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Swapnil Soni has followed a fixed routine for the past 17 years. He wakes up at 4 a.m. every day. His wife prepares around 1,000 chapatis with the help of two neighborhood women. She also cooks rice and mixes it with buttermilk (chaas). Swapnil then carries all this food to the outskirts of Narol in…
Punch, the seven-month-old Japanese macaque, might be small, but his story carries emotional weight. Abandoned at birth, he was cared for by zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo. Experts say macaques are social animals, and the early abandonment could have been dangerous, yet Punch thrived under human care.Google joins in! “Punch the Monkey” in the search…
When Punch, a seven-month old baby Japanese macaque, was rejected by his own mother, the whole world came together and cried for him. When Punch was bullied by his own species, again the Internet went sad and many good samaritans expressed their willingness to adopt him. And when in a quiet corner of Ichikawa City…
An abandoned baby monkey named Punch found solace in an IKEA orangutan plush, becoming an internet sensation. The toy, nicknamed ‘Oran-Mama,’ offered comfort as Punch navigated maternal rejection. This heartwarming bond led to a global demand for the plush, with IKEA even donating more to the zoo, highlighting the universal need for comfort. Sometimes the…
JAMMU: Amid outrage over the monkey menace destroying crops, Jammu and Kashmir govt on Tuesday informed the assembly it is not planning to launch a sterilisation drive to curb the simian population, even as it conceded that the threat remains a major headache across Jammu region.The govt, however, said a range of steps are being…
Suryakumar Yadav (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin believes captain Suryakumar Yadav’s 22-ball 32 in the opening T20I against New Zealand helped take the “monkey off his back” after a prolonged lean patch. Ashwin pointed out that Suryakumar had been under scrutiny due to his form, having averaged just over 13 across…
PUNE: A first-of-its-kind genetic study of a newer and more stubborn Mpox variant detected in Kerala has linked those cases to international travel and reported signs of continued human-to-human transmission. The study of Mpox Clade Ib, which has been driving outbreaks in parts of Africa and has since showed up in several countries outside the…
The monkey cap is one of those winter items that almost everyone recognises but very few people question. It appears quietly every year when the temperature drops, pulled out of cupboards, trunks, and old plastic bags that smell faintly of mothballs. It is not fashionable in the modern sense, yet it refuses to disappear. From…
HYDERABAD: A newly elected sarpanch from Nirmal district has literally taken the task of driving away monkeys into his own hands, after he was seen ‘monkeying around’ in a bear costume to tackle the menace in his village.Unusual approachIn a video that went viral on social media, Kummari Ranjith of Lingapur village in Kadam mandal…
At the US Chess Championship, the chief arbiter held an umbrella to shield Wesley So from the sun. In comparison, the nationals in India were marred by organisational chaos. NEW DELHI: “Honestly, it made me feel like I was the president of a small country,” quipped 22-year-old American Grandmaster (GM) Hans Niemann after his opening-round…
