BHUBANESWAR: The enforcement directorate on Thursday attached properties to the tune of Rs 14.95 crore of astrologer Surendra Mishra, aka Sura Baba and his Trahi Achyuta Ashram on the city outskirts. Sura Baba and his two sons Trilochan and Biranchi were arrested by the commissionerate police on August 31, 2015 for allegedly assaulting a lower caste man and cheating people by claiming himself as a god-man. "We were probing the financial irregularity into the case. The attached assets included Rs 2.35 crore bank balance in names of Sura Baba and his two sons and the Ashram property worth nearly Rs 14.95 crore," said an ED officer. Trahi Achyuta Nagar, popularly known as Trahi Achyuta Ashram near Balianta once epitomized a classic beauty, standing unparalleled anywhere in the state. Set up in 1983 at Jhinti village, nearly 30 km from the state capital, the Ashram has a well planned residential colony, temples, sprawling water body, toy train, dispensary, nationalized bank, post office, clean and spacious roads and vast patches of green fields, spread over 20 acre. The tranquil and picturesque ambience stood shattered on August 30, 2015 when some local residents went on a rampage in the Ashram branding Sura Baba a fraud. The government recently pulled down portions of the Ashram saying the constructions came up illegally on government land.

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Indore: A three-day art and craft exhibition, art by heart, and three live demos have been organised on the theme of women empowerment by Saket-based art and craft institute, Kala Ashram, from Friday at Pritamlal Dua auditorium.

Kala Ashram director Sapna Jain informed that 60 art and crafts done by 25 women would be put up in the exhibition. The highlight of the exhibition is the three live demos for students which are free of cost. State level award winner Santosh Prajapati would give pointers on a potters wheel, Naushad will teach nuances of block printing and sculptor Thakre would shed light on making of statues.

Notable artist Shobha Vaidya and social worker Jagdish Shah would inaugurate the exhibition at 11.30 am. The concluding function on April 2 would feature a musical performance by artist Anand Chandreshi from Bhopal and his R K Event Group.

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Mitra Milan culminates in Ugadi fete at ashram The Hindu Ugadi was celebrated in a traditional manner, including a havan, at Kala Ashram here on Wednesday. The participants of the three day Mitra Milan programme here got to taste the Ugadi pachhadi and other aspects of the Telugu New Year celebration.

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Bhatkal 28 March 2017: A student of Anand Ashram Convent School Bhatkal today succumbed to the injuries which he sustained a day before, due an explosion caused by the gas leakage from an Geyser at his house.

The victim has been identified as Mranal Shetty, an class 10th student of Anand Ashram School. Mranal was admitted in an private hospital in Mangalore where he breathed his last today morning.

Sources close to the family reported that Mranal, yesterday was trying to switch on the Geyser at his home, and after several unsuccessful attempt he complained his parents about the Geyser not switching on. By the time his parents came in to try their hands to switch the Geyser on, it had already leaked enough gas to explode and injured all three of them.

All three injured were rushed to Mangalore hospital, where Mranal eventually succumbed to his injuries.

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All set for Mitra Milan at Kala Ashram The Hindu The three-day annual Ugadi Mitra Milan is all set to start on Monday at Kala Ashram as participants have started arriving from all corners of the country. The Mitra Milan is a platform for informal discussions between experts in the fields of ...

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Dhenkanal: The yearly grand festival of Sri Guru Anant Ashram Jatiya Sarbodaya Samiti was celebrated with great pleasure & merry making at its State head office Banasing, 22 km from Dhenkanal town. In this great occasion, thousands of devotees from hundreds of Branch ashrams in all the districts of the state took part.

Yesterday at 4 PM all the devotees organize a grand spiritual procession through the nearby villages against untouchable disease of the society.

Then, at 7 PM, Pancharangi Pataka Uttolan was done followed by Brahma Jagnya, which has been organized each year on MAGHA MASA SUKLA PAKHYA BARAH DWADASI for World Peace ( Biswa Santi ).

At 10 pm, a General Body meeting followed by Elections for State Committee was conducted by the State Chief Advisor Er. Debashisha Hota.

Sri Basant Pattayat of Cuttack Adaspur Ashram became State President, Sri Bijay Mohapatra of Khordha BhagabatiPatana Balugan became State Secretary and Sri Kamakhya Prasad Hota of Dhenkanal Parikheda became State Treasurer.

