Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Even as Madhya Pradesh’s forest staff underwent specialised training for the upcoming nationwide tiger census, a brief panic erupted in Indore on Thursday after reports of a tiger sighting near Umrikheda, behind a private college, spread across the area.

Forest officials, including DFO Pramod Mishra and ranger Sangeeta Thakur, rushed to the site to verify the sighting after a photo claiming to show a tiger went viral. However, it was soon discovered that the image was actually a still taken from an old Ratapani waterfall video, confirming that it was a false alarm.

On one hand, forest officials and field staff were engaged in intensive training sessions to refine their skills for accurate tiger tracking and population estimation. On the other, teams were scramb

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