Your Daily Wrap: Cheetahs return to India after 70 years; Amit Shah vs KCR in Hyderabad; and more | India News,The Indian Express
From the arrival of eight big cats in India to a Delhi court granting the ACB four days’ police custody of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, here are the top stories of the day.
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HomeIndiaYour Daily Wrap: Cheetahs return to India after 70 years; Amit Shah vs KCR in Hyderabad; and more
Your Daily Wrap: Cheetahs return to India after 70 years; Amit Shah vs KCR in Hyderabad; and more
From the arrival of eight big cats in India to a Delhi court granting the ACB four days’ police custody of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, here are the top stories of the day.
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New Delhi | September 17, 2022 8:16:53 pm
(Clockwise) PM Narendra Modi at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, Amit Shah, Amanatullah Khan, and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.Over 70 years after they went extinct in India, cheetahs are back. Eight big cats — five females and three males — from Namibia landed in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior today morning from where they were moved to their new home — the Kuno National Park. On his birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the felines into the quarantine enclosure. In his address to the nation soon after, the Prime Minister thanked Namibia for its help and efforts in restoring the carnivore to India, and called it an “important and historic” moment.
With the cheetahs being relocated from Namibia to India, there is hope that the translocation project for reviving India’s long-extinct cheetah population may achieve success. Even before this translocation, attempts were made to bring back Asiatic cheetahs here, but this was rejected by Iran. One reason was the dwindling population of its own cheetahs. But why does the animal face severe threats of extinction globally? Read here.
As wishes poured in for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday today, members of the Opposition wielded sarcasm in full measure while wishing him and maintained that “ideological and political battles will continue”. A look at who said what.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao took a dig at each other as the two led separate functions in Hyderabad city to mark 75 years of annexation of Hyderabad to the Indian Union. Shah, after unfurling the national flag at the Parade Grounds to mark the ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’, Shah said had it not been for independent India’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel it would have taken many more years to free the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad from the Nizam rule. Meanwhile, the Telangana CM, at another event to mark ‘Telangana National Integration Day’, has called upon the people to be wary of “the conspiracy to distort history”.
A Delhi court has granted the anti-corruption branch (ACB) four days’ police custody of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, who was arrested last evening, in connection with a two-year-old case related to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Waqf Board. This comes after the agency’s disclosure in court that Khan received Rs 4 crore in ill-gotten money.
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