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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicCow Protection

Topic: Cow Protection

Telangana teacher suspended for bringing ‘cow brain’ to class to teach students about anatomy

Vikarabad district official says case has been registered and sample sent for forensic testing. ‘Since it was raw meat, few students could not bear smell and vomited,’ he adds.

What’s behind Telangana CM Revanth Reddy’s new gau raksha focus & what the state plans to do

The initiative is meant to improve livestock management and animal welfare in the state & was prompted by recent deaths of bovines at the Vemulawada temple.

Fodder for thought: Modi govt’s cow welfare agency has been headless for 4 yrs, Rs 500 cr lying idle

PM’s pet project Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog was formed in 2019 but has been without chairman due to ‘lack of govt interest’ with funds unutilised. Cow welfare bodies lacking in states too.

Haryana govt notifies 4 fast-track courts amid criticism over implementation of cow protection law

Court observations in certain cow protection cases have highlighted the lack of substantial evidence in the prosecution’s claims.

Haryana cow protection body’s budget rose to Rs 510 cr from Rs 2 cr in 10 years of BJP rule

CM Nayab Singh Saini highlighted increase while announcing a slew of incentives to promote cow protection and support industries manufacturing products using cow dung and urine.

Protesters block road after cow carcasses found in forest near Mathura, cops resort to lathi-charge

Local residents, gau rakshaks and right-wing groups allege cow slaughter on the rise in area due to failure of police and UP government, call for probe and arrests.

Haryana is the hotbed of gau raksha influencers and crimes of religious passion

From toll booth informants to Instagram warriors to election candidates, Haryana’s gau rakshaks are blurring the lines between religion, law, and politics—and leaving chaos in their wake.

Gandhi was once inspired by Vivekananda’s prescription of ‘beef, biceps, Bhagavad Gita’

In 'Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian', James Staples talks about how bovine issues became noteworthy once again in India in the colonial period.

NCR gau rakshaks are a different lot. Engineer, environmentalist, Christian banker

There is a shift from love for dogs to love for cows among the elites now, says Christy, a Christian woman who wants to one day start an all-women gau raksha dal.

Not just vigilantes: How gau rakshaks like Monu Manesar fuel Haryana govt’s cow protection drive

Manesar, accused in deaths of 2 alleged cattle smugglers, is part of Haryana govt’s Gurugram Special Cow Protection Task Force. Cow protection ecosystem includes thousands of ‘volunteers’ too.

On Camera

No other city is like Gurugram—’so mismanaged, yet so highly spoken of’

Gurugram has a problem of structural abandonment, whether you’re a domestic worker speaking an alien language, or the much-celebrated CEO of the new hot startup.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.