The crackdown on slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh under Hindutva hardliner Yogi Adityanath is adversely affecting the marriage ceremonies in the country’s most populated state. According to a report, a groom called off a marriage ceremony in Muzaffarnagar after the bride’s family said they may not be able to serve any[Read More…]
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Kalkaji ‘gaurakshak’ terror: PFA member arrested
Delhi Police on Monday arrested Shashank Sharma, a resident of Rohini in New Delhi, in connection with the assault on three youth who were transporting cattle. Sharma has claimed to be a member of People For Animals, an NGO chaired by BJP leader and Union Minister Maneka Gandhi. On Saturday[Read More…]
Man told to marry off his 7-year old daughter for killing a calf
A caste panchayat of the Banjara community in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh had ordered a man to get his seven-year-old girl married to an eight-year-old boy as punishment for killing a calf three years ago, New Indian Express reported. Jagdish Banjara, had already been punished when the incident happened[Read More…]
Gaurakshaks must be booked under anti-terror laws
UP: Qureshis to protect cows
Minister justifies Muslim man’s murder in Alwar
Rajasthan: Gaurakshaks assaulted five men, one dead
A 55-year-old man succumbed to his injuries on Monday night after he was allegedly attacked by a group of gaurakshaks for transporting cows in Rajasthan’s Alwar on Saturday evening, The Indian Express reported. Rajasthan Police said the deceased, Pehlu Khan, and four others were attacked even as they produced documents[Read More…]
4 arrested for attacking couple who threw stone at cow
Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested four persons for allegedly attacking a couple after the woman allegedly hurled a stone at a cow in south Delhi’s Kusum Pahadi area. The incident happened on March 31 when Jaishankar and his wife Sharmila, who live in slums in Savitri Camp, were going to[Read More…]
‘Cow is mummy in UP, but yummy in Northeast’
BJP minority cell to raise awareness against beef eating
In Yogi’s UP, meat shop owners turn tea vendors
As the crackdown against slaughter houses are intensifying in Uttar Pradesh under the saffron rule, meat shop owners are constrained to sell tea to make ends meet. “My meat shop has been forcefully closed even when I had proper license, forced to sell tea now,” Nazakat, a resident of Muzaffarnagar,[Read More…]
Shiv Sainiks force 500 meat shops to shut down for Navratri
At least 500 meat shops, including a KFC outlet, in Gurgaon were forcefully shutdown by over 200 Shiv Sainiks in old Gurgaon for the nine days of Navratri. Sena workers also threatened shop owners to halt their business on every Tuesday. “A number of Hindus keep fast on Navratri and[Read More…]
UP: ‘Gau rakshaks’ set several meat shops on fire
Two days after ‘gau rakshak’ Yogi Adityanath has been sworn in as UP chief minister, several meat shops were set on fire allegedly by Hindutva brigade in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night, News 18.com reported. The police have not registered a first information report (FIR) because according[Read More…]
UP: BJP govt closes two slaughterhouses
Rajya Sabha discusses cow, applications of its urine and dung
Haemoglobin level of patients using “gaumutra” does not fall even after chemotherapy; cows are the only animal that inhale as well as exhale oxygen; ghee made of cow’s milk contains 47 per cent oxygen; “gaumutra (cow’s urine)” in sugarcane field will ensure longer, thicker and sweeter sugarcane and yield more[Read More…]