Beef In Kerala

The Lakshadweep administration's decision to, among other things, remove meat from school menus and shut down dairy farms had sparked a wave of furore. The High Court has now stayed the decision till the Centre files an affidavit on the matter.

Amid reports of beef being dropped from the menu for state police trainees in Kerala, the Congress workers distributed beef curry and bread in front a police station in Kozhikode on Tuesday.

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.

The devastating floods in Kerala are the result of cow slaughter in the state, a BJP lawmaker in neighbouring Karnataka has said in an outrageous comment. Basangouda Patil Yatnal went as far as to say that Kerala was suffering the consequences of "hurting Hindu sentiment".

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 college magazine in Kerala is back in the news, this time because students are protesting the college authorities banning words such as beef, dalit and fascism from the publication.

When Kerala's National Award-winning actress Surabhi Lakshmi ate beef for a TV show for Onam and posted a picture of her eating chicken on the day of the festival, little did she realise, she says, she would find herself in the crosshairs of abusive trolls.

KJ Alphons, a bureaucrat who has joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government as Minister of State for Tourism and IT, said today that he would act like a "bridge" between the Christian community and the BJP

Security at Kerala House on Jantar Mantar road here was beefed up following reports of a political party planning a 'beef festival' there in the evening.

Hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party volunteers received BJP President Amit Shah at Nedumbassery International Airport in Kochi today. Mr Shah, who is on a three-day visit in Kerala, arrived in the southern state some days after the central government banned sale of cattle in animal markets for purposes other than agricultural and farm use.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre's rule on cattle trade has nothing to do with state rules on animal slaughter. The rule, which bans sale of cattle for slaughter in animal markets, has triggered widespread protests in southern states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and in the northeast, where beef is a staple.

A large number of students held a protest at the Indian Institute of Technology or IIT Madras against an attack on a research scholar who participated in a "beef fest" earlier this week. The beef fest was organised to protest against the Centre's new cattle rules, which the students say infringe on their right to eat what they want. There have been...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government will not accept the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets. She said the ban imposed by the Narendra Modi government was "undemocratic and unconstitutional", adding the West Bengal government will raise a legal challenge against the new rule.

After strident criticism and protests in many states over its decision to ban the trade of cattle for slaughter, the centre is reportedly considering a revision to its order to exclude buffaloes from the new restrictions.

The Lakshadweep administration's decision to, among other things, remove meat from school menus and shut down dairy farms had sparked a wave of furore. The High Court has now stayed the decision till the Centre files an affidavit on the matter.

Amid reports of beef being dropped from the menu for state police trainees in Kerala, the Congress workers distributed beef curry and bread in front a police station in Kozhikode on Tuesday.

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.

The devastating floods in Kerala are the result of cow slaughter in the state, a BJP lawmaker in neighbouring Karnataka has said in an outrageous comment. Basangouda Patil Yatnal went as far as to say that Kerala was suffering the consequences of "hurting Hindu sentiment".

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 college magazine in Kerala is back in the news, this time because students are protesting the college authorities banning words such as beef, dalit and fascism from the publication.

When Kerala's National Award-winning actress Surabhi Lakshmi ate beef for a TV show for Onam and posted a picture of her eating chicken on the day of the festival, little did she realise, she says, she would find herself in the crosshairs of abusive trolls.

KJ Alphons, a bureaucrat who has joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government as Minister of State for Tourism and IT, said today that he would act like a "bridge" between the Christian community and the BJP

Security at Kerala House on Jantar Mantar road here was beefed up following reports of a political party planning a 'beef festival' there in the evening.

Hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party volunteers received BJP President Amit Shah at Nedumbassery International Airport in Kochi today. Mr Shah, who is on a three-day visit in Kerala, arrived in the southern state some days after the central government banned sale of cattle in animal markets for purposes other than agricultural and farm use.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre's rule on cattle trade has nothing to do with state rules on animal slaughter. The rule, which bans sale of cattle for slaughter in animal markets, has triggered widespread protests in southern states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and in the northeast, where beef is a staple.

A large number of students held a protest at the Indian Institute of Technology or IIT Madras against an attack on a research scholar who participated in a "beef fest" earlier this week. The beef fest was organised to protest against the Centre's new cattle rules, which the students say infringe on their right to eat what they want. There have been...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government will not accept the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets. She said the ban imposed by the Narendra Modi government was "undemocratic and unconstitutional", adding the West Bengal government will raise a legal challenge against the new rule.

After strident criticism and protests in many states over its decision to ban the trade of cattle for slaughter, the centre is reportedly considering a revision to its order to exclude buffaloes from the new restrictions.