14-year-old boy grievously injured in mobile blast

Mysuru: Mar 18: In second such incident since February, a 14-year-old boy was severely injured when a mobile phone exploded in his hand at his house at Attiganahalli in Pandavapura taluk, Mandya district, on?March 14.

A ?Y Rohit, son of Yogaraju, was playing a game on his elder brother’s Chinese-make cellphone ‘Forme’, while simultaneously charging it, when the equipment exploded. Rohit lost a part of his righthand finger and suffered cut wounds on his left hand.Rohit is studying SSLC at the Government Higher Primary?School in Sunkatonnur near his native village in the same district.

Rohit, currently being treated at the general ward in JSS?Hospital on MG?Road said that he had returned home from school around 1 pm on the day the incident occurred, and started playing a game soon after putting the phone on charge as the battery had drained. “However, the phone exploded immediately,” he said.

He was alone at home as his parents and brother were working in their agricultural field.

Petrified, Rohit ran out of the house to meet his parents. He was provided first aid at the government hospital in Pandavapura town, before being shifted to?JSS in Mysuru.

Rohit is now doubly worried, as he will be not able to write the SSLC examinations this year.

According to plastic surgeon Dr L?Vijay, Rohit was operated upon with wound debridement, K-wire fixation and suturing, two days after the incident, on March 16. His condition is said to be stable.

Surgery on SeetharamOn February 3, Seetharam, a 18-year-old youth from Bihar, suffered grievous injuries on the lower part of his face, following a mobile phone blast at his makeshift shed at Kadaballi in Nagamangala taluk,?Mandya district.On March 10, he underwent another major surgery for the reconstruction of his low jaw bone and lower lip, hospital sources said.

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Elusive bamboo shrimp resurfaces in Mangaluru estuary after 70 years

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December 7,2025

Mangaluru, Dec 7: A rare bamboo shrimp has been rediscovered on mainland India more than 70 years after it was last reported, confirming for the first time the presence of Atyopsis spinipes in the country. The find was made by researchers from the Centre for Climate Change Studies at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, during surveys in Karnataka and Odisha.

The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

The shrimp has now been confirmed at two locations: the Mulki–Pavanje estuary near Mangaluru and the Kuakhai River in Bhubaneswar. Historical specimens from the Andaman Islands, previously labelled as A. moluccensis, were also found to be misidentified and actually belong to A. spinipes.

The rediscovery began after an aquarium hobbyist in Odisha spotted a shrimp in 2022, prompting systematic surveys across Udupi, Karwar and Mangaluru. Four female specimens were collected in Mulki and one in Odisha, all genetically matching.

Researchers warn the species may exist in very small, vulnerable populations as freshwater habitats face increasing pressure from pollution, sand mining and infrastructure development. All verified specimens have been deposited with the Zoological Survey of India for future reference.

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