One of India’s most prestigious universities has been accused of compromising its academic freedom by cancelling a seminar on democracy the same day it issued a directive to staff to promote a summit ...

About 5 million stray cattle roam India, eating garbage, causing car accidents, attacking people, and spreading disease. Farmers are turning to artificial insemination to control numbers, and the ...

Perhaps more than any other religion, Hinduism treats animals as sacred. Learn about the divinity of cows, elephants, and ...

In India cows are not only seen as a gentle animal but they are also a holy symbol. For many families, a cow is like a giver of life because it provides us a number of dairy products. In villages cows ...

Dugongs, or sea cows, are believed to have inspired ancient seafaring tales of mermaids. Now, the species is vulnerable to ...

A viral disease has killed nearly 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened over 2 million more. The outbreak has triggered devastating income losses for cattle farmers since the disease not ...

India has introduced a nationwide “cow science” exam to “infuse curiosity” about the bovine, according to officials, in the latest promotional push by the country’s Hindu-nationalist government that ...

In India, cows, sacred to Hindus, are dying after eating plastic bags. One solution: don't ban the bags, make them thicker. Robert Krulwich explains. There is a cow killer in India. That's right, a ...

Indolent cows languidly chewing their cud while befuddled motorists honk and maneuver their vehicles around them is an image as stereotypically Indian as saffron-clad holy men and the Taj Mahal. Now, ...

As travellers chase grounding experiences, cow cuddling has quietly become India’s newest wellness travel phenomenon—start ...

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung to ward off COVID-19. Some believers have been smearing cow dung on their bodies in the hope it will boost their immunity. Hindus ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2015, Vikas Gupta was ready for a change. Then the head of international marketing at a large corporation in Mumbai, the 42-year-old decided to give it ...