-The Indian Express Alleged irregularities have been found in the labelling of some of the food products marketed by Yoga guru Ramdev's Divya Yog Mandir Trust, Haridwar District Magistrate Sachin Kurve said on Wednesday. Citing a report of Rudrapur-based Food and Drug Testing Laboratory in this regard, he said irregularities have been found in the labelling of six food products marketed by the Trust. The alleged regulatory violations by the Trust have been...
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72% of Indian urbanites heart-unhealthy
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Good cholesterol spells bad news for Mumbaikars. A new survey analyzing risk factors for heart diseases among Indians shows that 54% of Mumbaikars over 30 have low levels of good cholesterol, better known as HDL. Since HDL draws out the body's excess fatty cholesterol molecules and ejects them through the liver, Mumbaikars have a reason to worry. But it isn't only Mumbai. The survey found that across...
More »I-T dept to cancel ‘charitable’ status of Ramdev trust, withdraw exemptions -Ritu Sarin
-The Indian Express The Income-Tax department is set to cancel the registration of Yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s trust as a charitable organisation and withdraw all exemptions provided to it. This follows a final order passed on August 24 by the Income-Tax (exemption) unit in the case of his principal charitable organisation, the Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust, for the year 2009-10, after a scrutiny revealed that it was involved in a host of...
More »How can judiciary enforce right to sleep? CJI asks -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India Chief Justice of India (CJI) SH Kapadia on Saturday said the Supreme Court might have overstretched the human rights jurisprudence to include right to sleep in the bouquet of fundamental rights, as enforcing such a right would be very difficult. The CJI, who was delivering a lecture, also seemed critical of the civil society activists for questioning the authority of Parliament to make laws and by draping themselves...
More »Food Department Officials Raid Ramdev’s Ashram
-PTI Officials of Uttarakhand Food Department today carried out raids on the premises of Divya Yog ashram of Yoga guru Ramdev and collected samples of various ayurvedic medicines. The food department officials collected samples of honey, salt, gram floor among other things from the ashram during the nearly 3-hour raid. The raids were criticised by Ramdev who alleged the action was taken at the behest of the Centre. "This is war between the elite...
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