Month: January 2021

The first case of Avian Flu commonly known as Bird Flu has been reported in Poonch district after samples taken from a dead crow tested positive on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner Poonch, Rahul Yadav told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that samples of a dead crow, taken in Mandi tehsil area have been tested positive for Avian influenza. He, however, said that no sample of domestic poultry has been tested positive so far. DC Poonch further informed that in the backdrop of this first case of Avian influenza, samples of all the sale points and backyard poultry shall be taken within one kilometre area of Mandi. "Regular surveillance shall also be maintained by the Animal Husbandry Department in the area,” he said. Pertinent to mention here that many wild birds, especi...

Expressing grief over the death of two minor children belonging to the Bakerwal family due to cold, State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (M) Ghulam Nabi Malik on Tuesday urged the administration to provide relief and shelter to the nomadic families who are putting up in tents in the valley. In a statement here this afternoon Mr Malik urged the administration to provide ex gratia relief and shelter to the families of the deceased children, who died due to shelter in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district yesterday. The administration must provide shelter and ration to such nomadic families who are putting here and facing severe problems in winter due to extreme cold. There are reports that various nomadic families are putting up in the valley during the prevailing harsh winter wit...