Animal cruelty

The New Indian impact: Tree-planter CM Shivraj orders probe on dog attacker amid video outrage

NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj singh Chauhan on Sunday announced the arrest of a man, involved in a cruel attack on a pup, after The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua had shared a video showing barbarism and animal cruelty while tagging him and Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on the social media. Dear […]

G20 in India: Animal cruelty at Delhi airports caught on cam; pet groups blame MCD

NEW DELHI:  A slew of incidents involving cruelty to stray dogs, who were dragged by their neck with wires in Delhi at Airport Terminal 2 this week by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in the wake of G20 preparations, have triggered protests by animal welfare groups in India. Several organizations including Maneka Gandhi’s People for […]

Dog A Man’s Best Friend? Not For This Rajasthan Doc

The ugly side of human cruelty against animals was once again laid bare as a video of a Jodhpur man tying a street dog to his car and dragging it for five kilometres went viral. The man was later identified as Dr Rajneesh Galwa, a plastic surgeon at Jodhpur’s Mahatma Gandhi Hospital. It was alleged […]

Shameless, Abominable: Maneka Gandhi’s PFA Sends Legal Notice To U’Khand Govt On Equine Deaths

DEHRADUN: After the deaths of over 60 equines in Char Dham trek routes, especially in Kedarnath, former union minister Maneka Gandhi’s ‘People For Animals’ (PFA) has sent a legal notice to state government officials including the chief secretary and director general of police of Uttarakhand. “Keeping in mind your esteemed positions in the state machinery, […]