A controversial elephant in the southern Indian state of Kerala is back in the news after a local temple bid a record amount for his participation in its annual festival. BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi ...

Renowned sitarist Anoushka Shankar and PETA India gift a life-size mechanical elephant to Kombara Sreekrishna Swami Temple.

THRISSUR: The forest officials on Friday recovered a partially decomposed carcass of a wild elephant from a pit of private property at Chelakkara. The primary evidence links the source of the ...

Meanwhile, TNIE learnt Thrissur Mutt has changed the elephant’s name as Lakshmi Narayanan, and is preparing paperwork to obtain an ownership certificate from the Kerala forest department.

A wild elephant charged a car carrying five men to a shooting location in Athirapally in Kerala's Thrissur. The incident caused panic but no injuries.

Thrissur native Datsun calmly stood his ground when he suddenly came face to face with an elephant while riding through the Athirappally-Valparai forest route in Kerala.

Thrissur: A sub-adult male elephant fell into an old unused septic tank in Palappilly village near Chalakudy here on Thursday morning, forest officials said. The incident occurred around 8.30 am ...

Two people, belonging to the tribal community, were allegedly killed in a wild elephant attack near the Athirappilly waterfalls in Thrissur district of Kerala on Monday night, officers said on ...

A temple in India's southern state of Kerala has replaced an elephant with a life-sized mechanical robot to help devotees conduct rituals in a “cruelty-free” manner.

Ramachandran, owned by the Thechikkottukavu temple trust in Thrissur district, is one among hundreds of captive elephants in Kerala that are leased out for temple festivals and other programmes.