A 40-day pilgrimage is taking place in Indian-controlled Kashmir for the first time in the past three years. The Amarnath pilgrimage is expected to be the biggest in Jammu and Kashmir’s history, according to Apurva Chand, secretary at India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcastin
Tighter laws in several states ruled by Hindu nationalist governments to protect cows, which Hindus consider holy, have had a fallout: more than five million stray cows roam the countryside as farmers abandon aging animals which they once sold