During the 1790s, British officers and other gentlemen associated with the East India Company in India were introduced to big-game hunting from the backs of elephants, riding in a basket-like platform ...

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It's official. Arjuna will carry the fabled golden howdah this edition and Balarama, the gentle giant who ambled majestically performing the daunting task will take a break for the job. He is not ...

Lead tusker Arjuna won't make it to Dasara in about a decade from now. Neither will the majestic Balarama be there. MYSORE: Lead tusker Arjuna won't make it to Dasara in about a decade from now.

Dangerous game is any animal that can shoot back, so to speak. Beasts that can kill you range in size from leopards, at 150 pounds, up through grizzlies at 600, to elephants at 12,000. Degree of ...

As elephant Abhimanyu headed back to Mathigodu camp from Mysuru on Sunday after the completion of his ceremonial role as the howdah-carrying jumbo during Dasara, memories of his predecessors who had ...

The daily rehearsal for elephants participating in Mysuru Dasara will intensify from Monday. Lead elephant Abhimanyu and other male elephants of the first batch have been carrying sand-laden sacks on ...