Gurgaon, India — Across India, farmers are becoming their own night security guards—patrolling their harvest and checking on fences or trenches surrounding their land. But their enemies aren’t robbers ...

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 ...

The Indian cow is apparently omnipotent, or so it would seem from the latest comment made by the country's education minister, Vasudev Devnani. According to him, the cow is the only animal that can ...

Cow's milk, curd, and ghee are nutritious. They constitute the bulk of the Indian diet. They also help to improve immunity, digestion, and supply vitamins and minerals.

Men in western India are smearing cow dung all over their arms, head and entire bodies. In Hinduism, the cow is a sacred symbol of life and earth and for centuries Hindus have used cow dung to clean ...

In Varun Chopra’s Oscar-contending documentary short Holy Cowboys, the director offers a peek into a side of India’s societal structure on how the cow, a sacred and holy animal to the majority Hindu ...

Indian MP ‘purifies’ Muslim prayer spot with cow dung and urine - Backlash after MP from Narendra Modi’s ruling party marches ...

Carrying a large aluminum bowl, Susheela Kumari bustles around behind two dozen cows in a shelter in northern India, ready to collect a valuable product: urine. Distilled urine from female cattle ...

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 ...

A High Court judge in Allahabad in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh issued a reactionary ruling dripping with Hindu-supremacism earlier this month when denying bail to Javed, a 59-year-old ...

In a move that is bizarre even by Indian political standards, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, chief minister of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh (MP), and a senior leader of the ruling right-wing ...