HC’s guidelines on parading elephants in festivals faced resistance from temple trusts citing tradition. SC struck them down, ...

The HC's push to enforce guidelines sparked tension among temple festival committees and large fan clubs of captive elephants ...

A controversial elephant in the southern Indian state of Kerala is back in the news after a local temple bid a record amount for his participation in its annual festival. BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi ...

Elephants are used for religious processions in Kerala Elsewhere, chained and saddled elephants are used for rides, sometimes carting tourists up and down steep forts, or entertaining tourists who ...

which has around 380 captive elephants. Incidentally, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court consisting of Justices A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and P. Gopinath had recently held that parading ...

The Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the Kerala High Court's restrictions on elephant parades during festivals, ...

"I'm afraid the elephant that killed my father could come ... in the hilly Wayanad district of the southern Indian state of Kerala when she saw a vehicle carrying a bleeding man.

The CDB is organising the temple festival. New rules on captive elephants in Kerala have provision for euthanasia Though the elephants were paraded by maintaining a minimum distance of 3 metres ...