THANE: A six-year-old girl bitten by a community dog in Diva last month died of rabies on Sunday at Mumbai’s Kasturba Hospital, despite completing a month-long post-bite treatment at the KDMC-run Shastrinagar Hospital. Her parents said Nisha was playing outside her home on the night of Nov 17 when a dog attacked her, biting her on the shoulder and cheeks. She was taken to a local doctor and later...
MUMBAI: In compliance with a November 7 Supreme Court directive mandating the removal of stray dogs from the premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus depots and railway stations, BMC has initiated an AI-based pilot project to survey and geotag stray dogs across critical public locations in the city.The civic body has partnered with a start-up, Indicare AI, which has been...
Nagpur: There are almost 12 lakh (11.88 lakh) stray dogs in Maharashtra's urban areas, with 90,757 in Mumbai alone. This information was shared in a written reply by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde in the legislative assembly on Tuesday. He was quoting a report published by the Union ministry of health and environmental welfare on the deaths due to rabies from dog bites in Maharashtra.Attacks by...
MUMBAI: Animal welfare activists from Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and other areas in Maharashtra have urged various bodies such as Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), and local and civic authorities of the temple town of Shirdi, Ahmednagar district, to ensure that the local stray dogs are not harmed or illegally relocated ahead of prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to Shirdi on October 26.Activists said...
CHENNAI: In yet another stray cattle-induced death on city roads, a 33-year-old food delivery agent was run over by a truck, when he swerved his vehicle suddenly to avoid hitting astray cow that was crossing the road near Tambaram on Thursday night.Maniyarasu, 33, of Panapakkam was returning home after the day’s work when the accident took place. He was riding back home on the...
In a bid to contain the cattle menace, the Greater Chennai Corporation has increased the fine to be levied on cattle owners from 2,000 to 5,000 per head if they let the animals roam the streets. This comes in the wake of an increase in stray cattle attacks, including on a nine-year-old girl in Arumbakkam recently. In Triplicane too, six people were attacked by cattle. The corporation has increased the...
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