With over 150 anti-poaching camps in the Kaziranga National Park affected by the Assam floods, the authorities are working round-the-clock to check poaching at the UNESCO World Heritage site, officials said.
The staff and security personnel are performing their duties using mechanised and country boats to deal with any kind of eventualities, they said.
Ninety per cent of the Kaziranga National Park in Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state was still submerged, a statement from the Assam Ministry of Forest and Environment said.
6.00 pm: One-horned rhinoceros are seen moving to an elevated area following floods due to incessant monsoon rainfall in Kaziranga National Park, Assam on July 16, 2019.
5.00 pm: Police use water cannons to disperse Jan Adhikar Party supporters during their Vidhan Sabha gherao protest over the death of children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and other issues, in Patna, Bihar on July 16, 2019.
4.00 PM: Germany's Ursula von der Leyen delivers her speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday July 16, 2019. Ursula von der Leyen outlined her vision and plans as Commission President. The vote, held by secret paper ballot, will take place later today.
3.00 pm: Four former GOA Chief Ministers Digambar Kamat, Luizinho Faleiro , Pratapsing Rane, Ravi Naik along with Curtorim MLA Reginald Lawrenco on the 2nd Day of Assembly session at Porvorim on Tuesday. They are the only 5 MLAs left with Congress, After 10 MLAs merge with BJP recently including the Opposition Leader Chandrakant Kavlekar.
2.00 pm: Pilgrims stand in a queue to get themselves registered for Amarnath Yatra, at a base camp in Jammu, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. The 15th batch of 3,967 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu on July 16 to pay obeisance at the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said.
1.00 pm: Two women were killed and around 40 to 50 people feared trapped under the debris of a four- storey building that collapsed in Mumbai's Dongri area on Tuesday morning. Civic officials said the incident was reported to them around 11.12 a.m. and by 12.30 p.m, the Mumbai Fire Brigade had escalated it to a Level III emergency.
11.30 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Rajnath Singh, J.P. Nadda, Amit Shah, Devendra Pradhan and Jaishankar during the BJP's Parliamentary Party meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday, July 16, 2019.
10.45 am: Congress legislatures D.K. Shivakumar, G. Parameswara arriving at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru for Tuesday’s session.
9.15 am: An Indonesian soldier looks at a Hindu temple damaged following an earthquake in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on Tuesday, July 16, 2019
8.00 am: Florian Wellbrock of Germany touches the timing board to win the men's 10km open water swim at the World Swimming Championships in Yeosu, South Korea, Tuesday, July 16, 2019.
