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Dozens of exuberant villagers scoop up handfuls of cow dung this week for the Gorehabba festival, a local conclusion to India's most important festival, Diwali. The festival is unique to a village where locals believe their god -- Beereshwara Swamy -- was born in cow excrement. Some Hindus believe cows and everything they produce is sacred and purifying.
Maharashtra-based Cowpathy produces a range of beauty and health products which boast about the fact that their products are made from the five elements produced from cows: milk, curds, ghee, cow urine, and cow excrement. The company's products range from soap, to toothpaste, essential oils and incense, and nearly all of the products contain some material or obtained from cows.
Indian vets extract 71 kilograms (156.5 pounds) of plastic, nails and other garbage from a pregnant cow, but both the animal and her baby died. An estimated five million cows roam India's cities, with many gorging on the vast amounts of plastic litter on the streets.
On a regular day, Parminder Kaur toils in the fields and tends to cattle but now she is making her presence count as one among an army of women who have taken up the cudgels against the Indian government's agricultural reforms. Kaur, 40, is joined by tens of thousands of protesting male farmers who have set up tents and parked their tractor trolleys to block several kilometres of key highways leading into capital New Delhi for over a month.
Prague, Sep 30 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Martin Divisek) From members of the electoral committee wearing protective suits to voting from the car, these are some of the measures launched on Wednesday in the Czech Republic to prevent coronavirus infections and to promote participation in the regional and Senate elections scheduled for October 2 and 3 throughout the country.FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE VOTING FROM THEIR CAR IN PRAGUE.
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