Lumpy skin disease: The disease infects cows and buffaloes mainly through vectors like blood-feeding insects. It leads to the formation of nodes on the animal's skin or hide that look like lumps, fever, runny nose, reduced milk yield and difficulty in eating.
Lumpy skin disease: The chief minister said he recently met Animal Husbandry Minister Parshottam Rupala at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi and discussed the steps needed to contain the spread of the disease.
Lumpy skin disease news: The veterinarian officers have been instructed to prioritize the most adversely affected districts with immediate effect. Orders have also been provided to deputy directors of the Animal Husbandry Department to intensify field visits.
Gujarat news: The affected districts include Kutch, Jamnagar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Rajkot, Porbandar, Morbi, Surendranagar, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Botad, Junagadh
Gujarat: The diseased animals in the affected villages were immediately isolated. So far more than 2.68 lakh animals have been vaccinated.
Police also rescued 102 cattle heads and seized seven vehicles in Nagaon.
Based on secret information, a team of Biswanath police station had intercepted a truck bearing Assam's registration from the Biswanath area.
The accused have told the police that the horns and bones of cattle were mixed with cattle fodder after being powdered.
On a tip-off, police intercepted truck which was on its way to WB from UP at Udaygarh Mong on National Highway 98 and rescued 18 buffaloes, one cow and one bull, Chhatarpur police station in-charge Shekhar Kumar said on Thursday.
Police have rescued 25 cattle that were found locked inside a room at Nalasopara in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.
Police have arrested 10 people for allegedly killing a cow vigilante after he was crushed to death by a tempo illegally transporting cattle in Gujarat's Valsad district, officials said.
Raising slogans against the state government, the locals alleged that 'officials did not understand our plight.'
The Madhya Pradesh government started 'Pashu Dhan Bima Yojana' offering insurance cover to the indigenous cattle owned by farmers.
Dikshant Parade was conducted on September 4 at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad.
Haryana government's Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying is undertaking the registration work of cattle.
One more leopard was captured by the forest department officials in Guwahati. The officials of forest department captured the leopard with the help of locals.
The cattle died after eating the fodder on Monday evening, they said. A medical team has been dispatched to the village for ascertaining the incident
Lobo, who is a BJP MLA from Calangute Assembly constituency, also said that 76 stray cattle from Calangute village, impounded and relocated to a gaushala, were refusing to eat vegetarian food and that specialist veterinarians had been roped in to wean them of their meat fetish.
Even as the controversy over the deaths of cows in shelters in Uttar Pradesh rages on, BJP MLA from Barabanki Ajay Singh said that the cows had died natural deaths.
Over 100 villagers tied 25 people with a rope and paraded them through a two-km stretch to a police station in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday for allegedly transporting cows to Maharashtra, police said.
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