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Territorial fights among elephants are common, it is for the first time when a casualty was reported in Betla. DALTONGANJ: Two wild tuskers killed Kaal Bhairav, a captive elephant at Betla National Park in Palamu Tiger Reserve on Monday night, said deputy director of PTR’s north division Kumar Ashish on Tuesday. Kaal Bhairav was 25-year-old and was brought to the park from Karnataka in 2018. Ashish said, “Betla has five captive elephants, including three females. Kaal Bhairav was the eldest of all.” Betla has more than four dozen wild elephants. Sources said although territorial fight...

The wildlife issues related to a proposal for laying a third railway track through a part of Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR) is unlikely to be resolved at a meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi on Wednesday.  The matter is listed for discussion at the meeting of the project monitoring group of the department of promotion of industries and internal trade under the Union ministry of commerce and industry that day.  The railway took up construction of a 291-long third railway line between Patratu and Sonnagar 12km of which is to pass through PTR but the Jharkhand government objected to the co...