India’s Cow Crisis Part 5: Penalty for abandoning cattle final nail in coffin

The increasing trend of legal penalty for abandonment will backfire

India's Cow Crisis Part 3: Brutal to kill India’s ancient uber economy

Sunita Narain on cow-vigilantism, cattle trade and the collapse of the livestock economy of India

India’s Cow Crisis Part 4: The stigma of Mewat

How this backward district in Haryana has borne the brunt of stringent cow-related laws

India's Cow Crisis Part 1: Nepal bears the brunt of India's cow vigilantism

Hounded by cow vigilantes and trade restrictions, farmers in Uttar Pradesh's border areas abandon their unproductive cattle in Nepalese villages …

‘India needs to look beyond gaushalas to address its stray cattle problem’

India has over five million stray cattle

Trans-Atlantic BSE

Prions stay out

New research finds brain cell receptors that let the killer prions in

Madness again

BSE spreads to sheep

Cowed down

Can life exist sans DNA?

Stanley Prusiner, winner of the 1997 Nobel prize for medicine, devoted two decades of research to answer this question

Six named by Pehlu Khan in lynching case found not guilty

What about protection of citizens and their rights? 

Cowering countryside: The effect of cow vigilantism on India's agriculture sector

Down to Earth travels across north India to speak with farmers and animal rearers to find out how cow vigilantism has affected the rural economy

Unfinished research

Beware of BSE

The deshi cow milk jinx

Our wealth of indigenous cattle breeds have failed to benefit those who are conserving them – the poor farmers, herders and nomadic …

All that is bad

ends up in Africa? A suspect consignment reaches the shores of Kenya riling the natives

More mad cows?

Stop cow vigilantism; take urgent steps to end violence: Supreme Court tells Centre

The apex court also asked chief secretaries of each state to consult DGPs to keep highways safe from cow vigilante groups

Holy cow! So many patents

ICAR and CSIR laboratories are helping a Nagpur cow research institute to patent therapies based on cow excreta

Utterly bovine

UK researchers claim the Mad Cow disease is caused by Indian animal feed imports; India rubbishes hypothesis

Mobocracy can’t be allowed in a democracy, says SC

The apex court asks the Parliament to draft a new legislation against lynching

India’s natural, organic farming strategy for rice and wheat

This can help in targeting global export market, thereby feeding the world population and getting valuable foreign exchange for the country

A lesson unlearnt

Belgium seems to pay little heed to the UK government's handling of the madcow disease

Bad drugs

The Europian Union votes to ban four widely-used antibiotics in animal feed