Tiger found dead in Uttar Pradesh

October 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The number of tigers in Uttar Pradesh has plummeted from 273 to 109 in four years, but the state wildlife authorities are blaming a change in the census technique for the drastic decline. Faced with the disappearance of over 160 tigers, they say the system of using pugmarks to establish the tiger count was prevalent till 2005 after which the camera-trap method has been in use.

June 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A gangster who had 28 criminal cases pending against him was found shot dead in an Uttar Pradesh town, police said Saturday. "Babloo Dubeys bullet-ridden body was found today (Saturday) in the fields near Jahanganj town in Azamgarh district," police inspector O.P.

May 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A policeman was found dead Wednesday morning with a bullet injury to his head at the official residence of an Uttar Pradesh minister to whom he was assigned as a guard, the police said. Constable Suresh Kumar was found dead in his quarter inside Tourism Minister Vinod Singh's residence on the Kalidas Marg here.

May 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A tiger killed a woman and mauled several other people in an Uttar Pradesh village, officials said Monday. The tiger, which strayed out of the Katarniyaghat forest reserve in Bahraich district, entered the Thadbehna village in the district, where it Sunday night killed a 65-year-old woman Sudha, they added.

April 16th, 2009 BHOPAL - A tiger cub succumbed to injuries here after being hurt by an adult tiger. Eleven months old Pancham was brought in an injured condition to Bhopal's Van Vihar National Park on April 4.

March 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Prabunath Singh, former Bihar state minister, was found dead Monday under mysterious circumstances in a train in Uttar Pradesh, railway officials said. 'Singh was found dead in the Vaishali Express at the Basti railway station in Uttar Pradesh,' Government Railway Police (GRP) inspector S.K.

March 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man-eating tiger, which had claimed atleast five lives, creating panic in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur-Kheri district, was captured live on Friday. The tranquilised tiger was brought to a zoo in Lucknow.

February 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Another stray tiger on the prowl is keeping Uttar Pradesh wildlife officials on tenterhooks, days after they revelled in the glory of eliminating a man-eater after a chase of nearly four months. While the Faizabad man-eater was gunned down Tuesday with the help of an expert shooter from Hyderabad, the second tiger has been located on the periphery of the thick forests of Lakhimpur-Kheri, about 200 km from the state capital.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday said that it has finalised its pre-poll alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a party with some influence in western Uttar Pradesh. 'The alliance with the RLD has been finalised.

February 25th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man-eater tiger that claimed four lives in the last two months in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad district and its adjoining area was Tuesday shot down by forest officials. 'The tiger that claimed four human lives was killed in the Bakchula forest in Faizabad late this (Tuesday) evening,' divisional forest officer (DFO) O.P.

February 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man-eating tiger that has been on the prowl for over a month and killed five people in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district will be shot dead, a forest official said Saturday. 'We have got permission from the state government to kill the tiger, which has claimed five lives,' Shailesh Prasad, director of the Dudhwa National Park, told IANS on phone.

February 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A young tiger which was declared a man-eater has been shot in Uttar Pradesh's Kumarganj area in Faizabad district -- but it is yet not confirmed if it has died, an official said Sunday. The tiger was shot near the Kamakhya Devi temple in Kumarganj area late Saturday evening, but it ran away into a nearby forest.

January 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A tiger that strayed out of the forest in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh, has already killed three people and has been declared a man-eater will not be killed if it can be captured and tranquilised, the state's forest minister has ordered. 'I've made it very clear to my officials that they must not leave any stone unturned to first trap or tranquilise the tiger.

January 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Alerted by the intervention of the high court, Uttar Pradesh Forest Minister Fateh Bahadur Singh has come to the rescue of the young tiger that strayed out of the forest in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh and has already killed three people. 'I have made it very clear to my officials that they must not leave any stone unturned to first trap or tranquilise the tiger.

January 2nd, 2009 PATNA - A tiger that wandered into a Bihar village from a nearby reserve has created panic after residents spotted it hiding in the fields. Forest officials are camping in the area to catch the animal that has reportedly killed two people in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.