Army celebrates 10th anniversary of recapture of Tiger Hills

September 17th, 2009 DEHRADUN - The Uttarakhand Government has decided to set up a Tiger Protection Force to prevent poaching in the Corbett Tiger Reserve. The Field Director of Corbett National Park will head the force, which would be operational from January 2010.

August 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The consular staff of the Pakistan High Commission-led by the High Commissioner in New Delhi celebrated the nation's 62nd anniversary of Independence Day on Friday. To mark the I-Day celebrations, the High Commission was decorated lavishly and the children of the consular staff presented colourful cultural programmes.

July 26th, 2009 DRASS - The Kargil martyrs were paid homage at the Drass War Memorial on Sunday on the occasion of 10th anniversary of Kargil War. Officers and jawans, as well as families of many of the martyrs, laid wreaths at the war memorial in the morning.

July 26th, 2009 DRASS - The hills of Kargil came alive Sunday night in a glow of yellow lights as India marked the 10th anniversary of its military victory against Pakistan by paying homage to the over 500 soldiers killed while recapturing the treacherous peaks. In an unprecedented military ceremony of its kind, army officers and soldiers, family members of those killed in the May-July 1999 fighting as well as people of this Shia-dominated region along the border of Jammu and Kashmir paid moving tributes to the martyrs of Kargil.

July 26th, 2009 DRASS - The hills of Drass in Jammu and Kashmir were lit up Sunday night climaxing a spectacular ceremony held here to mark the 10th anniversary of India's victory in the Kargil conflict with Pakistan. The peaks, recaptured from Pakistani intruders, that witnessed missile firings and shellings a decade ago were lit up with torches as the darkness descended on this town near the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir.

July 26th, 2009 PALAMPUR - Parents of Tiger Hills Hero Captain Vikram Batra, who laid down his life fighting on the snow-capped peaks of Kargil, have demanded the inclusion of war history in school texts for posterity. On Sunday as the country celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Kargil victory, Captain Batra's father G.L.

July 23rd, 2009 SUNDERBANS - A 12 year-old male tiger returned to his familiar territory of the Sunderban Tiger Reserve in West Bengal on Wednesday after four months of treatment in captivity. The tiger had wounded his right hind leg in March this year.

July 23rd, 2009 KARGIL - A colourful dance festival, featuring artists from all parts of the country, was recently organised here by the Indian Army to mark the 10th anniversary of the Kargil war and to acknowledge the help and cooperation of the people of Kargil. Artists from all over the country came together to perform and spread the message of unity and integration.

April 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sarita Mandanna, a US-based Indian author, has created ripples in the publishing world as her 'Tiger Hills' has received the largest advance Penguin India house has so far paid for a debut novel. David Godwin Associates Ltd., the Britain-based literary agency, has sold 'Tiger Hills' to Penguin Books-India for an undisclosed amount.

March 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal forest officials Wednesday said they have arrested two people for allegedly smuggling a tiger skin from the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (STR). 'We arrested two persons from Sundarbans late Tuesday night who were smuggling out a skin of a full-grown tiger from the forest territory,' South 24-Parganas Divisional Forest Officer S.

February 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A male adult tiger has been found dead in a forest area in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, an official said Monday. 'The tiger was found dead on a tree Sunday evening in the Mahof forest,' divisional forest officer Pramod Gupta told IANS over telephone.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A woman was mauled to death by a tiger when she entered a forest near the Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand to collect fuel wood, officials said Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday at the Sarpduli forest range, just outside the park.

December 30th, 2008 KOLKATA - The West Bengal forest department Wednesday took an injured Royal Bengal tiger to Kolkata zoo after the big cat strayed into a village in Sundarbans Tuesday morning. 'The tiger was taken to Kolkata zoo today (Wednesday) and is now under medical observation of our expert team.

December 27th, 2008 KOLKATA - Three people, including a girl and a forest official, were injured when a tiger sneaked into a West Bengal village near Sundarbans Sunday morning. The man-eater was later caged by the forest department officials.

December 22nd, 2008 LUCKNOW - Forest department officials who failed to trap a two-year-old tiger in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district have been summoned here to give an explanation, an official said Tuesday. The tiger was last spotted Monday evening in Sarai Bilhari village in Barabanki, some 30 km from the state capital here.