Six BJP activists detained for allegedly installing ‘Join ISIS’ banner to disrupt peace

coastaldigest.com web desk

May 10, 2018

Newsroom, May 10: The police in Assam have taken six workers of Bharatiya Janata Party into custody in connection with the discovery of a pro-ISIS banner in the Nalbari district of the northeast Indian state.

ISIS, a dreaded terror outfit which has its network across the world, normally carries out attacks in Muslim dominant countries to destabilise the region in the name of Islam. Islamic scholars around the world have declared ISIS as an anti-Islamic terror outfit which intends to defame Islam and Muslims.

According to local media reports, Belsore police, acting on a tip off, detained six men for allegedly putting up the banner apparently to disrupt pace in the area.

On May 2 a few pro-ISIS were found in Assam’s Goalpara district. On May 3, local residents at Koihata area of Nalbari district found black banner with the message “Join the ISIS” stuck to a tree in a paddy field. The worried villagers immediately informed the nearby Belsore police, who rushed to the spot and removed the banner.

On May 7, the police managed to catch six persons in connection with the May 3 incident. The detained men have been identified as Tapan Barman from Kaihati, Dwipjyoti Thakuria, Sorojjyoti Baishya and Pulak Barman from Belsore, Mojamil Ali from Chamata and Moon Ali from Baruakur, all of them are either members are supporters of BJP. Among them Barman was a former Congress councillor who shifted to the BJP and is presently a member of its district committee.

Interestingly, the pro-ISIS banners were found just days ahead of the visit of the 16-member joint parliamentary committee headed by BJP MP Rajendra Agarwal set up to hear representations regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. The BJP government at the Centre had introduced the Bill in the Lok Sabha in 2016 to enable citizenship to Hindu Bangladeshis, among others, on the basis of religion. The visiting members of the committee have received over 400 representations both for and against the Bill from May 7 to May 9.

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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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