ISKCON is selling all its cows to the butchers. No one else does this as much they do. And they go on and sing 'Hare Ram Hare Krishna' on the roads. Then they say their entire life is dependent on milk. Probably, no one has...
A single-judge bench of Justice Shamim Ahmed in Allahabad High Court observed that as per puranas, anyone who kills cows or allows others to kill them is deemed to rot in hell since the cow is the 'representative of...
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) had earlier appealed the public to mark Cow Hug Day on February 14 that coincides with the Valentine's Day.
After a landslide victory in the Karnataka polls, the Congress seems to be giving the BJP a taste of its own medicine. Practising what has been largely preached by BJP, the Congress said the Assembly had been 'polluted' by...
Uttar Pradesh minister Dharmpal Singh's comment comes days after the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) appealed to the public to celebrate February 14 as the Cow Hug Day. The appeal was later withdrawn.
In an earlier notification on Monday, the AWBI issued an appeal to the public to hug cows on Valentine's Day on February 14. The AWBI in a letter on its website said hugging cows would bring happiness and positivity. But...
The Rani Kamalapati-bound train (No 20172) hit the cow around 6.15 pm and stopped at the spot for about 15 minutes, the official said.
It has been found that cow-cuddling brings positivity and boosts secretion of oxytocin —the hormone released during social bonding— in the body, says SP Gupta, former Chairman of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI)....
Cows may be revered but remain ill-treated in India.
A brief history of the policing of Indians who eat beef
In 2018, Qasim, a goat trader, was brutally lynched to death by a mob after they accused him of cow slaughter in 2018 at his house in Pilkhuwa, Hapur District....
It is important to understand the depth of the politicisation of the issue of cow protection which, over the last couple of decades, has resulted in the...
In the face of increasingly indifferent law enforcement, Jharkhand is witness to increased violence against people suspected to consume beef or transport cows.
As people get disproportionately targeted for eating beef based on caste and class, it is important to understand the blurred history of beef-eating in India.
Though the cow never attained the status of a ‘mother’ among Bengali Hindus in contrast to their counterparts in North India, it became a major political...
If one has to pick single most significant factor that binds Keralites together irrespective of their political and religious affiliations, it is nothing other...
How does the cow politics of the RSS/BJP or relevant theories by scholars justify the complete marginalization of the buffalo in our history, memory,...
What happens when seemingly harmless misinformation contributes to a climate that enables violence against those that do not subscribe to the views of the...
The Adivasis don’t milch cows for milk, but leave it for their calves to grow stronger to help them in cultivating their fields. They celebrate both cow and...
Markets across the country are being flooded by products made from cow urine and dung including all sorts of concoctions, which are claimed to cure...
To understand why does myth of the holy cow continues to endure, one must look at history, not the one preached by WhatsApp University but real textual...
In Uttar Pradesh, the cow, and its progeny, an animal essential for the rural economy, has transformed into a symbol of distress for both Muslims and Hindus.
The politics of cow can’t be decoded without appreciating a genuine cultural rift that pervades several spheres, linguistic to ideological.
A compilation of observations by judiciary at all three levels, some validating commonly held, unscientific myths surrounding the cow, others proffer sensible...
Judge Samir Vyas also said all problems of the Earth will be solved the day no drop of cow's blood drops on the earth.
