AGARTALA, March 6

The bird flu scare has again come back to hit the sale of chicken and eggs in East Godavari district.

Namakkal: For the first time, a team of 13 persons from eight African countries came to India for a two-week international training programme on small hold livestock and commercial poultry farming that concluded on Sunday.

Assistant Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Dr. V.

Bird flu has struck the country again. This time at the State Duck Breeding Farm in Agartala that has been ordered to cull all poultry within a radius of three kilometres of the farm.

Barely eight months after India declared itself free from avian influenza (bird flu) in June 2010, this fatal and highly contagious disease has resurfaced in Tripura.

Samples of sick poultry birds from the government duck farm at R K Nagar in Agartala were yesterday found to contain H5 strain of avian influenza virus.

Consequently, the department of animal husbandry formally notified the re-

The Department of Environment yesterday sealed three factories at the city's Hazaribagh and arrested its owners for using toxic tannery-waste in poultry and fish feeds.

A DoE team, in a surprise raid at MK Enterprise, Zeko Fine Leather and Amir Multi Food, found workers filling sacks with dried up tannery waste, said Monir Chowdhury, director (monitoring and enforcement) of the department.

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