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Stray dog menace
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The Tribune – Stray dog menace

THE urgency of sterilising stray dogs with the aim of eventually making our streets free of the canine menace has been underscored for many years, even as cases of rabies and severe injuries due to dog bites and the mauling of people by ferocious hounds have been spiralling. The WHO estimates are frightening: at 18,000-20,000 a year, more than one-third of the global deaths by rabies take place in India; children under the age of 15 are the victims in 30-60 per cent of the dog-bite cases and deaths.

 

The Punjab and Haryana High Court pulling up the Municipal Corporation (MC) of Gurugram for its ‘abysmal failure’ to ensure that the city was rid of stray dogs is a welcome development. The HC was constrained to do so in view of the MC’s lapses and inaction despite startling statistics. Of the over 17,000 stray canines, only 60 are kept in infirmaries and dog-bite cases have been rising. Even pet dogs are a terror as many owners leave them in the open without a leash. The HC Bench had earlier banned ferocious pet dogs of 11 foreign breeds after one of them had claimed a life. This potentially dangerous state of affairs is universal. In February, it came to light that despite four to five dog-bite cases being reported daily in Panchkula, not a single stray canine had been sterilised in the previous four months. The alarming level of the menace is evident in Mohali, too, which witnessed 11,077 dog-bite cases in 2022. Yet, no sterilisation drive has taken place since September 2021. Parliament data reveals that India reported nearly 1.6 crore cases of stray dog bites between 2019 and 2022.

While stray dogs need to be neutered on a war footing, it is equally important to penalise the owners who set free their pets to poop and unleash terror wherever they go.

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Unleash
(verb) – release, free, let loose; to let happen or begin something powerful that, once begun, cannot be controlled

शुरू करना, खोल देना

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Witness
(verb) – Observe, see, note, perceive, watch

देखना

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State
of affair (noun) – Situation, circumstance, condition, state of things

परिस्थिति, हालात

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Universal (adjective) – General, widespread, common, global, worldwide
सार्वभौमिक

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Sterilisation
(noun) – the process of having a medical operation to make it impossible to produce young, or the condition of being unable to produce young

नसबंदी

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Penalise
(verb) – Punish, discipline, sanction,

दंडित करना

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Claim
(verb) – to take lives of someone

की जान लेना

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Potentially
(adjective) – Possibly, conceivably, potentially, feasibly, perchance,

संभवतः

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On a war footing
(phrase) – In a state of readiness for conflict, in a state of high alert,

युद्ध स्तर पर

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Evident
(adjective) – obvious, apparent, noticeable, conspicuous, perceptible

स्पष्ट

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Reveal
(verb) – disclose, divulge, show, expose, uncover

प्रकट करना

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Poop
(verb) – Defecate, relieve oneself,

शौच करना

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Alarming
(adjective) – scary, shocking, frightening, disturbing, astonishing

भयप्रद

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Come to light (phrase) – Be revealed, Become known, Surface, Emerge, Come out, Arise, Become public

 प्रकाश में आना

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Drive
(noun) – campaign, crusade, movement, effort

अभियान, मुहिम

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Neuter
(verb) – to remove part of an animal's sexual organs, so that it cannot produce young animals

नपुंसक बनाना

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Urgency
(noun) – Imperative, exigency, haste, immediacy,

आवश्यकता

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Sterilise
(verb) – deprive (a person or animal) of the ability to produce offspring, typically by removing or blocking the sex organs

बाँझ बनाना

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Canine
(adjective) – Dog-like, doggish, lupine, related to dogs,

कुत्ते सम्बन्धी

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Hound
(noun) – Dog, cur, pooch, pup,

शिकारी कुत्ता

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Pull
up (phrasal verb) – Reprimand, admonish, rebuke, chide,

फटकारना

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Infirmary
(noun) – Hospital, clinic, sickbay,

अस्पताल

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Leash
(noun) – Lead, tether, chain,

पट्टा

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Statistic
(noun) – Data, figure, information, fact, number

आंकड़ा

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Spiralling
(noun) – Increasing rapidly, surging, escalating, ballooning

तेजी से बढ़ रहा है

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Frightening
(adjective) – Making someone afraid or anxious; terrifying.

डरावना

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Abysmal
(adjective) – Terrible, extremely bad, appalling, awful

अत्यंत बुरा

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Lapse
(noun) – mistake, slip, error, blunder

चूक, भूल

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Take
place (phrase) – happen, occur, come about, transpire, come to pass

घटित होना

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Startling
(adjective) – Surprising, astonishing, astounding, staggering, shocking

चौंका देने वाला

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Underscore
(verb) – emphasize, underline, stress, highlight, accentuate

जोर देना

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Rabies
(noun) – a very dangerous disease that a person can get if he/she is bitten by an animal that has the disease

एक ख़तरनाक छूत का रोग (जो इस रोग से ग्रस्‍त पशु के काटने से किसी व्‍यक्ति को हो सकता है)

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Constrain
(verb) – compel, force, oblige, coerce

विवश करना/ मजबूर करना

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Bench
(noun) – The judge or judges composing a court.

न्यायपीठ

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Menace
(noun) – Threat, danger, peril, hazard, risk

खतरा

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Development
(noun) – event, turn of events, occurrence, happening, circumstance

घटनाक्रम

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Estimate
(noun) – Approximation, projection, assessment, evaluation, guess

अनुमान

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Mauling
(noun) – an attack by an animal causing serious injury.

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Ferocious
(adjective) – Savage, fierce, vicious, brutal, violent,

उग्र

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Rid
of (phrase) – Free from, clear of, devoid of,

से छुटकारा पाना

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Imperative
(noun) – Necessity, Obligation, Essential, Crucial,

आत्यावश्यक

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Stay
away (phrasal verb) – Avoid, keep away, steer clear, eschew, abstain

दूर रहना