Mangaluru: ISPRL reserve receives first crude parcel from Iran

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October 12, 2016

Mangaluru, Oct 12: The crude oil storage in the underground rock cavern of Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd. (ISPRL) for energy security began here on Wednesday.

The pumping of 0.26 million tonne (MMT) crude oil received from Iran for storing at the cavern at Permude village began from the Single Point Mooring Booster Pumping Station of the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) at Tannirbhavi on the premises of the New Mangalore Port.

Speaking to presspersons on the occasion Rajan K Pillai, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, ISPRL, said that the crude oil is being stored now for the testing purpose.

The cavern with two chambers has the capacity to store total 1.5 MMT of crude oil. Each chamber can store 0.75 MMT of crude oil.

He said that if each chamber was to be filled it required three parcels of crude oil of the quantity received on Wednesday.

The second parcel of the crude oil would arrive at the port on October 24 and the third one in the third week of November.

It required 40 hours to 44 hours to pump the crude oil received on Wednesday completely to the cavern. About 10,000 litres could be pumped per an hour.

H. Kumar, Managing Director, MRPL said that when the cavern would be full the storage would be enough to meet the exclusive requirement of the MRPL for 36 days.

Mr. Pillai said that another underground rock cavern being constructed at Padur in Udupi district would be completed by this year-end. It has the storing capacity of 2.5 MMT. This cavern is being inter-linked through an underground pipeline now with the one at Permude.

Another underground rock cavern at Visakhapatnam having a capacity to store 1.33 MMT of crude oil has already been commissioned, he said.

The three caverns together have a storage capacity of five MMT. This storage would be enough to meet the energy security of the country for 13 days during emergency.

“These strategic storages will be in addition to the existing storages of crude oil and petroleum products with the oil companies and would serve as a cushion during any external supply disruptions,” he said.

Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, Ganesh Karnik, MLC, B.A. Mohiuddin Bava, MLA, were present on the occasion.

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Why this pooja for Iran product a Muslim country and also they are beef eaters?

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Mangaluru NRI returning from Saudi Arabia arrested over Instagram post

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December 15,2025

Mangaluru police have arrested a 27-year-old NRI on his return from Saudi Arabia in connection with an Instagram post allegedly containing derogatory and provocative remarks about the Hindu religion, officials said on Monday.

The accused, Abdul Khader Nehad, a resident of Ulaibettu in Mangaluru, was working in Saudi Arabia when the post was uploaded, police said.

A suo motu case was registered at the Bajpe police station on October 11 after an allegedly offensive post circulated from the Instagram account ‘team_sdpi_2025’. Police said the content was flagged for being provocative and derogatory in nature.

During the investigation, technical analysis traced the Instagram post to Nehad, who was residing abroad at the time, a senior police officer said. Based on these findings, a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued against him.

On December 14, Nehad arrived from Saudi Arabia at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, where he was taken into custody on arrival. Police said further investigation is underway.

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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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