Held every five years in the Bara district of Nepal, Gadhimai is the world’s largest animal sacrifice event, where around 5 lakh animals, including buffalo, goats, pigs, pigeons and chickens ...

This year, Nepal’s vice president even led the inauguration of the festival, which advocates had requested he not take part in. “Gadhimai is infamous for animal cruelty and human exploitation ...

But on Tuesday, the Gadhimai festival began with the killing of a goat, rat, chicken, pig and pigeon. According to animal activists who travelled to a remote corner of Nepal for the festival ...

Thousands of creatures were set to be killed over the two day Gadhimai Festival in Nepal. [AFP] The stench of raw meat hung in the air and pools of blood dotted the muddy ground on Tuesday as what ...

At least 4,200 buffaloes and thousands of goats and pigeons were killed during a mass sacrifice held as part of the Gadhimai festival, in Bariyarpur village near the Nepal- India border ...

It is, perhaps, the largest ritual animal sacrifice in the world. And some animal welfare activists in Nepal are working to stop it. As preparations for the 2009 Gadhimai Festival gathered steam, ...

Minister for Home Affairs Ramesh Lekhak on Wednesday awarded Deputy Inspector General Ganesh Bahadur Thada Magar, commander of APF Nepal No. 3 Gadhimai Battalion Headquarters in Makwanpur for its ...