The dairy sector is one of the few success stories in India's recent agriculture history

An official at the CMO defended the chief minister's remarks saying that he was only stating something which is a common belief in the hills of Uttarakhand.

Speaking at an event in Vrindavan, Modi said cow has been a vital element of the rural economy.

GCMMF is considered as India's largest food products marketing organisation with a turnover of Rs 40,000 crore.

Other demands like creating a separate ministry for cow protection, government purchase of cow dung and rehabilitation of old cows will be raised at the rally.

The Rajasthan police gave clean chit to six persons named in the FIR registered in the lynching of Khan.

The police had registered an FIR against them based on Khan’s statement made in an intensive care unit of the Kailash Hospital in Behror on April 1.

A student of the university said: "It is a shame that when the university has no good books in the library, good camera equipment in studios or good computers, it is planning to set up a cowshed."