Alva’s Motorig 2017: Racing enthusiasts witness spectacular stunts

May 21, 2017

Moodbidri, May 21: Hip hip hurray… hip hip hurray… the cheering came louder and louder as the bikers enthralled the audiences with their stunt riding include wheelies, stoppies and burnouts.

The loveliest weather in Mijar, Shobhavana, on Sunday, made much of the racing enthusiasts to witness spectacular bike stunts, flips to leave them in memorization.

Alva’s Motorig 2017, shifting expectation, with its fourth edition, hosted by Alva’s Education Foundation and TASC, IMSC, Bedra Adventurous Club, Coastal Riders, KL14 and Team Bedra United, provided a solid flat form to display various automobiles in segments (Super bikes, Super cars luxury cars, Vintage collections and customized vehicles) and gist of motorsport drag and drift demos and customized sequential stunt performances performed by national drivers and riders.

There are over 100 top-end cars and two-wheelers, both vintage and new releases outshined the show. The top end bikes like Yamaha Midnight star, Suzuki Hayabusa, Harley Fatboy Terminator 2, Harley Fatboy Bobber, MV Augusta Brutale 800, Dacuti, Kawasaki ZX 10R, Kawasaki ZX 14R, Benelli Shotgun, Triumph Tiger, Yamaha R1, Yezadi were the special attraction in the show.

The auto ramp show by exotic and vintage beauty cars like BMW Z4, Audi R 8, Mercedes GL 350, Mercedes GLS, BMW 5 series, Audi A6, special antique attraction 1991 model Lincoln town car of Ford Company augmented the real fragrance to the event.

The event was inaugurated by Kishore Alva, Executive Director, Adani UPCL.

Indian rally champions from Mangaluru, Arjun Rao and Rahul Kanthraj performed rally sequence and stunts. Adnan and Sudeep Kotari, Indian motor rally super cross champions carried out super cross sequence and stunts. Hot pistons group from Udupi magnetized the onlookers with their freestyle stunts on two wheels.

Gaurav Khatri, National level freestyle motorsport rider from Jaipur, made the whole show to take next level. He carried out a freestyle jump with help of ramp covering distance of 75 feet over 5 buses standing between take off point to landing mark.

The aerial stunts and acrobatics by national freestyle motorsport rider spell bounded the audiences. After finishing the event, Gaurav Khatri cautioned the people saying ‘we all have right to play with our lives but not with others. Hence, everyone should take all the precautionary measures and proper training before venturing these stunts’.

Alvas Education Foundation Trustee Vivek Alva, Vishwas Bava Builders Proprietor Abulal Puthige, Bedra Adventurous Club President Akshay Jain, National Level motorsport rider Ashwin Naik, Mandavi Motors Manging Director Sanjay Rao, Entrepreneur Narayan PM, Chowtara Aramane Kuldeep Jain, Indian Institute of Science Scientist Harish Bhat, Alva’s Motorig Coordinator Muddukrishna Shetty, AIET Principal Peter Fernandes were present among others.

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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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