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The sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs are not just animal welfare measures – they are the centrepiece of India’s legally mandated strategy to manage the street dog population and prevent rabies. The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2023, framed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, require…

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

On Monday, our overworked justice system, which still hasn’t been able to give a verdict on Umar Khalid’s case or hear the case suo motu, found time and inclination to address a far larger problem — the stray dog menace in the capital. You read that right. It appears rapes,…

When stray animals make headlines in India, the narrative often follows a certain script: dog lovers versus those who see them as a menace. 

The Supreme Court has granted protection from arrest to the Wire’s founding editor Siddarth Varadarajan in an FIR lodged against him under section 152 of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita in Assam, LiveLaw reported.

Freelance journalists Parth M N and Jeff Joseph Paul have won the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in political and environment journalism, respectively.

Today, hundreds of MPs from the INDIA bloc – including Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, and TMC leader Mahua Moitra – had called for a protest march from Parliament to the Election Commission against alleged vote theft.

The Union Ministry of Forests, Environment and Climate Change has evaded a parliamentary question on the number of animals kept at the Reliance Foundation sponsored Vantara facility in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district.

A week after flash floods devastated Dharali in Uttarkashi’s Harsil valley, the destruction is still everywhere you look. Villages remain cut off, roads have vanished, and bridges lie twisted in the river.