Temple car set afire in Chamarajanagar

Chamarajanagar, Feb 20: Several organisations have given Chamarajanagar bandh call on Monday condemning setting the Ratha (car) of Chamarajeshwara temple on fire by a group of unidentified persons on Saturday night.

The incident of miscreants setting fire to the temple was captured on CCTV camera installed at the entrance of a bank near the temple. The chariot is covered with coco¬n¬ut fronds once the car festival is over. On Saturday night, the residents in the vicinity who found the chariot in flames, immediately alerted the Fire and Emergency Services department, who rushed to the spot and doused the flames, averting a major damage.

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Manjunath .... True , the associates of arrested 11 sanghi people might have done this job for MONEY.... or may be to make Insurance claim .... No sane man will indulge in such activities .... Once they are caught ( who ever may be ) , the police should use AK 47 on them ...

No the rss back bjp goons will start communal tension all over karnataka
as a vote bank game.
Since the training is from well planned MOSSAD and his associated ISIS group, people of karnataka have to take more attention and care on their lives.

Hope all will unite to and erase these groups and their leader from the route else all have to face worst than Yugoslavia Syria.

God Save Karnataka.

looks like ISI linked VHP or paki FLAg hosters's SRIRAMSENA terrors are inked in this, to gain sympathy from people in coming election !

looks like a islamic state attack looking at modus of operandi

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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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