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India free from presence of locust swarms
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
During the routine survey conducted during the last fortnight of October by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, the country was found free from gregarious as well as solitary desert locust activities. Breeding of locusts too was not reported.
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2-month-old white tiger 'Singham', released in Maitri Bagh Zoo in Chhattis
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
According to an official, breeding among tigers were stopped for the last two years due to the prevailing COVID pandemic. A tiger and tigress were brought together a few months ago following which Singham was born in September.
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African swine fever cases confirmed in pig breeding centre in K'taka's Dak
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
According to the Deputy Commissioner who is also the chairman of the District Livestock Diseases Management Committee, a 1 km radius from this piggery centre has been declared as a diseased zone and a 10 km radius as an alert zone.
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Standing Committee of NBWL requests State govts to submit proposals for es
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI): The Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife on Thursday requested the State governments of Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra to submit proposals for the establishment of Conservation Breeding Centres for Great Indian Bustards in their respe
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Birdsong reveals rare hybrid coupling 10 million years in the making: Rese
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): A team of researchers was able to use a combination of genomic sequencing and song analysis to identify a rare hybrid bird, whose ancestors haven't shared the same breeding location or lineage for 10 million years.
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Researchers find domestication history of bananas that reveals mystery anc
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): People on the island of New Guinea are said to have cultivated bananas 7,000 years ago. However, the history of banana domestication is convoluted, and their categorization is widely discussed, as the borders between species and subspecies are sometimes amb
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Bengal Safari is planning to introduce captive breeding centre for fishing
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Siliguri (West-Bengal) [India], July 27 (ANI): The authorities of Bengal Safari, North Bengal Wild Animals Park are planning to introduce captive breeding programmes for fishing cats.
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Research finds molecules that boost plant immunity
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Cologne [Germany], July 10 (ANI): A new study by Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, has uncovered natural cellular components that activate crucial plant immune responses.
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Researchers discovers plant immunity-boosting molecules
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Cologne [Germany], July 8 (ANI): Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, in conjunction with colleagues in China, uncovered natural cellular components that trigger crucial plant immune responses.
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Reconstruction of Afghanistan: a geopolitical necessity?
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], July 1 (ANI): Prevalence of Jihad in Afghanistan is a Pakistan-bred concept that serves their political interest. While the world seemed to have checked out of Afghanistan, leading it to be a perfect breeding ground for terrorism, it's only going to come back to bite them i
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Prevent prisons from becoming breeding ground for anti-national activities
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has written to all the states and Union Territories as well as their prison authorities to take effective steps to prevent prisons from becoming breeding ground for anti-national activities.
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African Swine Fever: Tripura govt to order mass culling of pigs in Sepahij
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], April 21 (ANI): After African Swine Fever cases were reported in a breeding farm in Sepahijala district, the Tripura government on Wednesday decided to go in for mass culling of infected pigs at the farm.
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