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IPS officers Mohammad Mustafa and Siddharth Chattopadhyaya challenged Gupta’s appointment on the ground that they were “ignored” despite being senior to Gupta and having an outstanding service record. While Mustafa is a 1985-batch officer and Chattopadhyaya a 1986-batch officer, Gupta is a 1987-batch officer. Besides them, the other officers superseded were Hardeep Dhillon, Jasminder Singh and Samant Goel. … [Read more...] about Punjab govt, Dinkar Gupta move high court against CAT order

NEW DELHI: A myriad of new discoveries about birds were made in the year 2019 which unveiled the emerging struggles faced by our feathered friends in adapting to a warming world, while also shinning new light on the fields of behavioral science, genetics, and avionics. Revelations that bird species across the world are shrinking in size, and a major finding that the North American continent has lost a quarter of its avians in the last 50 years, were among some of the biggest ornithology discoveries made this year. "The missing of about three billion birds since 1970 indicates the massive decline of biodiversity all over the world," Asad Rahmani, former director of the Bombay Natural History Society told PTI. Amidst these worrying discoveries, there were also some bird studies that offered useful insights for novel bio-mimetic aviation technology that mimics the behaviour of the birds. Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania in the US developed an electronic circuit mimicking … [Read more...] about 2019: More bird mysteries unravelled as warming hit avian flight