51 Member State Executive Body Elected for 3 years Comprising All Regions of the State. They are namely, Samant Ghanashyam Das, Ramachandra Maharana, Dr. Maheswar Swain, Govind Chandra Mallick, Jaladhar Rout, Muralidhar Sahu, Bhikari Charan Behera, Kartik Jena, Madhav Bala, Pramod Kumar Sahoo, Nilamani Behera, Nilamani Kabi, Pitambar Jena, Dillip Samal, Chaitanya Rout, Chakradhar Sandha, Gobardhan Parida, Sudhakar Sahu, Prabhakar Pradhan, Bhagaban Rout, Swarnaprava Parida, Nrupati Behera, Sandhyarani Behera, Kukuni Pradhan, Bilasi Pradhan, Amari Dehury, Kabita Dehury, Arun Mallick, Udhhab Sahoo, Murali Naik, Paramananda Sahoo, Dambarudhar Bhoi, Smt. Basanti Sahoo, Sachhidananda Nayak, Duryodhan Naik, Ramachandra Bhoi, Harischandra Mallick, Bhramar Behera, Nabakishore Behera, Dhaneswar Rout, Pramod Naik, Dambarudhar Naik, Mathura Naik, Surath Naik, Pramodini Didi, Benudhar Naik, Rabi Naik, Bharat Dehury, Joginath Naik, Ranjan Lenka, Duryodhan Naik and Basant Naik.

Its here noteworthy that, the Great Sadguru Satyabadi Satapathy of Banasing inspired by Sarboday movement of Gandhijee spread One Letter Almighty Principle (ANAKHYARA MATABADA) in all over the state of Odisha having 75 thousand disciples with 220 ashrams. He also tried to eradicate the untouchable disease of the society. For this act of Him, He faced many problems in His personal & spiritual life by the then kings & leaders of the society.

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If you visit the temple village of Kavlem, near Ponda it is easy to miss the Balika Kalyan Ashram, the girls orphanage ensconced in one of its by lanes. However, this small and compact building is home to 60 orphan and destitute girls who are being looked after with much love and care.

Started in 1976 by the Ponda based Matruchaya Trust, the ashram has flowered into a wonderful home for girls. At this moment, there are seven girls in the 0-4 age category, with most being eligible for adoption under the Central Adoption Resource Authority (Cara) guidelines. A maximum number of 50 girls are in the class V-X category, eight girls will appear for the SSC examinations very soon, while two girls have just completed their HSSC examinations. Two older girls are pursuing their undergraduate studies in the arts and commerce streams respectively.

Walking with Mandakini Patil, the jovial superintendent through the ashram, one realizes how neat and clean the surroundings are. The 60 girls have been formed into six teams of ten girls each. Each team has a team leader. The girls have been taught to sweep and swab the floor and maintain cleanliness in their respective staying quarters, the ashram lobbies and staircases. The girls wash their own clothes and utensils too. We believe in making the girls completely self-reliant. It is good training for their adult life, Patil said.

The little girls are being trained in Indian customs and tradition too. It was refreshing to see a girl greet you with a namaste after serving you tea. A regular day at the ashram begins at 5am. The girls have an exercise and pranayama class between 6am-6:30am, followed by their daily cleaning schedule between 6:30am-7am and breakfast between 7am-7:30am followed by school. The post-school lunch is between 2pm-2:30pm followed by tuitions and play time. Every Wednesday sees a team of lady doctors visit the ashram to check on the health of the girls. According to Patil, the Ponda district hospital is their port of call for medical emergencies.

A team of teachers visits the ashram every afternoon to tutor the girls in the various school subjects. It was also heartening to see a special computer room in the ashram where two teachers teach the girls computer skills. IT teacher Sneha Sawant said, We teach the girls MS Office and many of the girls have become proficient in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint operations. The girls are very sharp and intelligent.

There is also an emphasis on sport and extra-curricular activities at the ashram. The girls are taught classical Indian music and have also been introduced to the pakhwaj, the ancient Indian percussion instrument. Chess is the number one sport at the ashram with many of the girls regularly representing their school in local chess tournaments. Regular classes are held for tailoring, fabric painting and knitting. The girls are also adept at rangolli art and some of the exhibits made by the girls are breathtakingly beautiful.

Interestingly, the children are not allowed to watch television except on the weekend, so that the focus remains on studies and sport. In a state like Goa, where garbage management is a serious challenge, it is good to know that the ashram composts their wet garbage every day and gives their dry garbage to the Kavlem Panchayat on a regular basis.

