New Delhi: For more than a decade and a half, the country has been witnessing an outbreak of bird flu. In the year 2008, bird flu disease became a cause of loss for the poultry farmers of West Bengal. A large number of eggs, chicks, chickens and other poultry birds were destroyed due to the outbreak of bird flu in 13 districts of the state. The disease started from Birbhum district on January 16, 2008 and then almost half of the state was affected by this disease.
On January 27, information was officially given about the spread of this disease in 13 districts. Large-scale poultry activities in the state and moisture present in the atmosphere were cited as the reasons for the rapid spread of the disease. To prevent the spread of the disease from birds to humans, the government banned the transportation of poultry products out of the state. The serial details of other important events recorded on the date of January 27 in the history of the country and the world are as follows:-
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1944: Soviet forces ended their 872-day siege by driving German and Finnish armies out of St. Petersburg. 1959: The foundation stone of the first College of Engineering and Technology was laid in New Delhi.
1964: France recognized Communist China and agreed to establish diplomatic relations with it.
1967: Three astronauts on board the Apollo 1 were killed when a fire broke out in the space shuttle Apollo 1 at Cape Kennedy, Florida in the US.
1967: Representatives of 60 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed a United Nations treaty vowing peaceful uses of outer space and supporting a ban on weapons of mass destruction in space.
1969: Iraq publicly hanged 14 people on charges of espionage. Nine of them were Jews.
1974: The then President V.V. Giri dedicated the Nehru Memorial Museum at Teen Murti Bhawan to the nation.
1996: France conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. The power of this bomb can be gauged from the fact that two years later, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that the toxic effect of this explosion would remain for centuries at the test site in the South Pacific.
2006: As part of the worldwide campaign against tuberculosis announced at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the UK announced $79 million to control the disease in India.
200714 people, mostly police officers, killed in a fidayeen bomb attack ahead of a religious procession in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2008: Bird flu outbreak in 13 districts of West Bengal. Large numbers of eggs, chicks, chickens and other poultry birds were destroyed.
2013 – 20 police officers killed in bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (agency)