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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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Opener Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb and Nic Maddinson will all play their first Tests at Adelaide Oval after selectors wielded the axe following the Hobart humiliation, which gave South Africa an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
Chicken and other varieties of poultry birds fall in the 'animal' category under the Food Safety and Standards Act, the Gujarat government told the high court on Friday.
The particular jersey worn by Jordan in the semi-final round against Lithuania was included in an auction featuring signed jerseys from all 12 members of the team.
Australia's Pune Test hero Steve O'Keefe in all likelihood will be dropped from the Playing XI at expense of pacer Jackson Bird for the fourth Test match against India, starting Saturday.
India could adopt the Brazilian model while formulating steps to check spread of bird flu to other parts of the country, according to poultry and veterinary scientists.
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In the viral video, the man, brandishing a stick, is seen sitting and talking to several workers locked up in a bird cage.
Antibodies against the bird flu virus H5N1, derived from horses, prevent mice infected with the virus from dying.
The United States army has developed a realistic robot bird that has even tricked real flocks and hawks to attack it midair, making it a potential unsuspecting future war agent.
Just a week after Jagat Desai proposed to Amala Paul on her 32nd birthday in Goa, the couple tied the knot on Sunday, November 5, in an intimate wedding ceremony at the Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty in Kochi.
Most human cases have been traced to contact with sick poultry, but experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible among humans, sparking a global pandemic.
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Extinction of one in eight of birds would mean 1,211 species wiped off the face of earth, says a report of the Birdlife International.
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The cricket fraternity in India expressed shock over the omission of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Don Bradman in the all-time Test eleven named by former English umpire Dickie Bird. Some former cricketers have called his composition "biased" and "ill-balanced".
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Free Birds has a couple of laughs and if you don't think too much, you might not even find it predictable, writes Paloma Sharma.
T20 could kill county cricket Former Test umpire Dickie Bird fears the shortest version of the game may end up killing county cricket in England. 'We can't lose county cricket because that's where our next generation of Test cricketers will come from,' he said.
"There is enough time, and required mandatory time for the circulation of agenda will be followed", the Parliamentary Affairs Minister said.
Ducks, rice and human beings -- and not chickens are the "most significant factors" behind persistent outbreaks of bird flu, a new study has claimed. The study released by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found ducks, rice and people not chickens to be the "most significant factors" in the spread of the bird flue in Thailand and Vietnam.
The passengers were transferred to another Boeing 747 in Mumbai for their onward journey
Some 5,500 birds had died in the farm, following which samples were sent for tests at a laboratory in Islamabad. The tests confirmed the presence of bird flu, officials said.
The veterinary department has prepared an action plan and procured necessary equipment and medicines to detect, prevent and tackle any outbreak of the deadly disease. The department has also constituted over 700 rapid response teams to monitor and tackle any eventuality, and surveillance was monitored on a daily basis.
The death of thousands of homebred chickens in Birbhum region over the past week has prompted district authorities to sound a bird flu alert in two blocks.
Around 35,000 to 40,000 chickens have died in Birbhum district alone.
Coming to the rescue of the critically endangered great Indian bustard (GIB), the Supreme Court on Wednesday mooted the idea of launching 'Project GIB' on the lines of 'Project Tiger', which was started in 1973 to save the big cats, and sought the government's view on the proposal.
Eggs are being sold at Re one apiece against Rs 1.75 before the scare while a broiler chicken is available for Rs eight against Rs 35 earlier.
'No one in the history of the sport has ever come back from that kind of accident and got hundreds against England and Australia.'
Usain Bolt returns to the scene of his Olympic 100m triumph on Monday in the opening heats of the men's 200 meters in another full day of track and field action.
The confirmation came following a report from a laboratory in Bhopal, which revealed that the samples that had been referred to it contained the virus.
An alert has been sounded in Manipur in the wake of out break of bird flu (avian influenza) in a small poultry farm in the Imphal east district of the state.
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If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair.
The bird was caught on Wednesday, and it was fitted with devices which appear to be a camera and a microchip, officials said.
Mexico's World Cup squad endured a three-hour delay in Germany after a bird crashed into the windscreen of the plane due to take them to London for a World Cup warm-up match against England.
Over 200 migratory birds were found dead in a lake at Gandheli in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, official sources said in Aurangabad Friday.
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