Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde has been selected as vice-president of the All India Mayors' Council and will formally assume office during the organisation's 117th executive committee meeting in Rishikesh. The two-day gathering will bring together mayors from across India to discuss urban development

Under this initiative, automated wildlife acoustic recorders are being deployed in forest areas to continuously capture natural sounds and bird calls from the environment, said the Haldwani Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Kundan Kumar