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Oil India Ltd cannot disown responsibility on fire incident in Assam s Baghjan oil well: NGT
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The order came on a plea filed by activist Bonani Kakkar and others alleging failure of the authorities in preventing the blowout of Baghjan oil well. Well number 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district, had been spewing gas uncontrollably, and it caught fire on June 9 last year, killing two of OIL s fire fighters at the site.
Oil India Ltd (OIL) cannot disown its responsibility on the fire incident in Assam s Baghjan oil well by shifting the blame on the contractor, the National Green Tribunal Friday said while constituting a fresh six-member committee to fix responsibility for the failures of the concerned individuals in the present incident. Well number 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district, had been spewing gas uncontrollably, and it caught fire on June 9 last year, killing two of OIL s fire fighters at the site.
Updated Feb 15, 2021 | 18:09 IST
The Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), often described as the most beautiful duck in the world , was first discovered and logged by Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The Mandarin Duck. (Image courtesy: Twitter @mpk visuals)
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The duck was introduced in the Far East but can still be found in China, Japan, Korea and even parts of Russia
These ducks are believed to extremely agile fliers, able to drift and manoeuvre through trees with great proficiency. They often take up perches in trees with the female seeks out a hole or cavity in a tree trunk in which to lay eggs
Model developed for precise count of leopard population
Scientists from Aaranyak, Panthera, and WWF-India have developed a model called ‘Spatial Mark-Resight’ (SMR) to precisely estimate the population size SPATIAL MARK-RESIGHT
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GUWAHATI: Scientists from Aaranyak, Panthera, and WWF-India have developed a model called Spatial Mark-Resight (SMR) to precisely estimate the population size of leopards where the population is a mix of the rosette (common) and melanistic (different) leopards. Like the tigers, the leopards can be also individually identified with the help of their unique shape and size of the rosettes that occur across their body coat. However like many other wildlife species, leopards also exhibit phenotypic polymorphism (body colour variation determined by gene). They either have rosettes individuals or melanistic or black individuals commonly called black
Like this content? Republish it! h2 Mandarin duck spoted near Assam's Dibru Saikhowa /h2 br p Probably, for the first time in recent history, a mandarin duck has been spoted near the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park in Assam. Eminent poet and novelist Dr. Neelakshi Chaliha Gogoi informed that the migratory bird has been sighted in the Maguri-Motapung beel situated near the park. “I think the bird has come here due to his mistake. It will attract bird and nature lovers. Now, I request all the concerned authorities to take care of the bird, ” she said. /p p According to experts mandarin ducks habitats in the Himalayas and North Africa. It is a beautiful coloured bird. /p