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Acharya Ratnanada,father of Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,passed away.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankars father passes away

BANGALORE: Acharya Ratnanada,father of Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,passed away in the early hours of Wednesday. He was the pioneer of VISTA Value Integrated Services to All India,a charitable trust engaged in uplift of poor rural women and children in Karnataka,and the Ved Vignan Maha Vidyapeeth,an educational and charitable trust that operates over 150 free schools in some of Indias remotest tribal villages.

5 of family killed in road accident

PUNJAB: Five members,including 2 children,of a family were killed and three others injured when the driver members lost control over the car while negotiating a U-turn and it hit a motorcycle and then collided with a truck,police said. The incident occurred on the Moga-Amritsar road on Wednesday,police said.

IAF gets upgraded airlift aircraft

NEW DELHI: The IAF has inducted four upgraded AN 32 transport aircraft giving a fresh lease of life to the fleet of tactical air-lifters. The aircraft,considered the backbone of the air forces transport fleet,are vital to maintain the Indian Army operations on the frontiers. The re-equipped AN-32 RE aircraft will fulfill tactical transport requirements of the IAF up to and beyond 2025, Air Officer-in-charge Maintenance Air Marshal Joseph Neri said.

Newly elected mukhiya murdered

MADHEPURA: A newly-elected mukhiya died after his vital organs were chopped off at the Raghunathpur panchayat and his body thrown away on NH-107 on Wednesday. Shivnandan Mandal was yet to take oath,Superintendent of Police,Varun Kumar Sinha said. The victims kin have lodged a named FIR against 8 people,he said,adding that while this appeared to be a case of political rivalry,the motive was still being investigated.

Teacher battered with stones,killed

SASARAM: A lady teacher was battered to death by unidentified assailants near Amwalia village in Bihar on Wednesday. The victim,Sangita Devi,was returning home after teaching,on Tuesday evening when the assailants intercepted her and hit her several times with heavy stones,Sasaram Deputy Superintendent of Police Vishwajeet Dayal said. Her body was found lying roadside. The motive behind the murder is still under investigation,said Dayal.

Cloudburst in Jamp;K,six missing

JAMMU: Nearly six people were missing and nearly a dozen roadside khokhas washed away in flash floods which had been triggered by a cloud burst at Baggar in the hilly Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir . Though the damage was being ascertained,Dodas Superintendent of Police,Arif Rishu said nearly a dozen khokhas on the sides of a drain had washed away,while four dhabas were extensively damaged.