West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh to observe strict surveillance

The Centre on Wednesday sounded ‘high alert’ in border States against avian influenza after outbreak of the dreaded poultry disease in Bhutan. Thousands of birds have been culled in Bhutan after the outbreak, which is yet to be controlled. Earlier this month, samples of affected birds were sent to India’s High Security Animal Disease Lab in Bhopal and they tested positive.

Some 3,500 chickens were slaughtered in four different poultry farms in Pokhara, Kaski, on Wednesday as bird flu (H5N1) virus was detected there.

India in a landmark move is planning to impose a blanket ban on testing cosmetics on animals.

The Awami National Party-led provincial government has completed development projects worth Rs229 million in livestock and dairy development sector during last four and a half years in Khyber Pakht

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won accolades from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for furthering the right-wing organisation’s cow protection agenda.

Hundreds of fowls that died in a Dharke-based a chicken firm over the past one week are learnt to have died due to bird flu outbreak.

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray’s death brought Mumbai to a standstill a couple of weeks ago.

The Punjab Government has formulated a policy to preserve, protect, strengthen and improve livestock by extending training facilities to farmers in piggery and production of improved exotic breed o

A spate of avian flu outbreaks in the last few years has dashed India’s hopes of becoming a major egg exporter.