Ambedkar’s party joins hands with Owaisi’s party to contest polls from Karnataka

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March 10, 2019

Belagavi, Mar 10: Bharatiya Republic Party President Prakash Ambedkar, who is also grandson of Indian Constitution architect late Dr Babashab Ambedkar has said that his party has joined hands with Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majalis-e-Ittehadul Muslimin (AIMIM) to contest coming Lok Sabha elections from Karnataka, Maharashtra and in other parts of the country as people are looking for alternative for Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Addressing party workers of both the parties here on Saturday, he said that there are two ideologies in India one is in favor of Constitution and another in favor of Manusmriti.

"Constitution gives rights to everyone irrespective of religion, cast and creed while Manusmriti gives the position to only upper cast Hindu's. Today 15 per cent upper cast is ruling 130 crore population while backward, Dalit and Muslims who are 80 per cent in country were deprived of their basic rights. The Mahatma Gandhi's Congress party has much changed in period of time now become family party," he said.

He said that the Congress in past 60 years has failed to bring the RSS under constitution and indirectly promoted. Both these parties have lost faith of general people, therefore it is time contest the elections ourselves and enter the Parliament and get our issues resolved. Congress is soft on Hinduism while BJP promotes hard Hinduism. But none of them are thinking of the other class, religion people.

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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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