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 ...

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 ...

An 18-year-old schoolboy was shot and killed by so-called cow protection vigilantes in India after they chased him for miles over suspicion of being involved in cattle smuggling. The incident took ...

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In India, cows are sacred. They roam unharmed through the streets as crowds of people and clusters of traffic ebb and flow around them. The Hindu religion regards cows and bulls as holy because they ...

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. The ...

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 registered two new high-yielding synthetic cattle breeds. These breeds can produce over 3,000 kg of milk in 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, ...