Beef Ban In India

In a startling case of mob justice, two men were stripped and paraded while being whipped with belts for allegedly selling beef in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district.

Non-vegetarian food is not a taboo and cannot be banned in the country but beef should be avoided, senior RSS functionary J Nanda Kumar said on Wednesday.

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.

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 BJP government in Karnataka is all set to introduce a bill against cow slaughter during the upcoming legislative session after the issue was discussed today at a cabinet meeting held in Bengaluru.

The Chief Minister versus Governor row in Maharashtra continued on the day of Dussehra, as Uddhav Thackeray hit back at Bhagat Singh Koshyari in his Vijayadashami address, advising him to follow the speech of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Hardline Assam BJP leader Satya Ranjan Borah has a problem with serving beef - not just to people, but also to carnivorous animals in zoos, specifically tigers

A march on Republic Day organised by social activists in Mumbai is turning into a show of strength by the opposition ahead of the Budget session, on the invitation of Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. It is being seen as another attempt at building a united opposition front to take on the BJP in parliament and test the ground for a coa...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today, ordered a stay in the proceedings of 15-year-old Junaid Khan's murder trial which has been going on in the Faridabad sessions court. The stay was ordered after Junaid's father, Jalaluddin, filed a petition at the Punjab and Haryana High court seeking a CBI inquiry on December 2.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is in Gandhinagar today to take part in a rally organised by young Gujarat Other Backward Classes leader Alpesh Thakore, who is joining the party in his presence.

Azad, the disabled auto rickshaw driver thrashed in Faridabad on Friday on suspicion that he was transporting cow meat, has alleged his attackers had poured petrol on his face and were about to light the matchstick

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.

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

The landmark judgement declaring right to privacy a fundamental right would have "some bearing" in matters relating to slaughter of cows, bulls and bullocks in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court said on Friday.

The legal battle over the beef ban in Maharashtra has now reached the Supreme Court with the Maharashtra government insisting that the stringent law passed in 2015 prevails

In a startling case of mob justice, two men were stripped and paraded while being whipped with belts for allegedly selling beef in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district.

Non-vegetarian food is not a taboo and cannot be banned in the country but beef should be avoided, senior RSS functionary J Nanda Kumar said on Wednesday.

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.

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 BJP government in Karnataka is all set to introduce a bill against cow slaughter during the upcoming legislative session after the issue was discussed today at a cabinet meeting held in Bengaluru.

The Chief Minister versus Governor row in Maharashtra continued on the day of Dussehra, as Uddhav Thackeray hit back at Bhagat Singh Koshyari in his Vijayadashami address, advising him to follow the speech of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Hardline Assam BJP leader Satya Ranjan Borah has a problem with serving beef - not just to people, but also to carnivorous animals in zoos, specifically tigers

A march on Republic Day organised by social activists in Mumbai is turning into a show of strength by the opposition ahead of the Budget session, on the invitation of Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. It is being seen as another attempt at building a united opposition front to take on the BJP in parliament and test the ground for a coa...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today, ordered a stay in the proceedings of 15-year-old Junaid Khan's murder trial which has been going on in the Faridabad sessions court. The stay was ordered after Junaid's father, Jalaluddin, filed a petition at the Punjab and Haryana High court seeking a CBI inquiry on December 2.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is in Gandhinagar today to take part in a rally organised by young Gujarat Other Backward Classes leader Alpesh Thakore, who is joining the party in his presence.

Azad, the disabled auto rickshaw driver thrashed in Faridabad on Friday on suspicion that he was transporting cow meat, has alleged his attackers had poured petrol on his face and were about to light the matchstick

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.

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

The landmark judgement declaring right to privacy a fundamental right would have "some bearing" in matters relating to slaughter of cows, bulls and bullocks in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court said on Friday.

The legal battle over the beef ban in Maharashtra has now reached the Supreme Court with the Maharashtra government insisting that the stringent law passed in 2015 prevails