Students witness police work from close range
The Hindu
Event held as part of Police Martyrs’ Week
A group of schoolchildren were thrilled to witness police work from up close, at an Open House organised by the Prakasam police department on Friday.
Several children got an opportunity to pose with unloaded firearms, with Superintendent of Police Malika Garg giving a detailed presentation on the various types of guns and weapons that form part of the police armoury. Ms. Garg also spoke about the significance of Police Martyrs’ Week — of which the event was a part of — being organised at the District Police Convention Hall.
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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.