Don’t mind going to jail if court wants: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday said he does not mind going to jail if the court wants him to. Asked during an interview by a…
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Nualgi: A wonder product to save polluted Bengaluru lake
By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, March 10 (IANS) A novel product developed by Nualgi Nano Biotech (NNB), a low-profile biotech company here, is helping clean up sewage-polluted Ulsoor Lake where thousands of fish were found dead…
Sunny Thursday morning in Delhi
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Thursday morning started on a sunny note in the national capital with the maximum temperature recorded 15.8 degrees celsius, two notches above the season’s average. Met has forecast partly cloudy…
Heavy rains forecast in Kashmir for three days
Srinagar, March 10 (IANS) The local weather department on Thursday forecast heavy rains in plains and snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir Valley during the next three days. The forecast has triggered panic as heavy…
US auction house official guilty of smuggling ivory, rhino horn
Washington, March 10 (IANS) An official of a California-based auction house pleaded guilty of smuggling carvings and other items made from protected wildlife worth $1 million. Joseph Chait, a senior auction administrator of the I.M….
Art of Living slapped Rs.5 crore ‘green’ fine, but event on
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…
Delhi braces up for mega AOL event, despite opposition
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…
Art of Living slapped Rs.5 crore ‘green’ fine but event is on
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…
Army’s use for private function wrong: Bihar CM
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…
End row over Art of Living event: Kejriwal
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…
AOL event near Yamuna ‘disaster’: Delhi HC
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…
NGT slaps Rs.5 crore fine on AoL, allows event to go ahead
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…
No role of Water ministry in Art of Living event: Uma
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…
NGT doesn’t stay AoL event, slaps fine
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…
No NGT stay on AoL event
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…
Common Bluebottles butterfly has 15 classes of light-detecting cells
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….
Evolution from fins to legs didn’t trigger much anatomical change
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,…
2,561 people still missing five years after Japan quake
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…
Japan felt over 12,000 aftershocks since 2011 quake
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…
Opposition raises stink over Sri Sri’s Yamuna event
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…