Panna tigress found with two cubs

The two tigresses were shifted in March last year,while the male from Pench joined them in November.

Deputy Director Panna V S Parihar told The Indian Express that T2 was barely spotted six or seven times ever since she was brought to the park. To make matters worse,its radio-collar had stopped functioning since July last year.

About five days back,the forest staff traced the tigress and attempts were being made to collar it when they found the two cubs. The cubs are aged between two and three months.

Two more tigresses were set to be shifted to Panna recently but the process has been put on hold for a while.

2 poachers gunned down in Kaziranga

Guwahati: Forest guards at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam gunned down two poachers in an encounter on Monday,and recovered a rhino horn from their possession. As many as nine poachers have been killed in the park this year.

Though the poachers first managed to escape then,they were later tracked down by a patrol party and killed in an exchange of fire at around 8 am, said Kaziranga divisional forest officer Dibyadhar Gogoi.