Chief Minister Pawank Chamling, who has led the march towards prosperity since he took over on December 12, 1994, says the beautiful state of Sikkim will soon be a developed state on the basis of its natural and human resources.

Gangtok: The fear of spread of bird flu in different areas of Sikkim was allayed as the blood samples of chickens who had died recently at Maaling in North district tested negative in the Animal Disease Diagnostic laboratory in Bhopal, an animal husbandry department official said on Thursday.

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Health Ministry Rushes Team
Kounteya Sinha | TNN

New Delhi: The Union health ministry has rushed a three-member team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases to Sikkim after it became the third state in the country to report an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu this year.

West Bengal and Assam are already reeling under an outbreak.

GANGTOK, Jan 20

Gangtok, Jan. 19: Confirming outbreak of bird flu in Sikkim

The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is implementing a Centrally-sponsored Scheme on Technology Mission for integrated development of horticulture in North- eastern States (TMNE) including Sikkim since 200-02.