Fresh threat to Indian vultures from cattle medicine

Last Updated: Friday, August 24, 2012, 13:18

The critically endangered Indian vulture, nature`s scavenger, faces another potential danger from the mass-produced veterinary painkiller aceclofenac administered to cattle.

UN body sets residue limits on vet drug

Last Updated: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 17:13

The United Nations food standards body has agreed on a set of residue limits for the veterinary drug ractopamine.

Animal welfare board steps in to end castration

Last Updated: Monday, May 28, 2012, 12:13

The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has written to the Veterinary Council of India seeking to make sedation of cattle mandatory during the process.

18th-century bone telescopes discovered

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 17:10

Ranging in length from roughly three to five inches, the telescopes -- discovered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands – were made using cattle metatarsal bone.

New norms now for stray cattle auction: MCD to HC

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 16:12

City civic body MCD told the Delhi HC that it has framed a set of new norms to ensure that stray cattle, caught by it, are auctioned only after giving sufficient time and opportunity to their owners to reclaim and relocate them.

South Sudan: 125 killed in cattle raid

Last Updated: Sunday, August 21, 2011, 18:30

The tribesmen stole 2,000 cattle in the country`s east in the cattle raid.

HKB launches Hariyali cattle feed in J&K

Last Updated: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 18:14

India`s largest rural retail chain for cattle feed Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar (HKB) launched its products in Jammu on Sunday to cater to demand in rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir.

US cattle inspectors leave Mexico amid drug war

Last Updated: Monday, May 16, 2011, 14:21

Wearing a grey-felt cowboy hat, long-sleeve ivory-colored shirt and freshly laundered jeans, Dr. Arnoldo Gutierrez begins his daily rounds by walking into a dusty pen baking in the South Texas heat.

BJP seeks to drum up support for anti-cattle slaughter bill

Last Updated: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 22:20

The BJP government in Karnataka on Sunday decided to stage a state-wide agitation from September 1 demanding that President Prathibha Patil approves the anti-cattle slaughter Bill.

Authorities put Rs.8,000 fine for stray cattle in Gurgaon

Last Updated: Friday, August 13, 2010, 14:39

Stray cattle are clearly not helping Gurgaon, a satellite town of the national capital, to project itself as a Millennium City.

TANUVAS to use cloning to revive nearly extinct cattle species

Last Updated: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 13:39

TANUVAS is all set to produce cloned varieties of endangered species using nuclear transfer technology by next year.

Scientists in aurochs genome sequence first

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 16:39

Cattle today are believed to be descended in most cases from Near East animals.Scientists have analyzed the DNA of ancient giant European wild cattle that died out almost 400 years ago.