Mangaluru: CM meets kin of police firing victims, asks DC to provide compensation

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December 21, 2019

Mangaluru, Dec 21: Two days after police firing claimed two lives in Mangaluru, Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa today met family members of the victims, and expressed condolences.

Victim Nausheer’s brother and other family members, another victim Abdul Jaleel’s wife, children and others were taken to Circuit House where CM were present.

Later speaking to media persons, Yediyurappa described Thursday’s events as the one that no one is happy with in the way it turned out. He also said that had directed the deputy commissioner Sindhu Rupesh to provide compensation to families of victims as per law.

He said that government would order investigation into the violence during the Citizenship Amendment Act protests.

He claimed that police were forced to use force to deter the surging crowds. “They tried to storm a police station,” he said.

Asserting that the mayhem that protesters could have caused had they managed to gain access to the armoury at the police station is there for all to fathom, the CM said his meeting with the families of victims was to gain a sense of problems they faced following the incident.

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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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