...

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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/lost-found-vanishing-from-roots-again/1089911/ Thought extinct for a century, then spotted in Maharashtra in 1997, the forest owlet appears to be on the verge of extinction from the forest where it was rediscovered, say Pune-based bird-lovers who have counted the la...

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http://asiatic-lion.blogspot.com/2013/02/leopards-kill-12-in-junagadh-injure-48.html A dozen people were killed and 48 were injured in leopard attacks in Junagadh district in the last one year. Forest and environment minister Ganpat Vasava in a written reply to a query from Una MLA Punja Vansh said ...

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http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/spot-the-killer Spot the Killer How leopards are hunted as ‘maneaters’ with appalling ease in Uttarakhand Each time a leopard kills a human, Rawat is one of two men summoned to rid the region of the menace. He operates with a team of three, including a r...

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http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20130308300406100.htm Lions of the Gir - and the true heroes behind the conservation success... Charans, Bharwads, Rabaris, Ahirs and Mers are five communities of the Maldhari tribes and are considered to be the oldest inhabitants of Saurashtra. The majority of the res...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Stung-by-copter-scam-Antony-wants-defence-sector-to-go-desi/articleshow/18601606.cms Antony, at a seminar on Wednesday, gave enough indications of the new policies in the offing to reverse this trend, holding it was "essential" for India to speed up...

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http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?283984

Leopards in Bombay's Sanjay Gandhi National Park...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Salman-Khurshid-opposes-scrapping-of-VVIP-chopper-deal/articleshow/18565762.cms .... and slowly the sleaze and ignorance starts oozing out!! Government is split over the need to cancel the helicopter deal with AgustaWestland, with foreign minister Salman Khur...

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http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/blood-on-the-tracks Blood on the Tracks 11 elephants died on our railway tracks in two weeks. Is there a way to stop this? Last week, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways met to discuss how to stop elephant deaths on railway tracks. Between 3...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kiran-Bedi-backs-Lokpal-Bill-Anna-Hazare-accuses-govt-of-betrayal/articleshow/18289824.cms Social activist Anna Hazare on Friday announced that he would return to agitate at Ramlila Maidan if required, expressing his lack of confidence in the government in br...

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http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/india-decides-9/has-the-govt-diluted-the-lokpal/263635?hp Today, the Cabinet cleared the Lokpal Bill, but with some major changes. It will now be brought to Parliament in this session. The changes are, however, different from what had been recommended by the Standing...

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http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=787631 A landmark decision indeed... :D In a verdict that can change electoral equations in Haryana, former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Chautala were today awarded 10 years' jail term for corruption in a teachers' recruitment scam...

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http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/10-years-in-jail-for-haryana-leader-om-prakash-chautala-son-abhay-320541?pfrom=home-india Congratulations to the court for sentencing the crooks... but what's with this "Chest Pain syndrome" that all the high and mighty have!!! Why can't they be prov...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21118998 Bangladesh cleric sentenced to death for war crimes A court in Bangladesh has sentenced a well-known Muslim cleric to death for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war. Abul Kalam Azad's conviction is the first verdict handed d...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Security-helps-netas-take-bold-decisions/articleshow/18068638.cms Does one laugh or cry at such pearls of wisdom??? :roll: The Supreme Court could barely contain its exasperation and amusement when Delhi Police blandly submitted that security cover provided t...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4aTxF3xjWA

Al Jazeera World : Balochistan: Pakistan's other war...

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http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=786819

For those on BR avidly rooting for the "Black" Insas.. also, looks like new camo pattern ... check out picture in link.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Stop-helping-black-money-hoarders-Kejriwal-to-govt/articleshow/17895457.cms ... and here is the echo of the above case in India. AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, "The Swiss bank, which allowed 100 American citizens to hide $1.2bn for 10 years, force...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20907359 This is what can happen when a nation has determination to go after tax evaders... compare this to the circus in India and the Political ring masters conducting it. And to top it all - It's Preet Bharara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara) leading...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/automobiles/shedding-door-pulls-mumbai-taxis-rattle-off.html?hp&_r=0 The Premier Padmini - An Obituary... The Padmini has its roots in a 1952 license agreement that allowed Premier Automobiles of India to produce a version of the Italian Fiat 1100, or Millecento...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/world/asia/in-india-demonstrators-and-police-clash-at-protest-over-rape.html?ref=world&_r=0 But India’s criminal justice system, which is riddled with incompetence, corruption and political meddling, seems unable to respond effectively. Police officers often buy...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20661661 A new species of blind cat fish has been discovered by scientists working in south India. This, along with other new animals, were identified in an old deep well in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The new blind cat fish, which is blood red ...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twGFxc6XObs

The Real Jungle Book Bear - (Sloth Bear).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHfSTt1tcj0

The Last Maneater (Killer Tigers of India)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw7f_9Hu9n8

Danger in Tiger Paradise ... Valmik Thapar

... and once again - some of the same footage as the other two i posted above - with a different narrative (again around Machli). Wonder who shot the original footage!!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8W5_xSK62k The Tigers' Fortress - Narrated by Valmik Thapar I'm curious!! Check this documentary and the one i posted above - (Machli - Queen of Tigers) - Some of the footage is the same!! Different narrative built around the same footage by two different narrators!! ...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPlwMo4aac4

Machli - Queen of Tigers @Ranthambhore NP

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgR0b1ucG9A

The Last Lions of India - Full version. Enjoy!

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rajasthan-referendum-to-recall-corporator/articleshow/17433667.cms JAIPUR: For the first time in Rajasthan, an election for recalling an elected chairman of a municipal body will be held in Baran district on December 12 in accordance with the amendment to the...

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http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/arvind-kejriwal-says-aam-aadmi-party-will-challenge-existing-parties-296736?pfrom=home-lateststories Arvind Kejriwal's party that was launched nearly two months ago amid much hype finally has a name. Aam Aadmi Party, which means the party for the common man who Mr K...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/world/asia/arvind-kejriwal-stirs-the-pot-and-strikes-fear-in-india.html?ref=world “We hope that the people of this country will be able to do something in 2014,” Mr. Kejriwal said. That Mr. Kejriwal is now one of India’s most powerful figures represents a strikingly...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Anna-Hazare-A-Jan-Lokpal-by-2014/articleshow/17093983.cms Anna Hazare will launch a travel-movement across India from January 30, 2013, to create mass awareness among the people that will force the government to pass the Jan Lokpal bill by 2014. Announcing th...

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http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/foreign-companies-not-needed-to-revive-economy-anna-hazare-to-pm-288391?pfrom=home-topstories Criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for inviting foreign companies to the country to prop up the economy, social activist Anna Hazare today reminded him of Mahatma Ga...

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http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/a-conversation-with-lt-gen-baljit-singh-jaswal-former-commander-of-kashmir/?ref=world A Conversation With: Lt. Gen. Baljit Singh Jaswal, Former Commander of Kashmir By BETWA SHARMA After two decades of militancy, the Kashmir Valley has been relatively calm d...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Former-Army-chief-Gen-VK-Singh-calls-for-immediate-dissolution-of-Parliament/articleshow/17007254.cms MUMBAI: In a stinging attack on the government, former Army chief General VK Singh, who has joined Anna Hazare in his crusade against corruption, on Monday t...

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