Chennai tragedy: Airlines flood their coffers with extra money

Bengaluru, Dec 5: Even though entire India is shell-shocked after witnessing the sufferings of people in flood hit Chennai, the airlines in India are literally celebrating the calamity. Yes, this is the right time to loot the helpless people!

Chennai’s Anna International Airport was shut until Sunday after the operational area was submerged under seven feet of water. The stranded passengers headed by road to Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Tirupati and Madurai hoping to get to their destinations, only to cough up exorbitantly high rates for one-way domestic fares.

Fares from Bengaluru airport shot up to multiple times the normal last minute rates as incessant rains and floods brought the southern city to a halt and grounded passengers.

Here is a shocking screenshot of the Mumbai-Bengaluru flight fares appeared on flight booking portal makemytrip on Friday.

On flight booking portal Yatra.com, a one-way, non-stop ticket to Mumbai from Bengaluru for Saturday, December 5, 2015, ranged from Rs 19,119 on SpiceJet to Rs 41,560 on Air India.

Ignoring non-stops, ticket prices ranged from Rs 8,259 (Air India, one-stop at Hyderabad) to Rs 57,965 (Jet Airways, via New Delhi). The cheapest one-way, non-stop ticket to Delhi for the same day was quoting at Rs 17,538 (GoAir), going all the way up to Rs 28,269 (SpiceJet).

A family which had arrived in Bengaluru from Chennai, ended up paying around Rs 85,000 for a flight to Mumbai. The family of five, including a one-year-old toddler in tow, took a SpiceJet flight from Kempegowda International Airport here on Friday, after buying tickets from the airport counter.

Ministry intervenes

Meanwhile, the civil aviation ministry, which had warned airlines that it would intervene if the carriers didn't stop taking advantage of the situation, said that six low-priced flights would operate daily from the naval airbase in Chennai over the next two days to rescue stranded passengers.

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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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