Tag: Tigress Avni

Mumbai: Environmentalists have knocked the doors of Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi seeking an NIA probe into the killing of alleged man-eater tigress Avni (T1) in Maharashtra six days ago, with plans to file a PIL in the Supreme Court soon, activists said. Simultaneously, Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam alleged that in the past one year […]

New Delhi: Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday slammed the Maharashtra government over the killing of the maneater tigress Avni. Gandhi, in a tweet, hit out at Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar saying “it is nothing but a straight case of crime” and said she will take up the matter “very […]

Nagpur: Avni, a five-year old alleged man-eater tigress who had created terror in Maharshtra’s Vidarbha forests, was shot dead on Saturday in Yavatmal district. The search operation came after nearly three months of a massive tigress-hunt along with trap cameras, drones, a pack of trained sniffer dogs and a hang-glider along with a team of […]

New Delhi: No previous government has worked with the kind of “depth and seriousness” this dispensation has, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said Monday as he hit back at Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s barb at the Centre over the killing of tigress Avni. The government does not need a certificate from Rahul Gandhi, Vardhan said. […]