Rs 120-cr fine on AOL’s World Culture Fest ‘ad hoc, unscientific’: Bureaucrat – Firstpost
A confidential letter by a top bureaucrat has triggered a new controversy in the Art of Living (AOL) case over allegations that its festival had damaged the Yamuna floodplains. Shashi Shekhar, secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, wrote to Justice Swatanter Kumar, chairperson of the National Green Tribunal More...
AP government flouts its own order on protection of temple lands – The New Indian Express
The government last year ordered all departments not to permit any lands belonging to temples. There have been several instances of goernment flouting its own rule and alloting temple lands. Officials of the Endowments More...
Centre kicks-off ambitious project to trace origins of lost Saraswati river : India Today
SARASWATI HERITAGE PROJECT The ‘Saraswati Heritage Project’ was taken up by the Government of India (GOI) to reconnect with the historical, cultural and religious past of the country. The first meeting More...
WATCH: How Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev Pulled Off A Beckham In Delhi
ads_sharebox_260x60 Its true! Baba Ramdev can do anything. Yoga, politics, business, entertainment — with the Baba having shown his skills in all these realms, could sports have been far behind. It was that More...
Hindus perform annual ceremony on erupting Mount Bromo – Al Jazeera English
An erupting volcano has not prevented Tenggerese people from performing their annual ceremony, which involves climbing to the rim of Mount Bromo’s crater and delivering offerings like goats, chicken, and More...
Enough of this ‘secular’ stuff, proclaim India a Hindu state: Shiv Sena | The Indian Express
Wondering how long attacks on the security forces will go on in Kashmir, Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday demanded that India be proclaimed a ‘Hindu state’. “We have to decide now enough of More...
Communal violence in Aligarh after miscreants of different community pulled sari of 19-year-old Hindu woman? | Zee News
That too, more or less for the same reason as Hindu families want to leave the area as they feel they are not safe here. A molestation incident in Aligarh’s Babri Mandi area has triggered a communal unrest More...
From the mountains, Ganga descends in a bottle via Speed Post | The Indian Express
Tucked away in a corner of the Sansad Marg Head Post Office in Delhi, a well-lit, unpretentious room serves as a walk-in retail point for the Ganga in a bottle. On a small glass shelf stand two plastic bottles More...
Around 1,900 BSF men begin yoga session at Baba Ramdev’s Haridwar facility | The Indian Express
At least 1,900 personnel from country’s largest border guarding force BSF on Saturday began a special yoga training under the tutelage of Baba Ramdev at his facility in Haridwar. The session will go on for More...
Newly married Hindu woman allegedly molested by four youths in Aligarh |NewsX
Aligarh: A 19-year-old newly married Hindu woman was allegedly molested by four Muslim youth on Wednesday night which was followed by a clash between the two communities. More than 27 families put a sale sign More...