Forest fire on Jnana Bharathi campus
The Hindu
A forest fire erupted at Bangalore University’s campus, Jnana Bharathi, and spread close to the administrative block on Friday morning.Fire and Emergency Services personnel said five fire tenders put
A forest fire erupted at Bangalore University’s campus, Jnana Bharathi, and spread close to the administrative block on Friday morning. Fire and Emergency Services personnel said five fire tenders put out the blaze. However, fire re-started on Friday night and a fire tender was rushed to the spot. It was still on the campus at the time of going to press.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.