Mangaluru, Dec 25: Enthusiasm is soaring high among everyone to witness the upcoming annular solar eclipse on 26 December. Expert Pre University College, Valachil is gearing up to set a new record as all 2300 students with their teachers will be viewing this rare and spectacular celestial phenomenon from the college’s hilltop campus.
An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon covers the Sun's center, leaving the Sun's visible outer edges to form a “ring of fire” or annulus around the Moon
The last annular solar eclipse visible from Mangalore was in 1748. The next annular solar eclipse visible from Mangalore will be in 2064.
Prof. Narendra L. Nayak, Chairman, Expert Group of Institutions, in a press release stated that it is for the first time that as many as 2300 students are going to watch the celestial event at a time in a single campus. He said that the students will be provided with safety eclipse goggles to view this rare phenomenon and it will help remove superstitions about eclipses from the minds of common people.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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