Official conducts speed trial on Madurai-Manamadurai line
The Hindu
Commissioner of Railway Safety, Bengaluru, Abhay Kumar Rai, inspected the electrified railway line between Madurai and Manamadurai on Sunday. Along with Chief Project Director of Railway Electrificati
Commissioner of Railway Safety, Bengaluru, Abhay Kumar Rai, inspected the electrified railway line between Madurai and Manamadurai on Sunday.
Along with Chief Project Director of Railway Electrification Sameer Dighe; Principal Chief Electrical Engineer of Southern Railway R. K. Mehta; and Additional Divisional Railway Manager T. Ramesh Babu, he conducted inspection of the electrified line at various stations, bridges and rail overbridges.
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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.