A giant gorilla statue that has suddenly appeared in a South Coast suburb has left locals baffled — with many asking where it came from, why it’s there, and whether council should be focusing on other ...

But in the capable hands of director Omar Elerian, and featuring an astonishing central performance from Kathryn Hunter, this multi-layered and “engrossing” tragi-comedy about the absurdities of war ...

Royal Bengal Tiger Shakti, aged 9.6 years, died at Byculla Zoo on November 17, 2025, due to pyogranulomatous pneumonia leading to respiratory failure. The tiger, brought from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar ...

Mumbai: Male Royal Bengal tiger Shakti at Byculla's Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo, who had been brought along with female Royal Bengal Tiger Karishma from the Chhatrapati ...

Shakti is survived by his mate Karishma, a female Royal Bengal Tiger who came along with him to the Mumbai zoo on February 12, 2020. The pair had two cubs—Jay and Rudra—on November 4, 2022. While ...

Residents of a Sundarbans village spotted pugmarks of a Bengal tiger early on Thursday and, after a search lasting more than two hours, saw the animal resting beside a creek before it went into a ...

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Rajiv Joseph’s tale of a captive animal that returns from the dead after the 2003 invasion is bracingly unconventional There is an exciting wildness to the European premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s surreal ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The tiger (Kathryn Hunter) sits at the front of the stage, exuding big cat boredom and effortless feline ...

A post-mortem conducted by experts from Mumbai Veterinary College revealed pyogranulomatous pneumonia as the preliminary cause of death. Further reports from the Wildlife Research and Training Centre ...

In the world’s largest mangrove forest, women whose husbands were killed by Bengal tigers are working to restore their habitat.

Mumbai, Nov 26: Shakti, a nine-and-a-half-year-old Royal Bengal tiger at the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan in Byculla, died suddenly last week. He had arrived at the Byculla Zoo in 2020 along with ...