Mark Shand, 62, died on April 23, 2014 from a head injury suffered in a fall when he reportedly tried to re-enter a New York City bar through a revolving door, after smoking a cigarette outside. Shand, the younger brother of British Prince Charles’ wife Camilla Parker Bowles, was author of the 1992 British […]
Awards & honors, 2nd quarter 2014
The C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyar Foundation, Animal Welfare Board of India, and Winsome Constance Kindness Trust on March 23, 2014 saluted the students of the Shri B.S. Mootha School in Chennai for presenting the best Kindness Kids program in a contest involving 17,000 children in four cities of Tamil Nadu and […]
Awards & Honors, 1st quarter 2014
The 25th annual edition of the Limca Book of Records honored 25 women for their contributions to Indian society, including Geeta Seshamani, founder of the Friendicoes Society for Eradicating Cruelty to Animals and cofounder of Wildlife SOS. Friendicoes has operated a dog-and-cat shelter in Delhi since 1979, and has […]
Bear rescue season follows tsunami
Wildlife SOS on the job AGRA, CHENGDU––Wildlife SOS founder Kartick Satyanarayan spent most of the first two months of 2005 often literally up to his hips in post-tsunami swamp water and sometimes displaced salt water crocodiles, gorged on human remains. Still, Satyanarayan did not forget that his primary objective for the year was to rescue […]