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 ...

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 ...

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya emphasizes the importance of cows in Hindu tradition amidst criticism from Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati. The seer has criticized 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 ...

Indian Hindu devotees worship a cow to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami in Hyderabad. Hindus consider cows to be sacred animals and celebrate ‘Krishna Janmashtami’ every year to mark the birth of the ...

In India, Hindu nationalists have swept recent elections, and flush from victory, stand accused of using vigilantism to promote a Hindu way of life for all Indians. At a buffalo market outside the ...

TARANAGAR, India — 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.

Deborah Andrews’ mom always told her not to feed the strays, but she never listened. The little girl who took in cats, dogs and an array of reptiles now runs Daydream Rescue Sanctuary, a 52-acre ...