8 Asiatic lions in Hyderabad zoo test Covid positive

In perhaps the first such reported incident, eight Asiatic lions in the zoo in Hyderabad have tested positive for COVID-19 after their saliva samples were thoroughly examined by CSIR-Centre for......

Zoos across India on 'highest' alert after tiger in US gets COVID-19

The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) on Monday put all zoos across the country on 'highest' alert and asked them to collect samples fortnightly in suspected cases after a tiger at a United States zoo......

Baby among 12 killed in New York's deadliest fire in decades

A massive fire swept through a five-storey apartment building in New York, killing at least 12 people including a toddler and injuring four others in the deadliest blaze to hit the city in decades.......

Whither the warmth?

Last year, during a conversation about her film The Namesake at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Mira Nair told me that she found Christmas cold and very alienating. "We had so......