Mumbai: As the Gadhimai Festival comes to an end, animal activists save over 700 animals from being slaughtered at the world’s largest animal sacrifice festival. However as thousands of animals were ...

Ahead of the Gadhimai festival, animal protection organizations Humane Society International/India and People For Animals are urging devotees not to bring animals for sacrifice. HSI/India and PFA have ...

On 28 November the eyes of the world will once more turn to Nepal for all the wrong reasons. A temple enclosure in a small, obscure village in the Tarai will once more make headlines with gruesome ...

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