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Bird flu: FSSAI advises consumers not to eat undercooked chicken; says no need to panic

Delhi bans sale of poultry products as bird flu cases reported in UP

8:16 pm January 13, 2021

New Delhi: Fresh bird deaths and avian influenza cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, while in neighbouring Delhi, civic bodies banned the sale of poultry products, even as the city government asked people not to panic and eat completely cooked eggs and chicken. Unusual mortality among birds has also been reported in some districts of Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir, as per a […]

UP: Two cases of bird flu reported in Kanpur

7:40 pm January 13, 2021

Kanpur: Samples taken from two dead crows in Kanpur have tested positive for bird flu and with these, the number of confirmed cases of the influenza has increased to four in the city, officials said on Wednesday. Twenty samples were sent for testing and these included those taken from four dead crows, District Forest Officer Arvind Yadav said. Two of the […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

Cold wave, thick fog in parts of UP

7:27 pm January 12, 2021

Lucknow: Cold to severe cold conditions prevailed over parts of Uttar Pradesh with Kanpur being the coldest city in the state where the mercury dipped to 4.4 degrees Celsius, the meteorological department said. It said a dense fog to very dense fog enveloped isolated places in the state. State capital Lucknow recorded a minimum temperature […]

History-sheeter held in UP after brief encounter

UP STF busts ‘charas’ smuggling racket, arrests 7 people in Kanpur

8:28 pm December 28, 2020

Lucknow: Seven people, including three women, were arrested in Kanpur by a Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday for alleged involvement in an internatinal ‘charas’ smuggling racket, officials said. The STF of UP Police busted the racket with the arrest of seven people from Kanpur Dehat area, it said in a statement issued here. Thirty kilograms […]

Tigress brought from Kanpur released in Delhi zoo enclosure

11:11 pm December 27, 2020

New Delhi: A Bengal tigress was released in its enclosure at the Delhi zoo by Union minister Babul Supriyo on Sunday. The tigress, Barkha, was brought from the Kanpur zoo last month and has completed its quarantine period, Delhi zoo director Ramesh Pandey said. Now, the zoo has a pair of normal-coated Bengal tigers and […]