An Indian teacher coated a classroom with cow dung 'to keep cool', with many locals believing the excrement is sacred. Pratyush Vatsala, the principal of Delhi University's Lakshmibai College, had ...

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.

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 ...

A campaign encouraging Indian citizens to 'hug a cow' instead of celebrating Valentine's Day was called off on Friday.

The declaration of February 14 as “Cow Hug Day,” had come in a statement Monday from the Animal Welfare Board of India, which called cows the “backbone of Indian culture and rural economy ...

Storm chasers captured dramatic footage of the Elmer tornado, which swirled violently just a few hundred yards from a field of cows.

A photography project which shows women wearing a cow mask and asks the politically explosive question - whether women are less important than cattle in India - has gone viral in the country and ...

FILE- A woman worships a cow as Indian Hindus offer prayers to the River Ganges, holy to them during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Allahabad, India, June 8, 2014. India’s government-run animal ...

For centuries, cows have been considered sacred by India’s majority Hindu population, a symbol of both the Earth and the divine.