India has introduced a nationwide “cow science” exam to “infuse curiosity” about the bovine, according to officials, in the latest promotional push by the country’s Hindu-nationalist government that ...

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung to ward off COVID-19. Some believers have been smearing cow dung on their bodies in the hope it will boost their immunity. Hindus ...

FILE- A woman worships a cow as Indian Hindus offer prayers to the River Ganges, holy to them during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Allahabad, India, June 8, 2014. India’s government-run animal ...

Bihar-based startup Gomini converts indigenous cows into NFTs, letting people own cows remotely while supporting natural ...

For centuries, cows have been considered sacred by India's majority Hindu population, a symbol of both the Earth and the divine. Indeed, so revered are the animals that authorities had planned to ...

BEHROR, India Nov 6 (Reuters) - The beating that ended Pehlu Khan's life was televised nationwide. Cell phone video captured a group of men punching and slinging Khan around the middle of a road in ...

New Delhi — It is Valentine's Day in India after all. That wasn't always the government's intention. A government body was forced to withdraw an appeal urging citizens to celebrate this Feb. 14 not as ...

Last month, the Indian government raised eyebrows when it released the syllabus for a new nationwide test about cows. That test, to be held on February 25, will be conducted online, and it will be for ...

Outside the 150-year-old Tangra Slaughter House in Kolkata, India, a line of cows stretches down the lane alongside the arched, colonial-style building. There are no fixed prices for beef here, so the ...

Indolent cows languidly chewing their cud while befuddled motorists honk and maneuver their vehicles around them is an image as stereotypically Indian as saffron-clad holy men and the Taj Mahal. Now, ...

Indian authorities have arrested three people in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer and a local man involved in clashes over the alleged killing of cows Monday. The shootings are ...