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As many as 139 greater flamingos were electrocuted in the Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary ten days ago
Following the incident, reflectors and flags have been placed and guards deployed near the towers carrying high tension cables.
The flamingos, which were resting on the open space near the high tension cables on the road side might have got disturbed in the night due to some vehicular sound or other noise and tried to fly away and hit the high tension cables
The migratory birds from Siberia which arrive here in the winter rest in open space near their nesting site about 30 km from where the incident took place.
The ‘Flamingo City' is located in the Great Rann (desert) of Kutch where thousands of greater flamingos breed. They construct muddy nests, lay eggs and rear young ones.
The Kutch Sanctuary is the largest sanctuary encompassing a saline desert, and is the only place in the country where the greater flamingo breeds regularly.

The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the armed forces successfully test-fired an Agni-I missile from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast
The Agni-I, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is already in the Army's arsenal. The missile, with a range of 700 km, is Pakistan-specific. It covers the western range. It is powered by solid propellants.
The Agni-I, the Agni-II, the Agni-III and the Agni-IV form the quartet of Agni series, all of which can carry nuclear warheads. They are surface-to-surface missiles. These four and the Prithvi variants provide teeth to India's nuclear deterrence posture.
The flawless flights of the Shourya, the Prithvi-II and the Agni-II in the last week of September, and the Agni-IV on November 15 have buoyed the DRDO's mood.
The first flight of the Agni-I took place on January 25, 2002. It was developed quickly in about 15 months. Soon after the Kargil war broke out in June 1999 and in the wake of nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in May 1998, India felt that it should develop a short-range missile that would fill the gap between Prithvi-II, which has a range of 250 km and the Agni-II, which can take out places 2,500 km away. So the single-stage Agni-I was born out of the two-stage Agni-II.

East Godavari district has been identified as a potential site to generate energy from wind and solar power by the Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET), an autonomous research and development institution under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Non-conventional Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NEDCAP) has set up a wind monitoring station and solar radiation monitoring station in the district at a cost of Rs. 35 lakh.
Satellite technology has been used to identify locations to install the monitoring stations.
East Godavari is the only district in Andhra Pradesh where the systems to monitor both wind and solar energy are being installed
The government is encouraging the units by signing power purchase agreements and announcing attractive ‘buy back' policies.