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The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying on Tuesday (January 12, 2021) informed that more cases of Avian Influenza (H5N8) have been confirmed in the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. According to the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, additional cases of Avian Influenza have been confirmed in HCL-Khetri Nagar in Jhunjhunu district of...

The first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines is reached Lucknow airport on Tuesday evening, an official said. For the vaccination drive to begin on January 16, the first consignment of vaccines is arriving in Lucknow this evening, Additional Chief Secretary Health Amit Mohan Prasad said. The vaccines will be arriving in cold storages in eight other places in the state soon...

Vaccines for coronavirus could be made available to "our countrymen" as early as the "next few days", Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said today. The government has, meanwhile, ensured that every detail of the vaccination programme is conveyed to the people, from the national level to the grassroots level, he has said. The first to be inoculated will be...

Indian motorcycle racer C. S. Santhosh suffered a crash during the ongoing Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia and was put in a medically induced coma after being airlifted to a hospital in Riyadh. The 37-year-old, who was representing Hero Moto Sports at the world’s biggest rally race, crashed on Wednesday and is being kept under observation for 24 hours. Santhosh,...

Uttar Pradesh has been put on high alert amid reports of bird flu and districts have been given strict instructions to start culling infected birds even if a single case is reported. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued directions to the animal husbandry department to formulate a plan of action for controlling the spread of the disease, especially as neighboring states like Madhya Pradesh and Haryana,...

U.S. didn’t import any Saudi crude last week for the first time in 35 years, a reversal from just months ago when the Kingdom threatened to upend the American energy industry by unleashing a tsunami of exports into a market decimated by the pandemic. The absence of deliveries follows a slump in crude shipments to the U.S. that left the...

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea would need to shell out nearly Rs 50,000 crore combined to renew their expiring spectrum permits in the upcoming spectrum auction beginning March 1, say analysts. However, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are unlikely to renew most of their airwaves, given their surplus holdings. The upcoming auction between three Telco's is expected to be tepid as analysts say it is a...

An estimated 349,681 pregnancy losses per year in South Asia were associated with exposure to PM2.5 concentrations that exceeded India’s air quality level (more than 40 μg/m3), accounting for 7% of annual pregnancy losses in the region from 2000 to 2016, according to the report. Poor air quality is correlated with a large proportion of pregnancy losses in India, Pakistan,...

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath's government will launch an initiative named ‘Kisan Kalyan Mission’ in order to double the income of the farmers of the state. All the assembly constituencies of the state will be covered in this program. While Kisan Kalyan Yojana will be launched by the UP government, several state government departments such as Horticulture, Mandi Parishad, animal...

A horrific case of alleged gang rape and brutality similar to the ‘Nirbhaya’ case of Delhi was reported from Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh where a middle-aged woman was gang-raped and then killed. The incident has been reported from a village in the Ughaiti police station area in Badaun district where a woman from the village went to a temple...