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District watch in pictures: JAMALPUR: Locals at Binondo para in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila formed a human chain protesting acid thrown on a housewife on Tuesday.

13 Nov 2014, 12:00 am0

JAMALPUR: Locals at Binondo para in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila formed a human chain protesting acid thrown on a housewife on Tuesday.

Two bird flu cases detected in country

Reuters :Bangladesh discovered two outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry last week, according to reports from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and a senior Bangladeshi health ministry official on Monday.A first case was found at a poultry farm in Dhamrai, just outside the capital, Dhaka. Out of 3,000 Sonali type poultry at risk from the outbreak, 732 died from the virus and the rest were slaughtered, according to the Paris-based OIE. The other...

25 Jan 2017, 12:00 am