-India Today Farmers along the Yamuna have claimed that Sri Sri's Art of Living Foundation forcibly acquired land from them for an event at a low compensation. New Delhi: This comes not from areas like Beed or Vidarbha where distressed farmers commit suicide every year, but the National Capital Region itself. While a mega-show has been planned for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living (AOL) Foundation event in farmland along the...

-The Times of India New Delhi: In a verdict that may help lessen frequent conflicts over Parking in the city's residential societies, the Delhi high court on Wednesday ruled that a flat owner can park only one vehicle in a designated slot inside the complex unless granted exemption. The rules framed by a cooperative society would be final in this regard, the court said while fining a resident Rs 1 lakh...

-The Indian Express While Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands display high numbers of criminal activity, India stands with Yemen and Lebanon in the lower zone. Last month, when women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi was pushing through amendments to Juvenile Justice Act in Parliament that would lower the age of culpability as an adult from 18 to 16, she cited a rising number of crimes by juveniles. In the year...

-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: Your smartphone has one more job to do - spot and alert authorities with visual evidence of traffic violations. From next month, one can click photographs of traffic violators on their mobile phone and send it to the authorities using a special app that the Regional Transport Office (RTO), Bhubaneswar-II, has decided to come up with. The app will help residents here to directly report incidents of traffic violations to...

-The Indian Express   The odd-even car proposal is being enforced in Delhi without any evidence or cost-benefit analysis    Mahatma Gandhi had said, “Action in the absence of knowledge can be dangerous and worse than no action at all”. This sage advice is ignored by most Indians. In the face of a serious pollution problem prevalent in most Indian cities, especially the smaller towns, we pretend that it is only the people...