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...
Muslim children hold a gold metal cow and a placard with the message to 'Save Cow' at PM Narendra Modi's roadshow, in Surat.
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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A mentally challenged Muslim man was assualted at Dharjori in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district by people allegedly on suspicio
Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar today said the state-run abattoirs here produces around 2,000 kgs of beef per day
The ban on sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter was intended at the welfare of animals and tackli
The censor board has formally issued a notice to Suman Ghosh, the director of a documentary on Amartya Sen, saying the fil
Replying to question in Lok Sabha, the centre on Monday said that the union home ministry has asked state governments to c
The Uttar Pradesh government is mulling making sweets made of cow-milk available as 'prasad' at temples by Navratra, state
Three people were killed and as many injured when their car rammed into a divider while trying to save a cow on the Agra-L
Ten bovine animals, including seven cows, died after consuming plants that had been sprayed with pesticides in Rajasthan's
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
