Ravindra Kaushik (11 April 1952 – 21 November 2001) was an Indian Research and Analysis Wing agent who spied for India from 1975 until he was captured in 1983. Also known as The Black Tiger , Kaushik is considered as one of India's greatest spies. [2] He worked as a clerk in the Pakistan Army's Military Accounts Department, not as a commissioned officer. [3] He was exposed after a botched communication attempt by another operative. Arrested and interrogated, he was sentenced to death in ... Black Tigers are a rare colour variant of the tiger and are not a distinct species or geographic subspecies. The coat colouration and patterning that make the wild cats appear dark boil down to a single mutation in the Transmembrane Aminopeptidase Q (Taqpep) gene. After 120 days in Odisha’s forests, Prasenjeet Yadav captured the rare black tiger , now on National Geographic’s cover. What are Black Tigers or Melanistic Tigers? Melanism is a genetic condition in which an increased production of melanin, a substance in the skin that produces hair, eye and skin pigmentation, results in black (or nearly black) skin, feathers or hair in an animal.