Our girls manage the wet composting unit thereby learning important environmental lessons early in life, Patil said.

Every attempt has also been made to make the ashram very homely. According to Nilima Kamat, honorary secretary, Matruchaya Trust, the children are encouraged to address all their care-givers as Tai (Sister) and Dada (Brother), so that the feeling of family is uppermost on their minds.

Typically, the ashram educates the girls up to college and helps get them married to eligible boys. A marriage of one of our girls is a very happy moment for all of us. Many of the girls continue visiting the ashram with their own children. They treat the ashram like a Maher-ghar (mothers home). Patil said.

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His politics is exclusively fire and brimstone variety. But Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has a softer side too.

The 44-year-old monk is also an animal lover. And his compassion for animals goes beyond cows of which he has around 500 in a cow shelter in the Gorakhnath temple where he is also the head priest.

While his daily schedule has changed following his appointment as chief minister, Adityanath had a gruelling time table as head priest in Gorakhpur.

He (Adityanath) gets up at 3 am. After yoga and daily prayers, he feeds the cows at his gaushala. He takes his breakfast only after feeding the cows, said a close associate.

The gaushala is set up across two acres of land on the temple premises. Several volunteers every day tend to the 500-plus cows at the shelter.

Yogiji likes my dedication towards the service of cows, including Nandini, his favourite one. Yogiji doesnt take his breakfast till he himself feeds the cows, Man Mohamed, the only Muslim volunteer at the shelter told HT.

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While Adityanaths love for cows is well known, he is also a pet lover and has a number of animals on the Gorakhnath temple premises, including a dog, a cat, a deer and some monkeys.

His dog named Kallu roams the temple premises all day. When Adityanath is in Gorakhpur, he spends time with Kallu after completing his daily chores and political meetings.

In the morning, he also feeds the monkeys which have made the temple their home.

Recently a photo of Yogi feeding milk to a tiger cub went viral on social media.

His aides in the Gorakhnath temple said the cub was found roaming near an ashram in Tulsipur, in Balrampur district near the India-Nepal border, about 150 km from Gorakhpur. The cub was kept in the ashram for a few months and later handed over to the forest department for rehabilitation. Adityanath used to feed the cub with a milk bottle whenever he visited the ashram, they said.

He used to also feed the deer and antelopes that roamed around the ashram near Tuthibari in Maharajganj district, 100 km from Gorakhpur. The ashram is sandwiched between Sohagibarwa Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharajganj and Chitwan National Park in Nepal.

Adityanath feeds cows at the gaushala in Gorakhpur. (HTFile Photo)

The Gorakhnath Temple Trust has also set up an ashram in Nawal Parasi district across the border in Nepal which Aditya Nath sometimes visits.

In the late 1990s, a young Adityanath had galvanized Tharu and Vantongiyas tribals, settled in the bordering districts of Balrampur, Lakhimpur, Siddharthnagar and Maharajganj to launch a movement against poachers in the forest areas of Nepal and UP.

His love for trees has turned the Gorakhnath temple into an oasis in a concrete jungle. His supporters call him a green saint who has planted a number of saplings of peepal, mango, banyan and Ashoka around the residential complex located on the temple premises.

Adityanath is also said to have planted a number of aromatic and medicinal plants in an area between the temple and the cow shelter.

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Tribal girl found dead in State-run Ashram school The Hindu The body of a nine-year-old tribal girl, a student of a State-run primary Ashram school in Odisha's Kandhamal district, was found hanging in a hostel room, the police said on Friday. The victim was a student of Class III of the school at Belpadar, run ...

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Body of a nine-year-old tribal girl, a student of a state-run primary Ashram school in Odisha's Kandhamal district was found hanging in a hostel room, police said today.

The victim was a student of class three of the school at Belpadar, run by Tribal and Rural Development department of the state.

The girl died under mysterious circumstances as she allegedly hanged herself by using a bedsheet, said Ganeswar Bharimala, the District Welfare Officer (DWO), Kandhamal.

The victim was identified as Tulasha Kanhar, a tribal girl, who had appeared for her drawing examination earlier in the morning.

The girl was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) at Phulbani where doctors decalred her brought dead.

Sarojini Swain her class teacher said, "There was no apparent reason on her part to take such an extreme step. We are surprised."

The girl's father, this afternoon, lodged an FIR with the Phulbani Sadar police station alleging murder of his daughter and demanded an impartial investigation.

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