Upholding a 35-year-old man’s conviction for assaulting his wife, the Bombay High Court has said the wife’s refusal to make tea for husband could not be accepted as provocation for him to assault her, and observed that wife is “not a chattel or an object”. In an order passed earlier this month, Justice Revati Mohite […]

The death of six elephants in the Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary in Kalahandi earlier in January-February was due to haemorrhagic septicemia caused by bacteria Pastuerella multoceda, according to a preliminary report by a central team set up by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. The elephants are likely to have contracted the bacteria from […]