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Indian guru's hoarded riches raise doubts over charitable works

The film actress Goldie Hawn has visited his religious centre or ashram at least three times and donated tens of thousands of dollars to his projects; the Duchess of York paid a call after her marriage broke up; while the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who gave £40,000 for a statue of the guru, and a myriad of Indian politicians and Bollywood stars claimed inspiration from his message of putting service above self.

Sai Baba’s sprawling, non-denominational ashram in the town of Puttaparthi in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh was a beacon for Indians and westerners seeking spiritual enlightenment, no matter what their original religion - which the guru said they could maintain.

Now, though, it is riven by scandal: the guru’s closest aides have turned on each other, there are claims of death threats being made, and the police have been called in.

The edifice began to crumble when members of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, which runs the ashram, a religious centre, decided that speculation about what might be inside the guru’s private chambers was getting out of hand. The rooms had lain apparently untouched since the 84-year-old spiritual leader was taken ill in March.

The Trust decided to open the rooms, but with caution: the police were kept at a distance and the media were locked out. A select group assembled, including the controversial figure of Satyajit, Sai Baba’s carer, apparently the only person who could penetrate the chambers’ elaborate security. They took the lift to the first floor, opened the door and stepped inside.

What they found made even the wildest rumours seem tame: stacked around the room were piles of gold, diamonds and cash. Cashiers with counting machines were summoned and reported that the haul included £1.6 million in rupees, 98 kg of gold and 307 kg of silver. (No figure was provided for the diamonds.)

The Trust denied any previous knowledge of the hoard, said it had immediately paid tax on its value, and denied any impropriety.

If the Trust hoped that would satisfy the millions of devoted followers who had sent money from around the world in the belief it would be used to spread Sai Baba’s teaching or help educate the poor and treat the sick, it was mistaken. The love and compassion of which he preached gave way to rumours of more treasure hidden away around the sprawling building, of false ceilings and further underground hoards. Meanwhile Sai Baba’s niece, Chetana Raju, claimed she had received death threats for complaining about the search.

An easy look Towards Indian News Channels in HD televisions ...

An easy look Towards Indian News Channels in HD televisions

News programmes have all of a sudden become hot property as well as are vying for attention with other favorite programmes telecast in various channels. All big television broadcasters are including at least one news channel HD televisions to their bouquet. The biggest frustration for introducing a satellite channel is programme software for round the clock. In this juncture, newsgathering is a big job for the 24-hour news channels. To help accommodate this job, the coming through electronic channels have always made an attempt to cover all the incidents irrespective of position, site as well as time. These channels not only totally changed the thought of news on Indian HD televisions television nevertheless also changed the news formats. Before 1990s, Doordarshan had monopolized newscast on Indian television as well as also turned the news programs into a dowdy physical exercise. Now the private channels made the news an vital commodity such as food, cloth as well as shelter. The powerful point of all todays news bulletins is their topicality, objectivity, glossy editing as well as high-quality visuals. News has journeyed a long way from the DD era. From Local events to International events, breaking news to news evaluation, HD televisions soap to page3 news, every single taking place comes under purview of news. Here, we have covered some significant changes in news broadcasting in India before as well as just after the Gulf War. Television in India is starting significant changes in the current liberalized environment. To help recognize these changes, one needs to have some brief plan of the road covered by the television channels hence far. The journey started as an experimental basis with a financial grant from UNESCO in 15th September 1959. The makeshift studio at Akashvani Bhavan in New Delhi has been chosen for site of the experiment. The test started out with one-hour program, broadcast twice a week, on community health, citizen rights, education as well as traffic sense etc. As far as news is concerned, it has been launched exactly six years just after the inception of television broadcasting. Daily one-hour program with a news bulletin has been served to the Indian viewers. Yet one big drawback of television has been that you simply could not enjoy the original colour of the objects since of black as well as white transmission. Initially multi-color programme has been the Prime Ministers address to the nation from Red Fort in Delhi on Indias 35th Independence Day. In the exact same day, DD National channel has been launched. The aim of launching the National channel is nurturing national integration, as well as inculcating a sense of pride in Indians. Indian viewers also enjoyed the colored version of the Asian Games hosted by New Delhi in their drawing area. The insurance of big events as well as various occasions lend a big hand behind the infiltration of television signals to the nook as well as corners of the subcontinent. Indian Government had taken all possible steps to expand the television broadcasting demographically as well as geographically. In 1983 television signals were available to just 28% of the population, this had doubled by the final of 1985 as well as by 1990 over 90% of the population had access to television signals. In 1984, DD Metro channel has been added to supply an exclusive entertainment for the urban viewers. At first, this channel has been confined to metropolitan cities.

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