Reliance Industries and Reliance Foundation on Monday unveiled Vantara, an initiative for animal welfare in Gujarat. This project focuses on the rescue, treatment, and rehabilitation of injured and abused animals across India and abroad. What is Vantara? Vantara, which is a Hindi word, means ‘star of the forest’. This program is dedicated to the rescue, … Read more
Tara is one of 32 rescued elephants housed between India’s only elephant hospital, the Wildlife SOS Elephant Hospital Campus, and the nearby 20-acre Elephant Conservation and Care Centre, both on the outskirts of Mathura, a city three hours’ drive from India’s capital, New Delhi. Tara gets a manicure. Photo: Siddharth Khandelwal “Each of them has … Read more
The 300km journey from Francistown to Serowe, Botswana, is uneventful. The monotony of the terrain is broken once in a while. Livestock grazing at a distance is visible from here on the A1 national road. We encountered a roadblock before turning right at Palapye: a police officer waved the bus driver off soon after exchanging … Read more
The Cote d’Ivoire national football team, the Elephants, kicked off the 2023 AFCON tournament with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Equatorial Guinea. The two goals, one in each half, from Sekou Fofana and Jean-Philippe Krasso, ensured the hosts got off on the best possible footing. The 60,000-capacity Stade Alassane Ouattara was bedecked in orange as … Read more
