Private city buses to ply from July 1 in Mangaluru, Udupi
The Hindu
Operators to collect enhanced fares of 25% to make up loss from social distancing, diesel price hike
Private city buses, the lifeline of the twin districts, will resume services in a scaled manner from July 1 and charge 25% enhanced fare to make up for social distancing norms and increased diesel price. In a meeting called by Udupi Deputy Commissioner G. Jagadeesha on Friday, the operators led by Udupi Private City Bus Owners Association President Kuyilady Suresh Nayak, agreed to resume services provided they were allowed to charge 25% more. The operators said the fares may be reduced once the normalcy in occupancy was restored and diesel price comes down.![](/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.