THE elderly couple whose work on rehabilitating wild elephants in Tamil Nadu, India, was popularised in an Oscar-winning documentary has been given round-the-clock police protection, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Their work and bond with an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu at the Mudumalai National Park who survived and grew to be a healthy juvenile was captured in The Elephant Whisperers.
Bomman and Bellie became overnight celebrities after the documentary received critical acclaim and won awards. The two, who are scheduled to receive a visit from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week, have received police protection ahead of the event. > A hundred pupils from three Tamil schools in Segamat, Johor, received free school supplies courtesy of the Tebrau Maveerar Iyakkam, the daily also reported.
Iyakkam chairman S. Thanabalan said many families in the district were affected by the recent floods.The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers . As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
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