The Gurugram cow protection task force will include government officials and nominated civilians to check both cattle smuggling and vigilantism.
Referring to the killings of two men, Junaid and Nasir, from Rajasthan in Haryana on February 16, Owaisi said the Modi government had given a long rope to such 'gau rakshaks' (cow protectors).
The charred remains of Nasir and Junaid of Rajasthan's Ghatmika village were found in Haryana's Bhiwani. Five Bajrang Dal members are accused in the case, one of whom has been arrested and has been sent to police remand. The...
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...
Accused Monu Manesar of Bajrang Dal has earlier claimed on Twitter that his cow vigilante activities are supported by Nuh Police in Haryana.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has termed inhuman and barbaric the alleged abduction and murder of two men by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan and sought a judicial inquiry into the matter.
Hundreds of people blocked the Nuh-Alwar highway in Firozpur Jhirka on Friday demanding the arrest of the accused in the abduction and murder of the two men from Bharatpur whose charred bodies were found in Haryana's Bhiwani
Monu Manesar of Bajrang Dal is a prominent cow vigilante in Haryana who is also wanted in an attempt to murder case in Haryana.
The charred remains of Nasir and Junaid of Rajasthan's Ghatmika village were found in Haryana's Bhiwani. Earlier, the village witnessed the brutal killings 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.
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...
Cows are economically important because zero budget farming is based on cow dung and urine, he said.
The Cow Hug Day brings together two issues dear to the Hindu Right — cow and opposition to Valentine's Day. In its appeal to the public to hug the cow on...
A brief history of the policing of Indians who eat beef
As per the 2019 Livestock Census, Uttar Pradesh has 1.6 million stray cows. The number has increased a whopping 17 percent since 2017 when Yogi Adityanath...
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...
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...
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.
