India, March 27 -- A two-and-a-half-year-old tiger that travelled an unprecedented 500 kilometres from Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yavatmal to Solapur-Dharashiv districts has gone missing since a week, prompting the forest department to launch an extensive search operation for the big cat.

The tiger, which entered Dharashiv district in December 2024, was the first-of-its-kind to be sighted in the region in the past many years. Since then, it had been roaming the border areas of Solapur and Dharashiv, primarily within the Yedshi Ramaling Wildlife Sanctuary. Following the tiger's sighting in Solapur-Dharashiv, the principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF), wildlife division, Maharashtra, ordered its capture and subsequent relocatio...