Goa is facing the possibility of a beef shortage as meat traders have gone on strike to protest against increasing harassment by cow vigilante groups. The strike, initiated by the Quraishi Meat Traders Association, began on Monday, with traders demanding government protection after a series of attacks on shops selling beef legally. Here are the key points: Strike Against Harassment: …
A loudspeaker perched atop an auto-rickshaw in Nuh announces on the loop that soon there will be an end to “terror of cow vigilantes”, claiming that the Congress is coming to power in Haryana after a decade. Khan was arrested on September 14 last year on charges of spreading fake news related to communal riots in Nuh the previous month, …
The rally is yet to begin, but the sabzi mandi ground in Alwar is buzzing; men in motorcycles with Bharatiya Janata Party flags tied to their rearview mirrors arrive in raucous droves; organisers mill around the dais, asking the teeming crowd to take their seats; and the occasional slogan rents the air. Once the dust settles, and people begin to …
The Haryana government last week directed local administrations to set up special committees for cow protection and promised to crack down on private cow vigilante groups. The move came after this newspaper reported how lack of enforcement of a section of the Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act, 2015, and the failure of the state government to set up district cow …