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Finally, stricter rules for transporting livestock in India

The amended rules specify the size of partitions for different categories of livestock and poultry inside transport vehicles

Animal sacrifice at Nepal's Gadhimai temple banned

Sustained campaigning by animal rights activists leads the temple to scrap the 300-year-old practice

Supreme Court warns of criminal prosecution against those found torturing captive elephants

Despite rules to protect the animals from cruelty, many temples in Kerala continue to organise processions of these animals without taking into …

Supreme Court's stay on Jallikattu

Major General (Retd.) R M Kharb, chairman, Animal Welfare Board of India, talks about the Supreme Court's stay on Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu

Supreme Court puts Jallikattu on hold

The Centre had recently revoked a ban on the traditional bull-fighting sport

Apex court orders all states to ensure sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs

Order comes in response to petitions by animal welfare groups that local bodies were not doing enough on the matter

FIAPO urges TN political parties to not make Jallikattu an election issue

"The common man is compassionate and we urge leaders to not make this a political issue despite the fact that animal exploitation is a political …

Pune Court orders four rescued circus elephants to be sent back to where they came from

The foundation for the court decision rests on procedural flaws committed by the enforcement authorities during …

What to do about Liberia's island colony of abandoned lab chimps?

These chimpanzees were intentionally infected with hepatitis and other pathogens to help develop a range of vaccines

Cage the abusers

In battery cages, egg-laying hens are suffocated, debeaked and injected with antibiotics. Their only hope lies with the Delhi High Court, which …

Centre intends to notify rules for regulating livestock markets, taking care of seized animals

Every year, tens of thousands of cattle are routinely smuggled across the borders into Nepal for sacrifice

Tamil Nadu on boil as pro-Jallikattu protesters clash with police

Protesters in Chennai set Ice House police station on fire after they clashed with police in front of Parthasarathy Temple near Marina Beach

First, justify jallikattu?

If the tradition has to be kept alive in spirit, then its proponents must muster courage to walk the talk

Lock & hold

The jallikattu bull row in Tamil Nadu provokes the law v culture debate

The pain of truncated lives

The Supreme Court's much-awaited judgement on ownership rules for captive elephants could bring clarity on regulation

Lift ban on shahtoosh trade in Kashmir; provide livelihood options: panel to Centre

The panel has urged Centre to conserve and breed chiru goats as that will revive the shatoosh industry and also the chiru population

Food and dissent

Sunita Narain's response to the comments on her previous editorial "Why I would not advocate vegetarianism"

Humane Society International-India welcomes govt's acceptance of non-animal tests for pesticide safety

Much is still left to do to bring Indian regulations in line with international best practices