But it didn’t matter: The attack was led by “cow vigilantes,” the name for Hindu nationalist militias and mobs that take it upon themselves to violently enforce Hindu supremacy on India’s ...

Hugging a cow will "bring emotional richness" and "hence increase individual and collective happiness," declared the appeal by the Animal Welfare Board of India, a government body that advises the ...

Prime Minister Nehru once described India as “a bundle of the centuries in which the cow and the tractor march together.” Indian business suffers from, and sometimes profits by, such ...

The Animal Welfare Board of India said in a brief statement Friday that it had withdrawn its proposal for “Cow Hug Day” on Feb. 14. The cow has long been worshipped as a motherlike figure in ...

For centuries, cows have been considered sacred by India’s majority Hindu population, a symbol of both the Earth and the divine. Indeed, so revered are the animals that authorities had planned ...

India’s government-run animal welfare department has appealed to citizens to mark Valentine’s Day this year not as a celebration of romance but as "Cow Hug Day" to better promote Hindu values.