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Avian influenza is a disease caused by the H5N1 virus amongst birds and poultry. It has claimed the life of many birds which had to be culled due to infection. The virus causing this disease in birds on mutation infects human and can prove to be fatal....
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If you happen to visit Rajasthan, the chances are that you may come across some odd-looking vehicles zooming past the roads, particularly in Daua and Bharatpur...
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Mr Ashish Ghosh is again set to keep the Indian Tricolour flying in the Olympic Fine Art ~ 2008 at Beijing.
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Those who have tried to venture into our government public libaries in tamilnadu will agree to me, when i say they are not so well kept.
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Chandigarh, the capital city of both Haryana and Punjab, is one of the most frequented places in India. This city prides in its number of sightseeing places, art and...
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Chandigarh, the beautiful city of India has developed an IT Park (Kishangarh IT) Park) to cater to the rising influx of IT companies in this quaint city....
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Every attempt is being made by the political parties belonging to left , right and centre to gain a political mileage from the current US-India nuclear deal by stirring...
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A child dies every two-minute in central Indian state – Madhya Pradesh. This figure is alarming and highest in India. But can’t we save them? YES. They can be...
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After a month of painstaking investigations in the Aarushi double murder case, the CBI appears to be veering around the view that the father of the teenage victim and...
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An Indian woman has become the world’s oldest mother after giving birth to twins - at the age of 70.
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Chandigarh is one of the most significant urban planning experiments of the 20th century. It is the only one of the numerous urban planning schemes of Le Corbusier, the...
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While coming home I observed gems of knowledge written on the back of vehicles especially auto-rickshaws and trucks. Some them very profound some trivial
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What is life? A question, which has compelled innumerous writers across the world to write books as huge as epics but still, the question remains unanswered, for...
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The Tibetan government-in-exile won’t hold any celebrations to mark the Dalai Lama’s birthday Sunday because of the ongoing suffering of the people of...
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I paid more for the same distance.
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I am going through the Arushi Talwaar murder case regularly. Everybody knows that Aarushi family (remaining) is suspect.
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The worn-out agitation mode of harthal in Kerala is fast becoming a problem for the civil society.A campaign against the menace is the urgent need of the hour.A...
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A new strain of West Nile virus is spreading better and earlier across the United States, and may thrive in hot American summers, researchers said on Thursday. The...
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The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has resurfaced in West Bengal, with the latest area to be infected being a small town, Sukna, in the tea-growing hill district of...
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American researchers have developed a new Bird Flu vaccine designed to last longer and which could offer more protection against the deadly strain of Avian influenza....
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outh Korea said on Thursday it had culled 3 million farmed birds and confirmed three more outbreaks of bird flu, as the country grapples with its worst avian influenza...
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Officials in the Indian state of Tripura have ordered the culling of about 40,000 birds after an outbreak of bird flu was confirmed.
They say the virulent H5N1 strain...
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The first case of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in Pakistan has been confirmed.
Tests carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that bird flu...
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Seoul, April 07: Health officials have confirmed the second outbreak in the past week of bird flu at poultry farms in South Korea, an official said on...
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Each new day is likely to enhance the inextricability of flu, as vaccines available to noose the deadly virus are fast loosing their potentials, claims the World Health...
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In India everyone knows about politics and everyone knows about the kind of politics Communist parties play in country. There are 59 members in 14th Lok Sabha who form...
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Following the worst possible Bird Flu outbreak, West Bengal has completely banned the trade and consumption of poultry to avoid further contamination. 3.4 million...
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If everything goes well, then days are not far away when the tool to fight Bird-flu would be there in experts’ hands. This hope sparked up after researchers at...
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It is official now…the deadly Bird Flu virus is found in some of the poultry farms in five of the eight suspected districts of West Bengal. Union Agriculture Minister...
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Indian health workers urged villagers at the center of a bird flu outbreak to stop dumping dead fowl in ponds on Friday, as ignorance about the virus hampers efforts to...
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The auspicious day of Christmas proved fatal for a 24-year-old woman from Jakarta, thanks to deadly bird flu that lulled her forever on this auspicious day after a long...
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According to NIAID 2001 (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) data, nearly 63,730 deaths occur every year in USA due to influenza and pneumonia. The...
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The risks of bird flu epidemic remain. Its transmission among humans is still being examined as a new transmission finding was alarming. Recently, a Chinese man had...
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It’s again the turn of thousands of turkeys, ducks and geese to fall victim to bird flu worriment. It’s all happening at a Redgrave Park Farm near Diss. After the...
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Bird flu is one of the modern threats to human kind. Recently, it was discovered that the bird flu can be a threat to unborn babies. The dreaded H5N1 can be passed on...
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This has been officially confirmed that the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus is back in Manipur. After detecting the virus in the sample sent by a poultry farm in a...
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