Tiger Avni

An offspring of tigress Avni, which had been put down earlier after killing several people, had to be retrieved from the jungle following injuries in an internecine fight on Monday, having been released in the wild on Friday, forest officials from Pench Tiger Reserve said.

The female cub of tigress Avni,who was shot dead after being declared a man-eater in November 2018, has been released into the wild in the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) of Maharashtra's Nagpur district after over two years of "re-wilding" efforts, authorities said.

A contempt petition against Maharashtra forest officials for killing a tigress in 2018 will be heard in the Supreme Court today.

The Supreme Court today issued a contempt notice to nine persons, mostly Maharashtra government officials, in connection with the killing of Avni, an adult tigress, in Maharashtra in 2018. While the court sought evidence to confirm whether or not the big cat was a man-eater, its notification demanded answers on the reward given out for the act in v...

The final report of the National Tiger Conservation Authority's (NTCA) fact-finding committee has raised questions over the way 'man-eater' tigress Avni was killed in Maharashtra last month.

Senior BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar has said he is upset at Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's criticism of him on tigress Avni's killing, and therefore is not willing to participate in alliance talks with the latter.

The orphaned cubs of a man-eating tiger killed in a state-sanctioned hunt have been spotted in a forest in Maharashtra and could be rescued and rehabilitated, officials said Thursday.

The killing of the man-eater tigress Avni has emerged into a full blown war of words between the forest minister in the BJP-led Maharashtra government and union minister Maneka Gandhi. A day after Ms Gandhi called the shooting Avni a "ghastly murder" and a "straight case of crime", the Maharashtra minister said that the Centre should now on take de...

Rahul Gandhi's tweet today targeted the Maharashtra government over the killing of the tigress Avni last week.

A tigress was beaten to death by villagers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district on Sunday after it mauled a villager, who died during treatment in hospital. The incident comes days after a controversy erupted over the killing of another tigress, known as Avni, that was believed to have killed 13 people in the last two years in a forest in Ma...

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday lashed out at the BJP-led Maharashtra government over the "ghastly murder" of man-eating tigress Avni, calling it a "straight case of crime".

Officially, she is T1, a deadly tigress weighing about 300 pounds believed responsible for 13 deaths over the last 2 years as she prowls through the forests of Yavatmal in Maharashtra. But to people who want to save her, she is Avni, meaning The Earth.

An offspring of tigress Avni, which had been put down earlier after killing several people, had to be retrieved from the jungle following injuries in an internecine fight on Monday, having been released in the wild on Friday, forest officials from Pench Tiger Reserve said.

The female cub of tigress Avni,who was shot dead after being declared a man-eater in November 2018, has been released into the wild in the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) of Maharashtra's Nagpur district after over two years of "re-wilding" efforts, authorities said.

A contempt petition against Maharashtra forest officials for killing a tigress in 2018 will be heard in the Supreme Court today.

The Supreme Court today issued a contempt notice to nine persons, mostly Maharashtra government officials, in connection with the killing of Avni, an adult tigress, in Maharashtra in 2018. While the court sought evidence to confirm whether or not the big cat was a man-eater, its notification demanded answers on the reward given out for the act in v...

The final report of the National Tiger Conservation Authority's (NTCA) fact-finding committee has raised questions over the way 'man-eater' tigress Avni was killed in Maharashtra last month.

Senior BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar has said he is upset at Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's criticism of him on tigress Avni's killing, and therefore is not willing to participate in alliance talks with the latter.

The orphaned cubs of a man-eating tiger killed in a state-sanctioned hunt have been spotted in a forest in Maharashtra and could be rescued and rehabilitated, officials said Thursday.

The killing of the man-eater tigress Avni has emerged into a full blown war of words between the forest minister in the BJP-led Maharashtra government and union minister Maneka Gandhi. A day after Ms Gandhi called the shooting Avni a "ghastly murder" and a "straight case of crime", the Maharashtra minister said that the Centre should now on take de...

Rahul Gandhi's tweet today targeted the Maharashtra government over the killing of the tigress Avni last week.

A tigress was beaten to death by villagers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district on Sunday after it mauled a villager, who died during treatment in hospital. The incident comes days after a controversy erupted over the killing of another tigress, known as Avni, that was believed to have killed 13 people in the last two years in a forest in Ma...

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday lashed out at the BJP-led Maharashtra government over the "ghastly murder" of man-eating tigress Avni, calling it a "straight case of crime".

Officially, she is T1, a deadly tigress weighing about 300 pounds believed responsible for 13 deaths over the last 2 years as she prowls through the forests of Yavatmal in Maharashtra. But to people who want to save her, she is Avni, meaning The Earth.