An official showing Animal Health Cards being issued with an aim to control spread of animal diseases, identify and trace animal with unique identification number, upgrade informat...
UP CM Yogi Adityanath with cows during the Guru Puranima festival at Gorakhnath temple, in Gorakhpur.
Cows are photographed in an improvised studio during the German Holstein Show 2017 at the EWE-Arena in Oldenburg, Germany.
Jitender (centre) explains his plight
A trader awaits buyers for his buffalo and calf
Salim prepares to take his buy, two buffaloes, to Meerut city
Hakim, a bishti, splashes water to keep cattle cool at Rs 10 per cow/buffalo.
Receipt for animals brought and sold in Salahpur mandi.
Members of various organisations including some political outfits stage a demonstration in front of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras condemning the attack on a student for co...
A student of IIT-Madras was allegedly beaten up by a gang of students in Chennai. A section of students from IIT-Madras held a beef festival on the campus to protest the ban on Sun...
A stray cow walks past a bus stop in Allahabad. A new ban imposed by government on the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter to protect animals considered holy by many Hindus is...
A cow walks on a road in Allahabad. A new ban imposed by government on the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter to protect animals considered holy by many Hindus is drawing wid...
Stray cows rest on a road in Allahabad. As per the new rules, which took effect Friday, require that cattle traders pledge that any cows or buffalos sold are not intended for slaug...
A stray cow lies on a road in Allahabad. A new ban imposed by government on the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter to protect animals considered holy by many Hindus is drawin...
Butchers sit idle inside a meat shop in Allahabad. A new ban imposed by government on the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter to protect animals considered holy by many Hindus...
Members of Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnettra Kalagham (TMMK) shout slogans during a protest against Union Government for banning cow slaughter and restrictions on sale of cattle, in Coim...
Cows seized by Bajrang Dal activists from being allegedly illegal transporters at Sonapur on the outskirts of Guwahati.
PETA India and JD Institute of Fashion Technology Students dressed in “bloody” body suits and holding signs reading, “Cows Suffer for Leather: Wear Vegan,” during a demonst...
PETA India and JD Institute of Fashion Technology Students dressed in “bloody” body suits and holding signs reading, “Cows Suffer for Leather: Wear Vegan,” during a demonst...
A mob allegedly attacked 12 members of a cow protection group in Shrigonda city near here after police intercepted a tempo
A 23-year-old man was arrested for allegedly having sex with a cow at Pauri district's Satpuli town where tension prevaile
RSS leader Indresh Kumar on Wednesday termed cow meat as poison and claimed that its urine can treat diseases like cancer
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, has received 50 proposals from different academic and research institutes
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has said calling cows “Gau Mata” was not enough, “we must see ho
The Rajasthan government has earned Rs 151.50 crore from the 10 per cent surcharge levied on stamp duty for cow conservati
A mob today set ablaze a truck after it overturned on the National Highway here, alleging that it was carrying beef, polic
A mob today set ablaze a truck after it overturned on the National Highway here, alleging that it was carrying beef, polic
Former Goa Chief Minister and Congress MLA Pratapsinh Rane today urged the state BJP legislators to adopt 15 cows each so
The Supreme Court on Friday is set to hear a petition seeking ban on cow vigilante groups across the nation.
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Had meant to link it last week, but somehow forgot. The Economist on how the recent intervention by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is proof for many Indians that:
BJP is enslaved to bare-legged zealots obsessed with the idea that Hindu India is under attack: from Muslims, Chinese communists and American capitalists abroad and Muslims, Maoists and industrial developers at home...
It goes on to wonder whether the BJP can become a mellower yellow:
...The problem is the ideology and attendant nuttiness: Islamophobia, callisthenics, shorts and all. To lead its coalition government, the BJP had actually to forswear core Hindutva demands: for a new temple on the site of a demolished mosque at Ayodhya; for a federal ban on cow-slaughter; and for an end to Muslims’ enjoyment of their own family law.
This alienated party activists, who questioned the point of an ideology that has to be abandoned when it wins power. But to rule again, the BJP may have to distance itself even further from the RSS and find a more clubable leader.
Read the full piece: Shorts and all
