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Celina Jaitly Files Police Complaint Over Sunder

Celina Jaitly recently took to Twitter to urge her fans to help #FreeSunder – the captive elephant held in Kolhapur by Maharashtra Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Vinay Kore, and …

Cosmetics Testing Ban on Animals Now Permanent

Following the removal of animal tests from the cosmetics testing standards by the PCD 19 Cosmetics Sectional Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) last year, the Ministry …

Cricketer Pragyan Ojha Says NO to Zoos

Mumbai Indians bowler Pragyan Ojha is a star, including for animals. In his new PETA ad shot by top photographer YSN Murthy, Pragyan relates to animals’ misery in zoos …

Tamil Nadu: Start Snapping for Bulls!

Many people in Tamil Nadu and around the world celebrated the recent decision by the Supreme Court of India, which upheld a ban on the use of bulls in …

Sunder Found Wounded on Kore’s Property

During a recent veterinary inspection by an elephant expert, 14-year-old elephant Sunder was found with what the health examination report calls a “MASSIVE wound … as a result of …

SC Says Cockfights, Dogfights Must End

The official order of the Honourable Supreme Court of India – which passed a landmark judgment in favour of PETA India and the government advisory body the Animal Welfare …

Import Ban on Animal Tested Cosmetics Near

Animal tests for cosmetics have been removed from the list of testing requirements by the Bureau of Indian Standards’ Cosmetics Sectional Committee (PCD 19), but foreign manufacturers that test …

Medical Council to Universities: Use Non-Animal Teaching Methods

Animals used in university medical courses are confined to small cages, cut up and killed, but PETA India is able to reveal that all that is changing. That’s because, …

Sunder in the Supreme Court

As mentioned in our recent update, Member of Legislative Assembly Vinay Kore – who, although not the legal owner of Sunder, had given him as a gift to the …

Air India: ‘Goof-Ups Are Our Business’

OK, so that’s not really Air India’s motto, but if you look at the airline’s track record of blunders over the past few years – including breaking its promise …