two and a half-year-old leopard was rescued after 40 hours of being stuck in a dry well in a village outside Jaipur. The leopard fell into an old abandoned well of a fort called Madhogarh on Monday night.All of Tuesday morning forest officials tried to rescue the animal by lowering a net and using meat as a bait to get him into the net so he could be pulled out but it all the efforts went in vain.Finally...
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After Ranthambore and Sariska,Darrah. Rajasthan is all set to get its third tiger reserve, and India its 39th,very soon. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has given itsin-principle approval to the project at Darrah National Park, which is about 50km from Kota.State forest department officials said it was verylikely that the first tiger would be relocated to the forests of Darrah by2011.“The...
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the edge of the Sariska Tiger Reserve, 14 children cram chemical formulae under a tree in the compound of a village school. Seven of them are girls.Around 40 km from district headquarters Alwar, the community-based experiment to educate poor girl children in this remote village of the Thana Gazi block in Rajasthan is unique in many ways."The school, Bodhshala or the Samudayik Bodh Uccha Prathamik Vidyalaya,...
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leopard which fell in a well in Madhogarh village about 35 km from here, was saved last evening after a 60-hour rescue operation.According to forest department sources, the big cat fell in the 90-foot deep dry well in the village fort, near Bassi town in the district on Monday morning.After hearing roars of the animal, the villagers informed the police and forest officials, who undertook the rescue...
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