Cape Town: Researchers should suggest solutions too, says UTK

October 3, 2014

Cape Town, Oct 3: The idea of health insurance by company will make health insurance company healthy and not the people. Hence government only should form a trust and pay hospital directly, said Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader.

He was delivering a talk on œimplementation of medical schemes and problems at the annual conference of World Health Organisation organized at Cape Town, South Africa under the theme Medical Assistance for Rural Health Awareness.

Mr Khader who began his speech wishing Good Morning, Namasthe, Assalamu Alaikum, also spoke in Kannada.

He said that the policy done by researchers should have flexibility and power to district level officer to bend the rules according to situation in that local place.

He said that there should be close network between policy makers researchers, implementers and monitors.

Researchers should not only research the problem but suggest solutions too he said adding that solutions for every problem will give way to rise of other problem.

Thanking the organizers he said: œIt is my pleasure to be in the land where Nelson Mandela gave the message of unity and peace, from where Mahatma Gandhi was inspired to lead the struggle for free India and where the first heart transplantation was achieved.

It may be recalled here that Mr Khader had addressed the European parliament at Brussels in Belgium through a video conference in September 2013.

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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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