Apex court was hearing petition alleging that forest officials allowed a private operator to ply buses within the core area of the tiger reserve as some villages within the park did not have access to roads.

Rajaji Tiger Reserve Director Saket Badola informed that one of the cubs was male and the other female.

Tigers for Rajasthan will not be taken from protected areas but from buffer zones, complying with NTCA guidelines. Odisha's request for three tigers is pending. Requests followed Uttarakhand's successful relocation of four tigers from Corbett Tiger Reserve to Rajaji Tiger Reserve, according to officials.

The tigress was captured on March 7 and is awaiting necessary medical examination before translocation. The translocation is part of the ongoing Tiger Relocation Project aimed at increasing the tiger population at Rajaji.