Ready to handle any responsibility in BJP, says Janardhan Reddy

May 22, 2017

Raichur, May 22: Expressing the desire to handle responsibility in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), mining baron and former Minister G. Janardhan Reddy has said that he was ready to accept any responsibility if the party gives it to him.

Otherwise, “I shall remain a common worker while strengthening the party for the next Assembly election in 2018,” he told presspersons in Raichur before leaving for Yadgir to participate in a religious programme.

Mr. Reddy, who visited the district after years, said that “I never said that I would not contest elections. But, the party has to take a decision on it.”

Asked about his friend B. Sriramulu’s statement on his (Mr. Reddy’s) future in politics, Mr. Reddy said that “I would have developed as a national-level industrialist if I had not joined politics, which victimised me. Therefore, he (Mr. Sriramulu) might have said that I should keep away from politics to avoid further victimisation.”

He said that he sought three weeks time from the Special Investigating Team (SIT) to provide documents to support the corruption charge levelled against the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.

Expressing the confidence that the BJP will win all the seven Assembly constituencies in Raichur district, Mr. Reddy said that “we will work for the party to achieve the targeted results here.”

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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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