New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Faulting every concerned government agency over a cultural event on the fragile banks of Yamuna this weekend, a green court has slapped a Rs.5 crore fine on its organisers, Sri…
New Delhi: Preparations for spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s World Culture Festival underway in New Delhi on March 9, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) As one looks from the Delhi Noida…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Faulting every concerned government agency over a cultural event to be held on the fragile banks of Yamuna this weekend, a green court has slapped a Rs.5-crore fine on its…
Patna, March 9 (IANS) The use of army personnel for a private or a non-governmental organisation’s event, like the mega cultural show of the Art of Living Foundation in Delhi, is a wrong precedent, Bihar…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday the controversies over spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AoL) event should now end. ”Now that NGT (National Green…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi High Court on Wednesday said holding the World Culture Festival on the Yamuna flood plain appears to be a disaster from the ecological point of view. “It’s (event) a…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday slapped an initial fine of Rs.5 crore on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar-led Art of Living foundation, but declined to stay the holding of the…
Bhopal: Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti during a press conference in Bhopal on Feb 5, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Union Water Resources Minister Uma…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday did not stay spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living to hold the World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains but…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday did not stay spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living’s World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains but slapped an initial…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Japanese researchers have discovered that a species of swallowtail butterfly from Australasia has at least 15 different classes of light-detecting cells comparable to the rods and cones in the human eye….
London, March 9 (IANS) Overturning long held views that the origin of vertebrates with legs triggered an increase in the anatomical diversity of their skeletons, new research has found that limbs of the earliest vertebrates,…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) As many as 2,561 people remain missing five years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, the National Police Agency said. Based on data compiled as…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Over 12,000 aftershocks were felt in the coastal areas of Japan since a powerful earthquake struck the region in March 2011, the Meteorological Agency said. Quakes that are considered aftershocks of…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Clamor grew louder on Wednesday against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s cultural mega-extravaganza on the ecologically sensitive Yamuna floodplains with the opposition questioning how the government deployed the Indian Army to…
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, March 9 (IANS) Hundreds of migratory birds are bidding an early adieu to Kashmir this year because of unusually hot temperatures and scant rain and snowfall. “Normally, the migration back to…
Sydney, March 9 (IANS) Humans have triggered the past record-breaking hot years experienced on the Earth since 1930s, says a study that suggests that without human-induced climate change, recent hot summers and years would not…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The national capital experienced shallow fog on Wednesday morning, with the minimum temperature settling at 19.2 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain clear in the day…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Even as controversy rages over the decision by Art of Living to hold a cultural mega-event on the Yamuna floodplain, founder of the educational and humanitarian movement Sri Sri Ravi…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) India will witness a solar eclipse on Wednesday morning, the first in 2016 but it will only be briefly visible in the national capital, said the IMD. “The solar eclipse…