Military dogs could soon be relaying live visuals of their area of operation to their handlers sitting afar via Augmented Reality (AR) goggles. The system is based on Microsoft’s Hololens technology and was created by A.J. Peper, founder of Seattle-based firm Command Sight. He added an optoelectronic component, which converts ...

The municipal corporation (MC) has got sterilisation of stray dogs resumed after a gap of one year, allotting the work to the successful bidder for a year following the tender process. The civic body will pay Rs 870 per dog to the bidder the last time the fee was Rs ...

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has raised a new unit of assault dogs, which have been trained to work in packs of four to pin down enemy troopers if the force’s patrol teams are attacked, officials said on Thursday. The first batch of about half-a-dozen dogs completed successful training recently at ...

The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts. During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a health care worker’s job is assessing people who have symptoms of Covid-19. Researchers from ...

In a study published in PNAS, researchers used conservation biology and genomics to discover that the New Guinea singing dog, thought to be extinct for 50 years, still thrives. Scientists found that the ancestral dog population still stealthily wanders in the Highlands of New Guinea. This finding opens new doors ...

The stray dog sterilization project has come to a halt in a halt in the absence of labourers. The firm hired by the municipal corporation for the project is now arranging workers from other states. But as it is taking time, the work has taken a hit. The MC officials ...

This is the story of four dogs, and while, like all dog stories, it is about love, devotion, and duty, it isn’t a happy one. The four dogs have been a constant presence at Rajamalai in Kerala’s Idukki district, the site of a landslide that has claimed at least 45 ...

Dogs do not simply age at seven times the rate of humans, scientists have found in a study that reveals young dogs might be “older” than previously thought. The findings suggest a one-year-old puppy is actually about 30 in “human years” – an age when humans, at least, might be ...

The Municipal Corporation’s (MC) sterilization drive to control the population of stray dogs has found no takers. The civic body failed to find any agency in several tenders floated in the past 10 months. The contract period of the firm, which was doing the job earlier, had also expired. Following ...

As frontline warriors engage in a dogged battle with Covid-19, it turns out that their rewards can be lower than a dog trainer. Gujarat Police has issued an advertisement seeking a senior training consultant, a junior training consultant, and a veterinary doctor for their dog (K-9) squad. The appointees to ...