In a bid to protect its cattle from the prevalent lumpy skin viral outbreak in the neighbouring states, the Uttar Pradesh government has directed the officials to check the transport of cattle and conduct vaccination of cows and buffaloes. Details here.

Thanks to the strong will of a bureaucrat and the villagers to provide green cover to a barren plot of land, around an acre of in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district has been modified into a ‘micro-forest’.

In the animal husbandry department, livestock extension officers are the second-biggest technical cadre after veterinary officer cadre. The employees’ associations have alleged that they are forced to do other official works due to which they are unable to attend to the animals