Beef Controversy

Lakshadweep newly-appointed administrator Praful Khoda Patel is in the middle of a political storm due to some of his recent decisions, which have caused discontent in the Muslim-majority islands.

The Keralagovernment has "no interest in hurting religious beliefs of any group,"a ministerclarified today amid controversy over a tweet shared by his department over a popular delicacy. "In Kerala, no one links food with religion," Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran said.

Union Minister Giriraj Singh waded into yet another controversy today after claiming that children from "well-off families", who study at missionary schools and graduate from the prestigious IITs, go abroad and eat beef because "we have not inculcated 'sanskaar' (tradition) in them"

Just days after Satya Pal Malik assumed charge as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, a video has emerged of BJP state president Ravinder Raina controversially claiming that the new governor is "their man" and that they did not want former governor NN Vohra to continue in the post.

Union Minister Jayant Sinha who landed himself in a major controversy after felicitating eight men held guilty of killing a meat trader in the name of cow protection, said in a series of tweets today that he was "honouring the due process of law".

A controversy that began over beef cutlets a week ago has led to an indefinite shutdown of the Cochin University College of Engineering in Kerala's Kuttanad. Around 200 students, mostly from outside the state, today boycotted internal examinations and protested outside the vice-chancellor's office on the university's main campus located 80 kilometr...

A group of students from north India have complained that they were served cutlets whose key ingredient was beef during a seminar at an engineering college in Kerala. The students said they came to know of the ingredient in the snack only after they ate them

A BJP leader in Meghalaya has resigned in protest against the Centre's new rule that bans cattle trade for slaughter. Bernard Marak, a leader from Garo hills, had created controversy earlier this week by promising cheap beef to people if the party came to power. Assembly elections in the hill state, where beef is staple, is due early next year.

Meat samples collected from seven biryani traders in Mewat in Haryana, after a controversy erupted over beef being served by them in 2016, were of cow or oxen, a university laboratory confirmed on Monday.

Even as the beef controversy heats up in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of North India, BJP has no plans to go hard on the beef eaters of North East.

A BJP leader in Kerala who is running for parliament attempted today to dismount a controversy centred on his stand on whether beef should be banned.

The police in Haryana's Mewat claim they have found beef in the biriyani they have been collecting over the past few days.

Cow vigilantes on Saturday set a truck carrying chicken feed on fire, and beat up the owner of the vehicle suspecting that it was carrying beef, at Zhora village, 40 km from Bhopal.

A minister of Madhya Pradesh has added to the controversy over the beating of two Muslim women in his state following rumours of their carrying beef - saying the women were at fault and the beating was minimal.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today refused to be dragged into the controversy over his cabinet colleague Anil Vij's reported remarks on beef consumption, saying it was "waste of time" to discuss the beef ban.

Lakshadweep newly-appointed administrator Praful Khoda Patel is in the middle of a political storm due to some of his recent decisions, which have caused discontent in the Muslim-majority islands.

The Keralagovernment has "no interest in hurting religious beliefs of any group,"a ministerclarified today amid controversy over a tweet shared by his department over a popular delicacy. "In Kerala, no one links food with religion," Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran said.

Union Minister Giriraj Singh waded into yet another controversy today after claiming that children from "well-off families", who study at missionary schools and graduate from the prestigious IITs, go abroad and eat beef because "we have not inculcated 'sanskaar' (tradition) in them"

Just days after Satya Pal Malik assumed charge as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, a video has emerged of BJP state president Ravinder Raina controversially claiming that the new governor is "their man" and that they did not want former governor NN Vohra to continue in the post.

Union Minister Jayant Sinha who landed himself in a major controversy after felicitating eight men held guilty of killing a meat trader in the name of cow protection, said in a series of tweets today that he was "honouring the due process of law".

A controversy that began over beef cutlets a week ago has led to an indefinite shutdown of the Cochin University College of Engineering in Kerala's Kuttanad. Around 200 students, mostly from outside the state, today boycotted internal examinations and protested outside the vice-chancellor's office on the university's main campus located 80 kilometr...

A group of students from north India have complained that they were served cutlets whose key ingredient was beef during a seminar at an engineering college in Kerala. The students said they came to know of the ingredient in the snack only after they ate them

A BJP leader in Meghalaya has resigned in protest against the Centre's new rule that bans cattle trade for slaughter. Bernard Marak, a leader from Garo hills, had created controversy earlier this week by promising cheap beef to people if the party came to power. Assembly elections in the hill state, where beef is staple, is due early next year.

Meat samples collected from seven biryani traders in Mewat in Haryana, after a controversy erupted over beef being served by them in 2016, were of cow or oxen, a university laboratory confirmed on Monday.

Even as the beef controversy heats up in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of North India, BJP has no plans to go hard on the beef eaters of North East.

A BJP leader in Kerala who is running for parliament attempted today to dismount a controversy centred on his stand on whether beef should be banned.

The police in Haryana's Mewat claim they have found beef in the biriyani they have been collecting over the past few days.

Cow vigilantes on Saturday set a truck carrying chicken feed on fire, and beat up the owner of the vehicle suspecting that it was carrying beef, at Zhora village, 40 km from Bhopal.

A minister of Madhya Pradesh has added to the controversy over the beating of two Muslim women in his state following rumours of their carrying beef - saying the women were at fault and the beating was minimal.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today refused to be dragged into the controversy over his cabinet colleague Anil Vij's reported remarks on beef consumption, saying it was "waste of time" to discuss the beef ban.