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    • Indian-born cheetah gives birth to 5 cubs at Kuno National Park in a first for the reintroduction effort

      A rare moment at Kuno National Park has marked an important step in India’s cheetah revival, with officials confirming a significant new milestone in the project.

    • Rare wild cat, the caracal, spotted in Madhya Pradesh after 20 years

      The elusive cat was recorded at Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary. It was captured on a camera trap in Mandsaur’s fenced Cheetah Closed Natural Area.

    • Foxconn's Karnataka facility set to become second-largest after China plant, says CEO Young Liu

      Under Project Elephant, Foxconn is setting up an iPhone assembly plant in Karnataka. The company has acquired 300 acres of land in the ITIR industrial area, located in Doddaballapur and Devanahalli Taluk of Bengaluru Rural district. The project, with an investment size of Rs 22,000 crore, is expected to generate employment for more than 50,000 people.

    • One year of Project Cheetah: Comparisons with Project Tiger flawed and unhelpful

      An influx of eight more Namibian cheetahs into Kuno National Park is expected this month, as part of the multi-year project to relocate the cheetah in India after 70 years.

    • Breeding, cheetah selection strategies at focus in Project Cheetah's 2nd year: Project head

      Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Project Cheetah in India last year by releasing a group of big cats brought from Namibia into an enclosure at Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park on September 17.

    • Cheetah deaths at Kuno National Park troubling but not unduly alarming: NTCA to SC

      The top court had on May 18 expressed serious concern over the cheetah deaths and asked the Centre to rise above politics and consider shifting the animals, which became extinct in the country in 1947-48, to Rajasthan.

    • In Pics: All you need to know about India's Cheetah reintroduction project

      A second batch of 12 cheetahs from South Africa arrived in India on February 18. Here's all you need to know about the Cheetah Reintroduction Project and how the big cat went extinct in India

    • Project Cheetah: Kuno National Park welcomes second batch of cheetahs from South Africa

      Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Minister for Environment and Forests Bhupender Yadav released the second batch of 12 cheetahs brought from South Africa, to their new home Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh on February 18.

    • Project Cheetah: 12 big cats arrive in Gwalior from South Africa; will be taken to Kuno National Park

      The intercontinental translocation of these fastest land animals - first from Namibia and now from South Africa - is part of the Indian government's ambitious cheetah reintroduction programme.

    • Project Cheetah to do wonders for Rajasthan tourism, hope experts

      Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park, the new home of African cheetahs in India, is basking in its new-found global fame after eight cheetahs airlifted from Namibia were released in the wildlife sanctuary recently with much fanfare.

    • Seven decades after their extinction, India releases eight cheetahs into the wild

      The Cheetahs were brought from Namibia in a special cargo flight Boeing -717. After landing in Gwalior, they were flown in a helicopter to Kuno. Around 12 more Cheetahs are expected to arrive later from South Africa later.

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