India, March 1 -- The grouping's structure will consist of an Assembly of Members, Standing Committee and a Secretariat; its statutehas been drafted largely on the pattern of the International Solar Alliance

An International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA), the idea for which was first floated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019, will have its headquarters in India, the Centre announced on February 29, 2024.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the prime minister, has also allocated a one-time budgetary support of Rs 150 crore for IBCA for a five-year period - 2023-24 to 2027-28.

'Big Cat' is a term that is used in informal speech to apply to any large species of the family Felidae . Usually, it applies to the members of the genus Panthera . Thes...