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Detailed explanation-1: -"Under a project by National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal to work on cloning of indigenous cow breeds such as Gir and Sahiwal, India’s first cloned Gir female calf named ‘Ganga’ weighing 32 kg was born and is growing well, ‘’ the NDRI said in a release.

Detailed explanation-2: -The newborn cloned female calf of the cow has been named “Ganga”, which weighs 32kg and is growing well. The scientists used three animals for producing this calf of a cow. Oocyte was taken from the Sahiwal breed, somatic cell from the Gir breed and a surrogate animal was a cross breed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dolly (1996–2003), first cloned mammal from adult somatic cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -In February 2009, ICAR-NDRI had made history with Samrupa, the world’s first cloned riverine buffalo calf. Although Samrupa succumbed to a lung infection five days after birth, India has cloned 26 other animals since then.