Melbourne, March 24 : A small country school in Australia’s New South Wales, owned by the spiritual sect of Ananda Marga, is teaching its pupils the philosophy of strict yogic vegetarianism and neo-humanism.
Ananda Marga, the sect that was widely blamed for the 1977 Hilton Hotel bombing, but denied responsibility, bases its ideology on neo-humanism - the theory that total human development can only be achieved through both personal development, and social service to the community.
And children at Vistara Primary School, at Richmond Hill, Lismore are being given lessons that are a little different from the mainstream education.
New Delhi, Mar. 24 : A Delhi Court today awarded life imprisonment to former Haryana cadre IPS officer R K Sharma and three others, who were convicted in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case.
Last week, the court had held R K Sharma alongwith three others -- Pradeep Sharma, Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash -- for murdering the Indian Express journalist at her East-Delhi flat on January 23 1999.
Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri had pronounced them guilty under Section 302 (murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.