Prayagraj: This Dussehera, the Pajawa Ramlila committee will be using a giant 8-ft tall white elephant statue- Airavat-mounted on a special vehicle, during the Ram Baarat procession to be taken ...

Five had been operated upon for cataract, something that had never been done in India despite a huge elephant population. “Airavat would like to do such surgeries and more for our elephants,” he said.

The elephant occupies a pride of place in Indic tradition. Rising from the ocean during the samudra manthan as Airavat, the elephant becomes associated with Indra and assumes celestial importance ...

The forest department in Bankura has hired a dozen cars with forester escorts, to safely ferry Madhyamik examinees from elephant-prone villages in Jungle ... Vehicles with examinees will be escorted ...

Bull and elephant hold immense religious significance in Hinduism. While elephant or the Airavat is revered as the vehicle of Indra, the Hindu god of Heaven, bull or nandi is worshiped as the ...

the forest department has escorted the Madhyamik examinees with their Airavat vehicle safely to the centres. Kanksha block in West Burdwan district is an elephant corridor. Not only elephants ...

Two years back, the Forest Department had conceived the “Airavat Bus Yojana” in view of rising incidents of human casualties due to elephant attacks. Under the scheme, forest staffs and an ...

Constructed at a shipyard in Kolkata, the INS Airavat can operate at sea for 45 days and is named after the fabled albino, four-tusked elephant of Hindu mythology which was known as the mount for the ...

Painter Dhruvi Acharya Instagrammed a white elephant with painted red flowers, designer Anushka Khanna went millennial pink, and fashion maven Tarun Tahiliani posed with a regal black Airavat ...