According to a health department source in Imphal, so far close to 10,500 people were scanned by medical teams from over 1,700 households.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party has done 'grave injustice' to the youth of the country, including in Haryana, by snatching employment opportunities and forced them to undertake a 'journey of torture' to foreign countries.
The United Arab Emirates has enforced a temporary ban on imports of all kinds of birds from India after bird flu was detected there.
India men dropped their first point, but carried enough steam to beat Hungary to maintain a clean slate in the ongoing 45th Chess Olympiad.
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Contamination of a portion of Chilika lake around Nalabana Birds Sanctuary in Orissa has resulted in the deaths of over 1,700 migratory birds within a span of 45 days, a senior official said, and ruled out bird flu as the cause of birds' death.
A United Kingdom auction house has withdrawn a 'Naga Human Skull' from its lots for a live online sale on Wednesday following outcry in India over the issue.
While 9 lakh birds were officially claimed to have been culled, the cullers could actually account for only 2.9 lakh birds.
Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi scored his fourth victory on the trot and gave India an early lead in the match against Serbia in the fourth round of the ongoing 45th Chess Olympiad.
out of the total 26 samples of dead chickens sent for testing, four had tested positive.
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Pace bowler Jackson Bird has been recalled by Australia for the first Test against New Zealand after James Pattinson was deemed not quite ready to stand up to the rigours of a full workload, captain Steve Smith said on Thursday.
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Over 2.6 lakh fowls have been culled in Assam so far where flu bird has reached an alarming proportion affecting nine districts till date. The state veterinary and animal husbandry department have engaged over 400 rapid response teams in the on-going culling operation.
Australia fast bowler Jackson Bird is returning home for treatment on a lower back injury, Cricket Australia said on Thursday.
Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters captures base jumpers as they leap off the 300 metre high open deck at the Kuala Lumpur Tower during the annual KL Tower International Jump Malaysia 2023.
The Meghalaya administration on Thursday began culling of chickens in and around a government-run farm in East Garo Hills district following reports of Bird flu there, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said.
Some cases of bird flu have been detected in four villages of Jalgaon district in Maharashtra, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar told the Lok Sabha Tuesday.
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Around 2 lakh ducks will be killed in the Kuttanad area.
The bird flu virus was detected in blood samples of dead birds, from Nadilag village of Bishalgarh subdivision, at the High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory in Bhopal on Wednesday. A red alert has been sounded and import of poultry and eggs from outside the state, including neighbouring Bangladesh, has been banned. Personnel of the Border Security Force and special surveillance teams were keeping vigil in the border areas.
Delhi Metro on Thursday said it has withdrawn a poster on breast cancer awareness that asked women 'to check your oranges' but the questions remained -- does the metaphor obscure the message, does it help women in a cloistered society get comfortable or more awkward by sexualising a body part.
'The shot will create a lot of problems. How do you deal with lbws and wides? Do you treat the batsman as right-hander or a left-hander?' the legendary umpire was quoted as saying in the Daily Telegraph.
A bronze statue of English umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird will be unveiled in his Yorkshire home town of Barnsley this year with replicas in Melbourne and a site in India.
Samples from two more blocks of Nadia district, three blocks of Burdwan district and two blocks of Birbhum districts were confirmed to be positive for bird flu.
Though initially the ARD had set the target at 44,000, it scaled down the mark by almost half on Monday claiming there was no fowl in the privately-run poultries in the wake of culling operation in January when the district was first plagued by bird flu along with some other areas of West Bengal. The mopping operation began on Monday to locate if there was any bird left in the affected areas in Englishbazar, Old Malda town and adjoining Sahapur, and will conclude Tuesday.
Injured Australian speedster Jackson Bird has been ruled out of the remaining three Test matches against India due to a bone stress injury on his back sustained during the first warm-up game of the ongoing series.
The Centre on Tuesday allayed fears of bird flu spreading to human beings in West Bengal, saying the random testing of people in the affected areas has been carried out and all such samples have tested negative.
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Officials at the Marghazar Zoo have started screening, disinfection and isolation of birds for early detection of the disease.
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