Mangaluru: Isaac Vas elected president of KCCI

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September 27, 2019

Mangaluru, Sept 27: Entrepreneur Isaac Vas has been elected as the President of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at its 79th annual general meeting held on 25th September 2019.

KCCI was founded in the year 1940. The newly elected Board of KCCI for 2019-20 includes Shashidhar Pai Maroor as Vice-President, Nissar Fakeer Mohammed and Divakar Pai Kochikar as the Secretaries, M. Ganesh Kamath as Treasurer, Nitte Yathiraj Shetty, B.A. Nazeer, Ananthesh V. Prabhu, Amith Ramachandra Acharya, Aditya Padmanabha Pai, Abdur Rahman Musba, P. B. Ahmed Mudassar and Ms. Athmika Subbiah / Amin as Directors.

Isaac Vas is the Managing Director of Merger Beverages P.Ltd., makers of Merger Soda. The company owns the only fully automatic PET and Glass bottling line of the district.He also manages one of the largest outdoor advertisement providersin the city - Jyothi Advertisers, which has some of the leading brands as its clients.

His business has expanded into other areas and today they are Stockists for SERVO industrial lubricants for Indian Oil for 7 districts of Karnataka. Exclusive concessionaire for development of Panambur beach and Kapu Beach for Tourism by the Government of Karnataka. The life guards of Panambur Beach have saved over 200 lives at the beaches on our coast.

Isaac Vas has served as the Secretary of the Kanara Small Industries Association Baikampady, Honorary Secretary of Mangalore Club and the Assistant Governor for Rotary International. Having worked with Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers for 12 years he has a strong corporate exposure to his credit.

He emphasize that Focus on Tourism, IT, Startup, Making KCCI as recognized center for alternate dispute redressal and encouraging Women Entrepreneurs would be the thrust areas of the Chamber in his acceptance speech.

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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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