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 ...

How Indian Festivals Teach Compassion for Animals reveals how India’s spiritual heritage turns kindness into a way of life.

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 ...

Backlash after MP from Narendra Modi’s ruling party marches with Hindu activists to historic fort after Muslim women offered ...

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 ...

Walk through any meat market in India, and you'll see chickens cooped up in tiny cages, squished together in their own waste. Carcasses of goats hang from hooks at butcher shops, as the next goats ...