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Wildfires smoke forces Siberian airport shut

Last Updated: Saturday, July 14, 2012, 23:51

An airport in the Siberian city of Yakutsk was closed Saturday due to thick smoke from wildfires, according to the airport authority.

Ex-Russian cop suspected of raping, killing 25 women

Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2012, 18:33

A Siberian court has sanctioned detention of a former police officer suspected to have sexually assaulted and killed 25 women.

Russian scientists revive plants frozen for 30,000 years

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 09:00

Russian biophysicists have successfully grown ancient plants from tissue material stayed frozen in Siberian region for about 30,000 years.

Siberian prisoners slash wrists over caste issue

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 23:13

82 prisoners slashed their wrists in protest as they were forced to eat from plates used by inmates of lower castes.

5 dead as Russian plane falls in Siberian river

Last Updated: Monday, July 11, 2011, 16:06

At least five people were killed and several others injured when a Russian Antonov An-24 regional airliner with 36 passengers on board ditched in the western Siberian Ob river Monday after its engine caught fire, reports said.

Siberian birds overlook dry reservoirs

Last Updated: Friday, November 26, 2010, 21:58

Migratory birds who visit the Charowa dam in Jharkhand every year during winter have not yet turned up.

China, Russia boost efforts to save tigers

Last Updated: Monday, August 30, 2010, 14:13

China and Russia have agreed to set up the first cross-border protection zone for Siberian tigers.

JD(U) equates visiting central ministers as Siberian birds

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 22:36

The JD(U) took exception to a host of Central ministers visiting Bihar ahead of the assembly polls just to make "baseless allegations" against the NDA government and described them as akin to the "Siberian birds".

Siberian tiger in peril in Russia: WWF

Last Updated: Friday, March 19, 2010, 09:56

The number of Siberian tigers in eastern Russia fell by 15 percent in 2009, a WWF official said on Thursday at an international conference devoted to the endangered animal`s plight.

Eleven Siberian tigers die in China due to malnutrition

Last Updated: Friday, March 12, 2010, 15:27

11 rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China`s frigid northeast.

2 rare Siberian tigers among dead circus cats

Last Updated: Saturday, December 26, 2009, 19:30

Two rare Siberian tigers were among a group of big cats in a Russian traveling circus that died during a 20-hour truck journey this week, a circus administrator said Thursday.

Siberian tiger population falls sharply

Last Updated: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 11:36

The population of Siberian tigers is dropping sharply, with researchers blaming the slump on poachers who are killing the feline for its pelt and bones, a report showed Wednesday.