Jain Festival

Meat ban can't be 'forced down throats of people': SC rejects plea against Bombay HC order

Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea against a Bombay High Court order staying the decision to ban sale of meat in Mumbai.

MNS workers put up non-veg food stall outside Jain society in Mumbai to protest against meat ban

Activists of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Sunday put up a non-veg food stall outside a Jain-dominated housing society in Mumbai.

Now meat ban reaches Ludhiana, one-day prohibition imposed during Jain festival

A one-day ban has been imposed on the sale of non-vegetarian items during Jain festival 'Samvatsari' on 17 September in the jurisdiction of Ludhiana Police Commissionerate.

As meat ban controversy rages in Mumbai, prohibition fever spreads to J&K, Rajasthan, Ahmedabad

The fever of banning meat and beef spread on Thursday with such directives being issued in Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir and Ahmedabad even as controversy continued to rage in Mumbai where the High Court ruled that a prohibition on sale of meat is not feasible.

After Maharashtra, it's Rajasthan and J&K: As row continues, states ban sale of meat for 3 days

After Maharashtra, a ban on sale of meat and fish has been ordered in Rajasthan for three days this month in view of Jain festivals, even as the row over such a directive continued in Mumbai where ruling BJP's ally Shiv Sena and opposition MNS hit the streets to protest.