An elephant pitched to be the successor to carry the golden howdah during the next years’s Dussehra celebration in Mysuru, died on Wednesday from injuries sustained in a fight with another elephant in ...

The Forest Department is likely to rest howdah elephant Abhimanyu and desist from harnessing his services in any combing operations in future, following the shocking death of Arjuna last week in a ...

Debate around use of captive elephants stirred once again ahead of festival A recent encounter between two Dasara elephants, Kanjan (weighing 4,515 kg) and Dhananjay (5,155 kg), has rekindled debate ...

As elephant Abhimanyu headed back to Mathigodu camp from Mysuru on Sunday after the completion of his ceremonial role as the howdah-carrying jumbo during Dasara, memories of his predecessors who had ...

File pic of Balarama carrying 750kg golden howdah during a Dasara Jumbo Savari procession in Mysuru. Photo by special arrangment. Dasara Elephant photos by Srikumar M Menon Dasara Elephant photos by ...

37-year-old Gopalaswamy, that was being groomed as a Dasara Howdah elephant, has succumbed to severe injuries sustained in an attack by the wild elephant in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve. Caretakers of ...

Mysuru: With Dasara tusker Abhimanyu set to retire in two years, the Karnataka forest department is entrusted with the formidable task of preparing a new elephant to carry the resplendent golden ...

HASSAN/BENGALURU: One of the most popular and preferred tuskers of the Karnataka Forest Department, also called the royal tusker or the howdah elephant - Arjuna -- died on the spot on Monday morning ...