Tag: Beef

cow-trafficking
Sorry, BJP! There’s Nothing un-Hindu About Beef-eating

The BJP led NDA government at the Centre is currently celebrating three years of its coming to power. The Modi government believes it has a lot to celebrate about and has drawn up an extensive countrywide programme, primarily funded by Central PSUs as we now know, to trumpet them around for the people to know. […]

  • Thursday, 10 June 2021
cow slaughter
Nothing ‘Hindu’ About Crusade Against Beef

By Sandeep Sahu Years ago, while on a trip together to Manoharpur in Keonjhar district to report on the gruesome killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, an Australian journalist had asked this columnist a question that was as hard to answer then as it is now. “Why are you Indians so […]

  • Thursday, 10 June 2021
Mosquito-Malaria
Deforestation for coffee production ups malaria risk

Sydney: Researchers, including one of an Indian-origin, have estimated that 20 per cent of the malaria risk in deforestation hot spots is driven by the international trade of exports including coffee, cocoa, palm oil, tobacco, beef and cotton. Previous studies have shown deforestation and rainforest disturbances can increase the transmission of malaria by creating conditions […]

  • Monday, 19 April 2021
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