Jain monk Nileshchandra Vijay began a protest at Mumbai's Azad Maidan on Monday (November 3, 2025), opposing the civic body's decision to shut down the Dadar Kabutarkhana, a site where the community ...

With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) move to ban pigeon feeding and Kabutar Khanas, a massive protest sparked across Mumbai. Jain Muni Nileshchandra Vijay said during an address that he ...

Following the Bombay High Court's July 15 order banning pigeon feeding across Kabutar Khaasna, a surprising wave of defiance has swept through the city. Despite the judiciary’s strict prohibition, ...

Mumbai, Aug 13: A dispute broke out in Mumbai on Wednesday over the ban on feeding pigeons at Kabutar Khana in Dadar. The Jain community opposed the order, while the Marathi Ekikaran Samiti staged a ...

What do you think of pigeons? Once the sort of question you’d ask after one drink too many, or to rescue that sinking first date conversation, now has the entire city up in arms. The question has ...

Seventy-five-year-old Anasuya Patel and her husband VP Patel, 77, can barely walk without support. But on Wednesday morning, the couple joined an angry crowd as it marched towards the iconic ...

Over a hundred members of the Jain community took to the streets Wednesday morning, forcefully opened the Dadar Kabutarkhana and offered grains to pigeons at a time when the Brihanmumbai Municipal ...

The BMC’s ongoing crackdown on kabutar khanas (public pigeon feeding spots) took a dramatic turn on Wednesday morning. Hundreds of ... Mumbai: Tension at Dadar Kabutarkhana as Huge Mob of Jain ...

Tensions flared in Mumbai's Dadar locality on Wednesday morning after members of the Jain community gathered in large numbers to protest against the closure of the iconic Kabutarkhana (pigeon feeding ...

‘While abrupt bans are not the answer, feeding should take place in designated, hygienic aviaries’, said Animal rights group PETA A man stands next to a 'kabutarkhana' (pigeon feeding area), covered ...

Mumbai, Aug 5: Amid a growing outcry over the demolition of kabutar khanas (pigeon feeding zones) in Mumbai, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ...

A day after the BMC covered the Dadar kabutar khana with bamboos and tarpaulin, several pigeon feeders protested on the spot on Sunday claiming that 'thousands of pigeons died since morning because of ...