Cow slaughter

Engineers, realtors and private professionals are among the 10,000 self-styled cow protectors spread across Gujarat’s 33 districts, who are just a WhatsApp message or phonecall away from hunting down vehicles suspected of ferrying cattle for slaughter. The cow-protection brigade has thrived in the past four years, forming 50 groups under the larger umbrella of the [...]

In yet another case of murder of a Hindu leader, Vishva Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) Agra city unit vice-president Arun Kumar Mahaur, a Dalit, was on Thursday shot dead in broad daylight on the way back home after performing his daily prayers at a local temple. He was accosted by five assailants in a busy marketplace [...]

MEERUT: Family members of murdered Muslim gaurakshak, Dilshad Bharti, fear for their lives even 16 months after he was allegedly shot in the head by the beef mafia. But that has not stopped them from continuing his fight. The family has been instrumental in sealing more than 200 illegal slaughterhouses in Saddiq Nagar area alone. [...]

Under the pretext of disseminating true knowledge about the past to young, impressionable school children, a perverse assault has been launched upon the religious sensitivities of the Hindu community. Marxist historians allege that ancient Hindus ate beef, that this is recorded in their sacred scriptures, and that this should be taught to school children. The [...]

The ‘Goraksha Dal’, Punjab and ‘Govansh Raksha Abhiyan’, Hindu organisations spearheading opposition to cow-slaughter along with other Hindu organizations on Monday upped the ante and issued an ultimatum to the Central Government to close down all the slaughter houses in the country by December 31. In a statement issued on Monday from Ramnathi in Central [...]