Ahmedabad, March 1 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has uncovered an alleged illegal breeding and sale racket of exotic animals and birds operating from a residential flat in the Navrangpura area of the city, officials said on Sunday.Acting on specific intelligence, officers raided a flat at Ravalbhai Apartment, where they found a large number of foreign species being kept and bred inside cages within the residential premises.Officials said several of the species are rare and fetch high prices …
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Ahmedabad, Jan 15 (IANS) Gujarat is set to significantly strengthen its biosecurity infrastructure with the construction of its first Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory, a high-security facility designed to handle the world’s most dangerous and highly infectious pathogens. The advanced biocontainment complex will aid in the development of vaccines, rapid diagnostics and critical research against life-threatening viruses for which no cure or treatment currently exists.The move comes in the wake…
Gandhinagar, Jan 13 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Tuesday, laid the foundation stone for Gujarat’s first ultra-modern Bio-Safety Level-4 (BSL-4) bio-containment laboratory and an Animal Bio-Safety facility in Gandhinagar, his parliamentary constituency. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and State Science and Technology Minister Arjun Modhwadia were present at the ceremony.The project, to be built at a cost of Rs 362 crore, will become the country’s first BSL-4 lab operated by a state gov…