Two friends found dead in lodge in Sagar
The Hindu
They had lost their jobs during the COVID-19 lockdown
Two friends, residents of Bagalkot district, were found dead in a lodge in Sagar on September 26. Police suspect that Santhosh, 23, and Hanumantha, 28, of Banahatti, committed suicide.
Both were on a trip to Jog Falls, Sigandur and other places near Sagar. They had checked into the room on September 25 morning. They stepped out before returning to the room after lunch. After that, they did not come out.
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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.