Top Kerala news developments for today
The Hindu
Here are the important news developments from Kerala on February 12, 2022
Top news developments from Kerala to watch out for today.
ISRO's first mission of the year, PSLV C52/EOS 4, is scheduled for launch on Monday. The launch is a big moment for the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Thiruvananthapuram. The spacecraft is part of a constellation of earth and space weather satellites planned under the INSPIRE programme. The students had fabricated the satellite last year. However, the pandemic had delayed the launch.
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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.