G Ramalingam

A butterfly park, the first of its kind in the state, will soon be an additional attraction at Indira Gandhi Zoological gardens in Vizag.

An 18-year-old leopard named Sravanthi died at the Warangal Zoological Park in the wee hours of Saturday.

Who said only humans need air conditioners (ACs) to beat the heat in scorching summer?

The authorities of Indira Gandhi Zoo Park (IGZP) plan to shift the rhinocerous Nakul, who had scampered away to the sambars’ enclosure on April 12 after it was brought from Kanpur zoo, to its original enclosure and open the enclosure for visitors by the end of this month.

The Indira Gandhi Zoological Park finally received two giraffes from the Malaysia's Negara Zoo as its newest inmates here on Friday.

Parents of students awaiting the Samacheer Kalvi textbooks are wor ried that a further delay in distribution of books will lead to loss of more school days.

At the entrance to the Everwin Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Kolathur, students and their parents are greeted by a large 5ft X 10 ft board. It explains in detail the fee recommended by the Justice Raviraja Pandian fee committee. It also details how much the school spends per child every year. The school is an exception.

A face-off between a city school and parents took an ugly turn on Wednesday when the institution remained closed after the Muharram holiday.

With the summer being exceptionally cruel this year, animals at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park are beating the heat by gorging on a diet comprising seasonal fruits, oral rehydration and long dips in water ponds.

City police busted two gangs trying to circulate demonetised 'lira' notes (Turkish currency) in Hyderabad on Monday and arrested 17 persons.

Participants at a workshop on water conservation on Wednesday called for utilising technology to the hilt to address water shortages.

The temperatures in the city in the past few days showed a marked increase over the figures recorded for the month in the past three decades.

Not often do you find school students on excursions to another state collecting garbage and plastic littered in public places and even volunteering to clean up cages of carnivores at the city zoo.

A day after the newest addition to the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) – the One-horned Asian Rhinoceros Nakul – made it amply clear that it did not like being pushed around or confined, the zoo authorities on Friday decided to let the 11-year-old rhino continue with its stay in the sambar enclosure for the next 10 days.

The zoological park also witnessed a 10% increase in revenue collection at the end of the 2012-13 fiscal, taking it to Rs 1.35 crore to make it the highest ever collection.

TNSTC Employee unions of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) are divided over the DMK-backed Labour Progressive Federation's (LPF) plan to stage a strike against the state government for not fulfilling their various demands including wage revision.

The vast 625-acre zoo witnesses a daily footfall of a minimum of 3,000-4,000 visitors, which goes up to around 5,000 on weekends and holidays.

The Indira Gandhi Zoo Park (IGZP) is facing a peculiar problem -a skewed sex ratio.

A month after Cyclone Hudhud left it in shambles, the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) finally reopened its doors for the general public on Tuesday, albeit sans some of its star attractions like the white tiger, tiger and the butterfly park, which was completely destroyed by the cyclone. Also only part of the zoo's birds and fish collection were displayed on Tuesday.

A cobra slithered into National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) assistant general manager M Prasanna Kumar's house at NTPC Township in the city recently, sending the entire household in a tizzy for nearly five hours.

Nearly three months after he arrived in the Port City, the feisty 11-year-old one-horned Asian rhinoceros Nakul is now being conditioned by the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park authorities before they make an attempt to move it into its original enclosure.

The Indira Gandhi Zoo Park's (IGZP) fledgling aquarium - Meena Lokam - is all set for a makeover, with plans to expand it by March this year with several new features like enhanced floor area, underground fish tank with glass cover and newer variety of fish and information kiosks.

The long-awaited giraffes for the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park will finally sail into the Port City in the first week of July, said minister of environment and forests Satrucherla Vijayarama Raju.

The recent furore over hundreds of male calves donated to the Simhachalam temple that were left uncared for and dying at the temple goshala has not woken up temple authorities in the region to the issue of animal cruelty, or so it seems.

The Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) in the city is set to get a makeover as the zoo’s new master layout plan (MLP) has finally been given the green signal by the Central Zoo Authority (CZA).

Members of the Vizag Bird Watchers Club (VBWC) were in for a rude shock, when on their Sunday saunter at Chepaluppada earlier this week they saw a guy fire at an egret nestled in the bushes in the stream with an air rifle.

The sprawling 625 acre Indira Gandhi Zoolo gical Park (IGZP), which used to be one of the most green and beautiful haunts in the city till Saturday, has virtually turned into a graveyard, thanks to cyclone Hudhud.