In Hinduism, the cow occupies a place that is both practical and symbolic. It is tied to daily life, rural economy, food, ritual and belief. For many Hindus, that is exactly why the cow is treated ...

As a truck screeches to a halt on an Indian highway in the middle of the night, devout young Hindus armed with sticks scramble inside, searching for cows they consider sacred. Almost every night, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Varun Chopra's Oscar-contending documentary short Holy Cowboys, the director offers a peek into a side of India's societal ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - A hardline Hindu organization, known for its opposition to "corrupting" Western food imports, is planning to launch a new soft drink made from cow's urine, often seen as ...

On this farm and creamery run by Hindu devotees and modeled after a traditional Indian gaushala, or cow sanctuary, the only one of its kind in the United States, both soil and soul are cultivated with ...

The basics of Hindu cosmology and mythology. (This is the third of a series. See earlier ones here and here.) Christians and Jews tend to ask lots of questions about how life began. Hindus tend not to ...

Dozens of Hindu activists held a cow urine party in the Indian capital Saturday to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, as countries around the world struggle to control the deadly pandemic.

NEW DELHI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A Hindu mob killed a Muslim man in India over rumours that he butchered a cow, unleashing violence that police on Wednesday blamed on tension fuelled by politicians who ...

The lynching began with an announcement over the loudspeaker of the local temple: a calf had been slaughtered. It was 28th September 2015, around the Eid holiday, and Hindu-Muslim tensions were ...