‘Art of Living to build biodiversity park on Yamuna floodplain’
New Delhi: Art of Living guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, under fire for organising a massive event on the Yamuna floodplain, today said his organisation will build a “biodiversity park” in that area and...
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Cloud hovers over Sri Sri’s mega event
New Delhi: The three-day World Culture Festival being hosted by the Art of Living Foundation’s spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is facing a clutch of uncertainties with authorities raising questions...
View ArticleOpposition criticises army use for Art of Living event
New Delhi: The opposition on Wednesday criticised the government in the Rajya Sabha for using army personnel for a three-day World Cultural Festival being organised by Art of Living on the Yamuna...
View ArticleWhy different rules for ‘ostensible God’: Manish Tewari
New Delhi: Taking a jibe at Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living World Culture Festival and the temporary structure on the Yamuna flood plain, Congress leader Manish Tewari said just because some...
View ArticleAppeal to all parties to not ‘politicize’ event: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
New Delhi: Asserting that the World Culture Festival being organised by the Art of Living foundation on the Yamuna floodplains was an event to unite everyone, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar appealed to all...
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Sri Sri event row: Don’t test our patience, says NGT to Centre
New Delhi – In a brand new hurdle for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living World Culture Festival in Delhi, the Water Resource Ministry today informed the National Green Tribune (NGT) that they have...
View ArticlePM Narendra Modi won’t miss Sri Sri show
New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee is skipping Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s mega cultural event on the banks of the Yamuna here, but not Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is to inaugurate the extravaganza...
View ArticleModi govt grilled for promoting spiritual gurus
New Delhi : The Opposition grilled the Modi Government in the Rajya Sabha for an hour on promoting the spiritual gurus and questioning the way it was helping out Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in organising a...
View ArticleDon’t mind going to jail if court wants: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
New Delhi: 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 TV channel if he would go to jail having...
View ArticlePay fine by 4 p.m. or we will revoke clearance: NGT tells Art of Living
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday said that if the Art of Living doesn’t pay the penalty of Rs. five crores to the DDA by 4 p.m. today, it could revoke clearance for the...
View ArticleFarmers suffer as Sri Sri event takes off!
New Delhi : The organisers of the sprawling World Culture Festival on the ecologically fragile Yamuna flood plain may boast a stage almost 100 feet tall and covering seven acres, but it does not please...
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Defiant Sri Sri won’t pay fine
PM to open mega cultural event Sri Sri Ravi Shankar declared he would prefer going to jail instead of paying the fine; Green Tribunal gives him another 24 hours to pay up. New Delhi: Prime Minister...
View ArticleNaidu bats for Sri Sri, says don’t ‘politicise’ mega event
New Delhi: Asserting that the World Culture Festival by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living will bring glory to India, Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday that the event...
View ArticleWe will pay Rs 5 crore fine: Art of Living to NGT
New Delhi: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AOL) foundation told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday that it needed a month’s time to pay the five-crore penalty as it was a charitable...
View ArticleSri Sri Event: NGT extends fine deadline, but rains frown
New Delhi – A green court here on Friday cleared the decks for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s controversial cultural festival and gave his foundation three more weeks to pay Rs.5 crore in damages for holding...
View ArticleSri Sri Ravi Shankar fumes but coughs up ‘fine
New Delhi : A welcome spell of rain arrived a short while before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to declare open the there-day World Cultural Festival organized by spiritual guru Sri Sri...
View ArticleChaos a blessing in disguise: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
New Delhi: Thinking, arguing and debating will certainly lead to something meaningful, if it is done with the right intentions, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of Art of Living Foundation, said here...
View ArticleOpposition’s criticism of World Culture Festival irrational BJP
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said the opposition’s criticism of the World Culture Festival is irrational and habitual. “The opposition is trying to make that into a political...
View ArticleCameron invites Sri Sri to House of Commons
New Delhi : World leaders on Sunday hailed Art of Living (AoL) and its founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for holding the World Culture Festival and invited him to their countries. British Prime Minister...
View ArticleSri Sri charlatan, show-off: Swaroopanand
BHOPAL : Launching a blistering attack on the Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Swami Swaroopananda Saraswati said that Sri Sri does not promote Indian culture. “He only teaches music which...
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