Fish and field expo attracts people at Pilikula
Mangaluru, July 15: A fish and field exhibition organized by the Dr Shivarama Karanth Pilikula Biological Park and the Fisheries department at the Lake Garden of the Park attracted thousands of people on Sunday.
MLA Umanath Kotian inaugurated the exhibition. The exhibition also provided platform for fish lovers to taste the farm and river fish. The fish caught in the Pilikula Lake Garden were sold to the fish lovers who purchased fresh fish with joy. Variety of fish like Katla, Mari Mugudu and others were sold at the exhibition. Some others caught the fish, prepared dishes and consumed there only. Decorative fish lungs also attracted the people in the exhibition today.
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Lok Sabha adjourned till 12 noon after obituary tributes
New Delhi (PTI): The Lok Sabha was adjourned till 12 noon on Monday after paying tributes to departed members of the House, including two MPs who won the parliamentary elections this year.
As soon as the House met on the first day of the Winter Session, Speaker Om Birla mentioned the deaths of Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan, who was elected to the House from Nanded constituency in Maharashtra and Sk Nurul Islam, who was elected from the Basirhat seat in West Bengal.
Birla also mentioned the deaths of three former members -- M. M. Lawrence (Kerala), M Parvathi (Andhra Pradesh) and Harischandra Devram Chavan (Maharashtra) -- and paid respects to them.
After the House remained silent for some time as a mark of respect to the departed leaders, the Speaker adjourned the House till 12 noon.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, DMK leader T R Baalu, and Congress' Gaurav Gogoi were among those present in the Lower House.
Ravindra Vasantrao Chavan, son of deceased MP Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan, got elected as MP from Nanded in the just concluded by-elections.
