Icius Tukarami and slain policeman Tukaram Omble.
In July last year, 34-year-old reptile photographer Somnath Kumbhar saw a spider with a black body, just over 3 mm long, and lighter legs sitting on a leaf of the jasmine plant on the windowsill of his home in Maharasthra’s Thane district. Kumbhar, who had been shooting spiders for over eight years, immediately noticed that this insect looked different from the ones he had previously seen.
He reached out to his friend, naturalist Dhruv Prajapati, who is a research fellow at an environment research institution in Gujarat. Prajapti is working on his PhD dissertation on the spiders of South Gujarat. Prajapati noted that he was unable to identity the spider species from the photos he had been sent, so asked Kumbhar to collect a speciment.
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Whatever the circumstances, the crime against women continues to rise, alarmingly. With new cases being reported on each passing day, the death under ‘mysterious’ conditions later turns out to be murder. One such gruesome incident was reported from Rajouri. Initially termed as death under ‘mysterious conditions’ on November 16, 2020, later police found out Rupakshi Sharma was murdered by her husband, Shanker Sharma. Taking cognizance of the incident, police started inquest proceedings under 174 CrPC and arrested her husband. Soon after the post mortem of the body was conducted which has proved the fact that her death was a murder. An FIR 10/2021 under section 302 IPC has been registered in Sunderbani police station. Police after two months have arrested Shanker, formally.
Interested In Nature And In Love With Insects, Kashmiri Student Receives Young Naturalist Award
Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Fascinated by the world of insects, a little boy was always wondering about the way these small creatures lived. Critical to the existence of the world, he was curious to know more about their life. The way they communicate, fly and sleep. In his growing years, he used to grab magnifying glasses to follow them everywhere. Curiosity continued.
Suhaib Firdous Yatoo
As he proceeded in his academics, he tried to seek answers from books, within his syllabus and outside. Somewhere, he found a glimpse of his answers in his high school textbook chapter titled, Pappachi’s Moth written by Arundhati Roy in her Booker prize winner book, The God of Small Things.
Blazing the trail for young women in an unlikely field
25 Jan 2021 - 10:27
Aishwarya Sridhar, a wildlife photographer, poses with her camera.
By Ayeni Olusegun | The Peninsula
Doha: In October last year, ‘Lights of Passion’ earned 24-year-old Aishwarya Sridhar the ‘Highly Commended Award’ in Behaviour of Invertebrate Category at the 56th Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 organised by the Natural History Museum in London.
In an email interview with
The Peninsula, Aishwarya said winning the prestigious award and being the first Indian woman to win was a humbling experience.
“It feels surreal. I have always dreamt of having my image on display at the Natural History Museum in London but never really thought it would become a reality. I was overwhelmed and humbled to know that my image had made it to the Top 100 awarded images this year,” the Panvel resident said.