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Elderly to accompany cattle in Delhi govt's 'PG hostels': Gopal Rai
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 10 (ANI): In a big step towards animal welfare, Delhi Development Minister Gopal Rai announced that the government would open PG hostels for cows and build a gaushala-cum-old age home where elderly would live in their company.
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Animal Welfare Board seeks report on Sidhu's stuffed black partridge gift
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh [India] Dec 18 (ANI): Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has asked Chandigarh's environment department to file a report within three days on a complaint against Navjot Singh Sidhu for gifting Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh a stuffed black partridge.
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NGOs protest against Maha's shoot-at-sight order for tigress
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Sept 22 (ANI): A group of animal welfare organisations protested against Maharashtra Forest Department's recent shoot-at-sight orders for a man-eater tigress in Pandharkawda forest.
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Animal Kingdom is legal entity, observes Uttarakhand HC
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nainital (Uttarakhand) [India], July 5 (ANI): The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday declared the "entire animal kingdom including avian and aquatic" as legal entities, with a distinct persona and corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person.
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Protest against animal cruelty planned in Hong Kong
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Apr. 09 (ANI): Following a string of animal cruelty cases, a Hong Kong-based animal welfare group, AnimalSaver HK, is planning a sit-in protest, calling on people to join the vigil in a public park in Hong Kong's Central District.
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Immense need of pet education at school level, stresses Jacqueline Fernand
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): Actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who has joined hands with The Body Shop, as its face, for the first ever campaign of its kind for a global ban on cosmetics animal testing, feels there is need of pet education and animal welfare to be taught at the school level
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Jallikattu row: AWBI files affidavit in SC
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 31 (ANI): The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking that the Tamil Nadu Government's law on bull-taming sport Jallikattu be made invalid.
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SC to hear Animal Welfare Board's plea against Jallikattu ordinance t
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi, Jan.31 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear several pleas regarding controversial bull-taming sport Jallikattu, including the crucial one by the Animal Welfare board of India(AWBI) seeking the State Government law to be made invalid on the sport.
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Jallikattu row: SC likely to hear Animal Welfare Board's plea on Janu
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court is expected to hear the petitions filed by Animal Welfare Board of India and other bodies challenging Jallikattu order on January 30.
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Contestations against Jallikattu undermines its cultural importance: TN BJ
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Jan. 9 (ANI): Stating that any more contestations against the call for ban on Jallikattu will not be tolerated, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the Animal Welfare Board of India of working at the behest of "petro-dollar mafias" and working
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UN supports better welfare for farm animals worldwide
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.18 (ANI-Newsvoir): For the first time ever in the history of the United Nations (UN), farm animals worldwide will be better protected following the adoption of groundbreaking global policy recommendations on animal welfare in farming at the UN Committee on World Food S
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Case registered against unknown people for burning puppies alive in Hydera
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad, July 20 (ANI): A case has been registered against unknown persons in Musheerabad Police Station by an animal welfare organisation called the People for Animals on charges of burning the puppies alive.
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