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Project to make peace with jumbos

Villagers along the Nagaon-Karbi Anglong foothills chose to make peace, not war, with the wild elephant herds that stray in to their areas in search of food.
Chasing wild elephants with sticks, daos and fire had become part of life in these villages.
On Sunday, residents of at least 50 villages took up the initiative to restore food and water sources for these elephants, to check attacks on their villages.

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Narendra Modi went paragliding in Himachal, and this is that story

We can now confirm, beyond all doubt, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a thing for flying. “It was a wet day and though the rains had taken a break, many tourists were skeptical and backed out,” Roshan Thakur says, recalling that day from 1997, when he was running tandem paragliding flights from the slopes of Solang, Himachal Pradesh.

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