Tamil Nadu bans 23 ‘dangerous’ dog breeds

Posted on by Vividh Bharthi

Chennai: Following a distressing incident where a Rottweiler dog attacked a five-year-old girl in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu Animal Husbandry Department has taken decisive action by banning the import, breeding, or sale of 23 breeds of dogs deemed “dangerous” for people.

As per the department’s statement, the prohibited breeds include Tosa Inu, Fila Brasileiro, American Bulldog, Caucasian Shepherd, Kangal Shepherd Dog, Terriers, Mastiffs, Tornjak, Cane Corso, Wolf Dogs, Akbash, Pitbull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Dogo Argentino, Boerboel, Central Asian Shepherd Dog, South Russian Shepherd Dog, Japanese Tosa, Akita, Rottweiler, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Canaria, Moscow Guard, and Bandog.

The directive mandates immediate sterilization surgery for dogs on the list to prevent further reproduction.

Furthermore, the Union Animal Husbandry Department has previously advocated for bans on several dog breeds, including Rottweilers, Pitbulls, and American Bulldogs, citing their potential danger. It has instructed state governments and Union Territories to refrain from issuing licenses for the sale, breeding, and ownership of such dogs, prioritizing public safety.

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Jungle fowl on CM Sukhu’s menu: Himachal Pradesh BJP seeks FIR

Dharamsala, Dec 19 (IANS) The main Opposition BJP in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday demanded registration of a first information report (FIR) against those who killed a wildlife-protected bird species and served it at a dinner hosted for Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.

Leader of Opposition and former Chief Minister Jairam Thakur led lawmakers of the party and staged a protest over the killing of the bird, the red jungle fowl or “jungli murga”, in nature before the onset of the Assembly session in Dharamsala, the state’s winter capital.

The species is a protected bird under the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022. It is a highly endangered species and is being replaced by genetically-mixed jungle fowl.

Carrying placards depicting the photo of the birds, the legislators raised slogans against the government and demanded a probe into the killing of the bird to serve the Chief Minister, his Cabinet colleague Dhani Ram Shandil, officials and party workers.

“Rather than registering a case against those who killed the bird in the wild and who served it at the dinner of the Chief Minister, the government on Wednesday registered the case against the media for reporting the case. It’s a strange paradox,” Thakur told the media.

The FIR, on the complaint of village pardhan (head) Suman Chauhan in whose house the dinner was served to the visiting Chief Minister, also named Congress turncoat and BJP legislator Sudhir Sharma.

Former Chief Minister Thakur told IANS that they would also raise the issue of illegal killing of the red jungle fowl in the House.

He said: “If the Chief Minister is saying he didn’t relish the red jungle fowl as he’s a vegetarian, the question is how a wildlife-protected species was killed and its delicacy was mentioned in the official menu of the Chief Minister.”

“This clearly indicates that the Chief Minister was aware that jungle fowl was officially part of his dinner menu,” the BJP leader said.

This was the second gastronomic trouble for the Chief Minister after “disappearing” samosas.

In a video of the dinner in circulation, the Chief Minister was allegedly heard asking others, including ministers and officials, to try the recipe of the “jungli murga”, if they eat non-vegetarian food.

The Chief Minister himself denied that he ate the red jungle fowl. “I didn’t eat it, though they were offering it to me,” he said.

The Chief Minister was served the dinner at Tikkar, an interior village in Chopal in Shimla district, where he spent the night after attending a public grievance redressal function on December 13.

However, in the video, the Chief Minister was heard saying “he does not eat it”.

He asked villagers to serve it to his ministerial colleague Shandil, seated next to him and others. They all were sitting on the floor and eating in a group.

–IANS

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Ex-PM Vajpayee’s dream of interlinking rives will come true now: MP CM

Bhopal, Dec 16 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Monday that the dream of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for linking rivers under the tripartite contract for the ambitious Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal link project will become reality soon.

This contract will be signed in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jaipur on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister said the much-awaited development, which has been pending for the last more than 20 years due to various reasons, will take concrete shape.

“The consensus on this project could not be made mainly because both states were ruled by different parties. Multiple meetings were held between the officials from both states (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan).

Under the instructions from PM Modi all issues have been resolved now,” CM Yadav added.

He also said that the project will benefit 3,217 villages of Guna, Morena, Shivpuri, Bhind, Sheopur, Ujjain, Sehore, Mandsaur, Indore, Dhar, Agar Malwa, Shajapur and Rajgarh districts of the state.

“Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal link project will prove to be a boon for the farmers and citizens of both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. This will provide abundant water for irrigation to farmers and new doors of development will open,” he added.

The Chief Minister asserted that the project will bring prosperity to both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Farmers will be able to double their yield with the water obtained from the project, which will make the state prosperous along with their families, CM Yadav said.

He added that the project will cost around Rs 72,000, of which, Madhya Pradesh will spend Rs 35,000 crore, while Rajasthan will spend Rs 37,000 crore and the rest of the amount will be allocated by the Centre.

The total water-filling capacity of the project will be 1908.83 cubic metres.

As much as 172 million cubic metres of water will be reserved for drinking and industries.

As many as 21 dams will be constructed under the project.

After Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal, PM Modi is also scheduled to lay the foundation stone of another river interlining project (Ken-Betwa) between Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh during his visit to Sagar on December 25.

The project will provide water for irrigation for more than 8.1 lakh hectares in Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region and another 2.5 lakh hectares in Uttar Pradesh.

The Chief Minister last week said that after these two projects started, several big rivers within the state will also be interconnected.

He said that PM Modi had instructed him to prepare a plan for this purpose.

–IANS

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