Karnataka announces unlock 3.0; permits opening of malls, restaurants, religious places
The Hindu
However, public functions are banned, and schools and colleges will remain closed
Bengaluru The State government on Saturday announced unlock 3.0 and permitted opening of all shops, restaurants, malls, private offices, and religious places, including temples, till 9 p.m., in all districts, except Kodagu. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa chaired a high-level meeting with ministers and senior officials, and said night curfew would continue from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. till July 19. The weekend curfew has been removed.![](/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.