Cow Photographs

A man was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Monday for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of a community by deliberately circulating a photograph of cow slaughter on social media, police said.

A photograph of Rakbar Khan -- the man who died in Rajasthan's Alwar allegedly after being beaten up by cow vigilantes -- sitting upright inside a police car has raised further questions about the role of the police in the attack.

A second Union Minister, Giriraj Singh, has landed in a controversy after a show of support for a set of riots-accused leaders, whom he visited at a jail in Bihar's Nawada. Mr Singh met the jailed right-wing leaders on Saturday, days after his cabinet colleague Jayant Sinha was photographed felicitating eight men held guilty of killing a meat trade...

The Uttar Pradesh police have apologised after the photograph of a man beaten by a mob, allegedly over cow slaughter rumours in Hapur district, being dragged by locals in the presence of cops, went viral on the social media. Three policemen present at the spot have now been taken off duty.

In what Twitterati are calling "Kashmiri trolling at its best," an "admit card" has reportedly been issued to a donkey to take a recruitment test for naib tehsildars in Jammu and Kashmir. News agency PTI reports that a prankster got the hall ticket issued by Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board in the name of 'Kachur Khar' (which translates t...

The Supreme Court today took the Madhya Pradesh police to task, saying it seemed it had not examined the videos and photographs pertaining to the 2013 communal riots, triggered by an alleged rumour that a cow had been slaughtered.

The police in Maharashtra's Malegaon want to take mugshots of every cow and bull in town in what they believe is the best way of protecting these animals from slaughter.

When Babubhai Patel had the second of his three daughters, fellow villagers sympathised with him. The poor cattle farmer would have to sell off his cows to marry off his daughters they said aloud. For no one in Kangvi, a village of 200-odd inhabitants in Gujarat, had even been to college. And like many of their brothers in India's rural heartland, ...

A man was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Monday for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of a community by deliberately circulating a photograph of cow slaughter on social media, police said.

A photograph of Rakbar Khan -- the man who died in Rajasthan's Alwar allegedly after being beaten up by cow vigilantes -- sitting upright inside a police car has raised further questions about the role of the police in the attack.

A second Union Minister, Giriraj Singh, has landed in a controversy after a show of support for a set of riots-accused leaders, whom he visited at a jail in Bihar's Nawada. Mr Singh met the jailed right-wing leaders on Saturday, days after his cabinet colleague Jayant Sinha was photographed felicitating eight men held guilty of killing a meat trade...

The Uttar Pradesh police have apologised after the photograph of a man beaten by a mob, allegedly over cow slaughter rumours in Hapur district, being dragged by locals in the presence of cops, went viral on the social media. Three policemen present at the spot have now been taken off duty.

In what Twitterati are calling "Kashmiri trolling at its best," an "admit card" has reportedly been issued to a donkey to take a recruitment test for naib tehsildars in Jammu and Kashmir. News agency PTI reports that a prankster got the hall ticket issued by Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board in the name of 'Kachur Khar' (which translates t...

The Supreme Court today took the Madhya Pradesh police to task, saying it seemed it had not examined the videos and photographs pertaining to the 2013 communal riots, triggered by an alleged rumour that a cow had been slaughtered.

The police in Maharashtra's Malegaon want to take mugshots of every cow and bull in town in what they believe is the best way of protecting these animals from slaughter.

When Babubhai Patel had the second of his three daughters, fellow villagers sympathised with him. The poor cattle farmer would have to sell off his cows to marry off his daughters they said aloud. For no one in Kangvi, a village of 200-odd inhabitants in Gujarat, had even been to college. And like many of their brothers in India's rural heartland, ...