Cattle smuggling racket busted in Odisha, three arrested
Police in Odisha’s Malkangiri district police on Tuesday rescued 31 cattle which were being illegally transported to slaughterhouses in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
A giant fish, said to be a Blue Whale, has washed ashore off Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district.
The dead fish washed ashore at Meghavaram beach in Santhabommali mandal.
Local fishermen say this is a rare fish in these seas. They suspect that it
died after entering shallow water.
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The fish is about 25 feet long and weighs five tonnes. The Blue Whale is
said to be the biggest animal on earth.
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Large number of people from nearby villagers gathered to see the fish.
Curious onlookers were seen taking selfies.
In 2021, some fishermen had rescued a shark entangled in the shore fishing
net on Tantadi beach in Visakhapatnam.
According to officials, it was a whale shark. It was later guided back to the
sea by the forest department officials, fishermen and wildlife conservationists.
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