Hathi Gaon (the village of elephants), near Jaipur, has 102 of them. It is from here the giant animal is sent to various tourist places for joy rides. One of these resident-elephants, Elephant Number 44, if you care, has been badly sick with serious infections in the foot. And it continues to carry tourists for joy rides.


A billboard campaign against elephant rides in Jaipur


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A series titled "Women Fighter Pilots" exploring the lives of India's female combat aircraft pilots will soon beam on Indian television.


Series on women fighter pilots on TV soon


IIT-PAL lectures will now be available on the 'Swayam' platform and can be accessed on mobile phones anytime, the Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday.


IIT-PAL lectures to be available on mobile: Javadekar


A leader of fishermen, who have won widespread praise by rescuing hundreds caught up in the Kerala floods, on Monday refused to accept Rs 3,000 offered to each member of the community by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.


Fishermen refuse Rs 3,000 for saving lives


A group of 89 South Koreans left for Pyongyang on Monday to meet their families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, the first such initiative since October 2015.


S.Koreans head to Pyongyang for family reunions


Peruvian actor Richard Torres has "married" a tree in the Dominican Republic capital to draw attention to the indiscriminate felling of forests.


To denounce deforestation, Peruvian actor marries tree


A group of South Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War from relatives living in the North left on Monday for Mount Kumgang for rare reunions with their long-lost relatives.


Reunion of Korean families torn apart by North-South war


A total of 4,225 marooned people have been rescued so far in Karnataka's flood-hit Kodagu district even as incessant rains continued to hamper relief work, said an official on Sunday.


4,225 people rescued in flood-hit Kodagu amid rains


A 90-member team of the Adventure Tour Operators Association of India on Sunday began rescue operations in the flood-ravaged Kerala using 17 wide-body rafts brought in from Rishikesh, its team leader said.


Kerala floods: Adventure Tour operators join rescue operations


Even as Kerala battles the worst flooding in 96 years, a young couple taking shelter in a relief camp in Malappuram district got married on Sunday - cheered by others also sheltering with them.


Amid grief, a wedding in Kerala relief camp


Organs of a 15-year-old girl from West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, who was declared brain dead at a city hospital, were donated to three critically ill patients on Saturday, the hospital authority said.


Organs of brain dead teenager from Bengal save three lives


The Electronics and Mechanical Engineers Corps of Indian Army is on a cross-country cycling expedition, during which it will pass through all the states in a span of 120 days, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday.


Indian Army engineers undertake cross-country cycling expedition


Evergreen Bengali hero Prosenjit Chatterjee will play the   title role in an upcoming film on the curious case of "Gumnami Baba", a man many assumed to be the legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.


Legend of 'Gumnami Baba' to come alive on silver screen


A woman gangster involved in 113 crime cases and counted among top five dreaded women criminals in Delhi was arrested early on Saturday, police said.


Wanted woman involved in 113 crimes held in Delhi


As Kerala battles the worst floods in its recent history, many NGOs have come forward to lend their support to ensuring supply of packaged meals and other relief items to the worst affected areas of the state.


Kerala flood: NGOs step in to help victims


A frequent visitor to this picturesque resort before illness gripped him, late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is believed here to be the only national leader who thought of ending the five months of exile every year of the residents of the landlocked Lahaul Valley by constructing a tunnel through the Rohtang Pass.


Vajpayee cemented Rohtang 'tunnel of friendship': Residents


Engaged in rescue and relief operations in flood-hit Kerala, the Indian Army has been able to rescue 3,627 persons till date, including 22 foreign nationals, the Ministry of Defence said on Friday.


Rescued over 3,600 persons in flood-hit Kerala: Defence Ministry


In a novel effort to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among the Indian population, Microsoft India and Apollo Hospitals on Friday launched the first-ever Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered heart disease risk score API (application programme interface).


Novel Microsoft-Apollo AI model to predict heart disease risk for Indians


More than one-third of Chinese do not have their breakfast every day due to limited time in the morning, according to a survey.


Over one-third Chinese don't have breakfast every day


Hope and despair mingled as a large crowd of journalists, BJP supporters and commoners waited throughout a hot and humid Thursday to hear about Atal Bihari Vajpayee's health till a brief hospital statement ended it all.


At AIIMS, waiting to hear about Vajpayee...


Much as he was revered as a stalwart politician, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed away at the age of 93 here on Thursday, was widely recognised as a key poet in Hindi, who took poetry beyond the pages of his collections and recited them at numerous public fora. He used poetry as a medium to give expression to his deepest thoughts.

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