Bihar Beef

The local sarpanch Sushil Singh, and two others - Ravi Sah and Ujwal Sharma - were arrested for mob lynching.

Swami Agnivesh was surrounded and manhandled today near the BJP office in Delhi, where he had gone to pay his last respects to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This is the second attack in a month on the 79-year-old social activist, who was earlier beaten in Jharkhand by a mob that allegedly included BJP workers.

Seven Muslim men were beaten by a mob of self-appointed cow protectors in Bihar on Thursday over rumours that they were eating beef.

Three men were beaten up by a mob in Bihar's Bhojpur district yesterday allegedly because they were found to be transporting beef, police said. The driver of a truck and two others were hurt in the incident.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday demanded that illegal slaughter houses flourishing in Jharkhand should be closed and sealed in line with neighbouring Uttar Pradesh."We also demand that beef should be banned in line with Maharashtra," said Pramod Mishra, VHP's Bihar and Jharkhand head to news agency IANS.

To ring-fence the capital markets from any possible systemic issues and manipulations, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the stock exchanges have beefed up their surveillance and risk management systems to tackle expected volatility in markets due to trouncing of BJP-led alliance in Bihar polls.

A day before Bihar votes in the fifth and final phase of the assembly elections, the state woke up this morning to a prominent ad in newspapers featuring a woman hugging a cow and an attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on his "silence" over statements made by his allies on beef.

When it comes to political benefits, the Modi mantra is simple: If you can't convince them, communalise them.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Kerala House beef controversy and the Dalit killings in Haryana were examples of "channel-driven news as opposed to actual news". These and the row over reservation would have no impact on the ongoing Bihar election, he said.

He is proving himself a leader of not just state relevance but of national importance.

With BJP on the backfoot over beef controversy and the writers' protest against rising intolerance, party president Amit Shah today said that BJP cannot be blamed for incidents which occurred in states ruled by other parties.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that only development-related issues should be discussed during elections, and accused his political opponents of raising the beef controversy to hide their failures.

Terming the recent controversy over beef and the Dadri lynching incident as 'unnecessary', Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Kalraj Mishra today said these issues were being drawn out of a non-issue by "some people" to gain mileage in the Bihar elections.

Observing that India has imposed a complete ban on export of cow meat, former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today dared Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to prove his claim of 14.5 per cent increase in export of the product since the NDA government came to power last year.

BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today flayed RJD president Lalu Prasad for "hurting the sentiments of lakhs of people rearing cows" by justifying eating of beef and asked him to apologise for taking refuge behind the "shaitan" (devil) in him for making the controversial remarks.

The local sarpanch Sushil Singh, and two others - Ravi Sah and Ujwal Sharma - were arrested for mob lynching.

Swami Agnivesh was surrounded and manhandled today near the BJP office in Delhi, where he had gone to pay his last respects to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This is the second attack in a month on the 79-year-old social activist, who was earlier beaten in Jharkhand by a mob that allegedly included BJP workers.

Seven Muslim men were beaten by a mob of self-appointed cow protectors in Bihar on Thursday over rumours that they were eating beef.

Three men were beaten up by a mob in Bihar's Bhojpur district yesterday allegedly because they were found to be transporting beef, police said. The driver of a truck and two others were hurt in the incident.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday demanded that illegal slaughter houses flourishing in Jharkhand should be closed and sealed in line with neighbouring Uttar Pradesh."We also demand that beef should be banned in line with Maharashtra," said Pramod Mishra, VHP's Bihar and Jharkhand head to news agency IANS.

To ring-fence the capital markets from any possible systemic issues and manipulations, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the stock exchanges have beefed up their surveillance and risk management systems to tackle expected volatility in markets due to trouncing of BJP-led alliance in Bihar polls.

A day before Bihar votes in the fifth and final phase of the assembly elections, the state woke up this morning to a prominent ad in newspapers featuring a woman hugging a cow and an attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on his "silence" over statements made by his allies on beef.

When it comes to political benefits, the Modi mantra is simple: If you can't convince them, communalise them.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Kerala House beef controversy and the Dalit killings in Haryana were examples of "channel-driven news as opposed to actual news". These and the row over reservation would have no impact on the ongoing Bihar election, he said.

He is proving himself a leader of not just state relevance but of national importance.

With BJP on the backfoot over beef controversy and the writers' protest against rising intolerance, party president Amit Shah today said that BJP cannot be blamed for incidents which occurred in states ruled by other parties.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that only development-related issues should be discussed during elections, and accused his political opponents of raising the beef controversy to hide their failures.

Terming the recent controversy over beef and the Dadri lynching incident as 'unnecessary', Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Kalraj Mishra today said these issues were being drawn out of a non-issue by "some people" to gain mileage in the Bihar elections.

Observing that India has imposed a complete ban on export of cow meat, former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today dared Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to prove his claim of 14.5 per cent increase in export of the product since the NDA government came to power last year.

BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today flayed RJD president Lalu Prasad for "hurting the sentiments of lakhs of people rearing cows" by justifying eating of beef and asked him to apologise for taking refuge behind the "shaitan" (devil) in him for making the controversial remarks.