With animal acts banned, Eastern India’s biggest travelling circus introduced performers dressed as a panda and a gorilla to ...

It began like a quiet buzz in the neighbourhood. Someone said they saw posters near the bus stop, someone else swore they heard a lion's roar from the maidan. By evening, it was official: the circus ...

EVERETT -- As they lumbered past a muffler shop and the China Doll Restaurant yesterday, the closest the 10 Asian elephants came to their natural grassland habitat was a strip of manicured lawn near ...

John Abraham has been successful in a campaign to end the use of elephants in Indian circuses. The actor is one of a number of stars in the country to work with People for the Ethical Treatment of ...