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Art of Living event: Delhi Police prepares status report; steps up security

Security arrangements for the event were heightened, all 11 police districts and several specialised units were roped in

World Culture Festival: Swaraj Abhiyan slams Centre, Delhi govt

Prashant Bhushan accused both the govts of violating all norms and said that there is no fire clearance for the event

Art of Living has time till tomorrow to pay Rs 5 crore fine: NGT

The tribunal had earlier directed the Art of Living Foundation to pay the fine by 4 pm

Festival on Yamuna banks an ecological disaster, says HC

Taking note of news reports on the Art of Living event to take place on the banks of Yamuna, Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it appears to be a "disaster" from the "ecological point of view". "That (AOL event) is a disaster from ecological point of view due to removal of the shrubs and trees.You (government) have given permission for a big pandal on the flood plain," the Bench said.of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva said, adding, "we are only going by newspaper reports".

Opposition criticises army use for Art of Living event

MoS for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that army deployment was from security point of view.

Art of Living fest: NGT questions Centre over clearances

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday asked the environment ministry to tell in a day why environmental clearance was not required for building temporary structures in floodplains.The question from the court came on a day it probed the clearances to the Art of Living's three-day World Culture Festival on March 11-13 at the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi, which was earlier earmarked by the courts for ecological restoration. None of the authorities accepted responsibility for giving permission to the army to build a pontoon bridge on the river for the event. This only added to the controversy over how the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had given permission to the event after thrice rejecting it and eventually marking a copy of the permission to Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu's principle secretary.It is not known if the urban development minister's office had intervened in the matter but the chief engineer of DDA is not mandated to send copies of such permissions to the

Didn't conduct any environment impact study, Art of Living tells NGT

Lawyer of the Art of Living Foundation said that they did not carry out a study because Environment Ministry did not ask for it