Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE- A woman worships a cow as Indian Hindus offer prayers to the River Ganges, holy to them during the Ganga Dussehra festival ...

India has introduced a nationwide “cow science” exam to “infuse curiosity” about the bovine, according to officials, in the latest promotional push by the country’s Hindu-nationalist government that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 5 million stray cattle roam India, eating garbage, causing car accidents, attacking people, and spreading disease. Farmers ...

NEW DELHI — Indian students were hitting the books hard in preparation for a big test on cows, reading that India’s cows have more emotions than foreign ones, and that their humps have special powers.

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 ...

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, ...

On a sunny winter day, a few years ago, I was sitting in the verandah of a small house in a village on the outskirts of Delhi. I heard the iron gate creak. I looked up and saw a cow resting her head ...