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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living festival: Yamuna will take 10 years to recover at Rs 13.29 cr
• 8 years agoRehabilitation of Yamuna floodplains, "destroyed" due to a cultural extravaganza organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living (AOL), will cost Rs 13.29 crore and take almost 10 years, an expert committee has told the National Green Tribunal.
Sri Sri's Art of Living event completely destroyed Yamuna floodplains: Expert committee tells NGT
• 9 years agoThe 'World Culture Festival' extravaganza organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living (AOL) on Yamuna has "completely destroyed" the riverbed.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar calls NGT panel 'blind and biased': Decoding the role of green tribunal
Debobrat Ghose • 9 years agoThe founder of Art of Living (AOL) Foundation Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday termed the expert committee of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) as "blind and biased".
Rs 120-cr fine on AoL's World Culture Fest 'ad hoc, unscientific': Bureaucrat
Shantanu Guha Ray • 9 years agoA 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.
We haven't damaged Yamuna floodplains ecology: Art of Living Foundation
Ians • 9 years agoThe Art of Living Foundation said it has paid the Rs 5-crore compensation imposed by the NGT but maintained it did not cause any damage to the Yamuna floodplains
World Culture Festival: AOL pays Rs 4.75 crore compensation for damaging Yamuna
• 9 years agoThe Art of Living foundation has deposited Rs 4.75 crore as "environment compensation" with the Delhi Development Authority for damaging the Yamuna during the World Culture Festival
Happy birthday Sri Sri: Will his sixties include a Nobel Peace Prize (that he'll decline)?
Fp Special Forces • 9 years agoIt's Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's birthday today. And here is why the spiritual leader will win a Nobel Peace Prize, whether he likes it or not.
World Culture Festival: Sri Sri served with two contempt notices for violating NGT orders
Ians • 9 years agoSri Sri Ravi Shankar was served with two contempt notices for violating the orders of the National Green Tribunal with regard to the World Culture Festival
Contempt suit against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for 'disrespect' to NGT
Ians • 9 years agoWith his Art of Living (AoL) Foundation yet to pay the major chunk of "environment compensation" for its cultural fest on the Yamuna floodplains, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been slapped with a contempt suit for "alleged disrespect shown by him to the orders of National Green Tribunal (NGT)".
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says Malala did not deserve Nobel Prize
Fp Staff • 9 years agoSri Sri Ravi Shankar took the meaning of putting your foot in your mouth to an entirely new level when he said that Malala did not deserve the Nobel Prize.