Vulgarity in films, serials affecting youth, says Ramdev; bats for Indian value-based education
Panaji, Feb 17: Yoga guru Ramdev on Friday claimed various films and television serials were propagating vulgarity, which was affecting the youth.
He was talking to reporters here on the eve of the three-day Yoga camp being held at Miramar Beach.
"Today, there are porn films, and all around there is vulgarity in films and serials. The younger generation is getting carried away with such content," Ramdev said.
Speaking about the three-day Yoga camp, Ramdev said programmes would include 'Sanatan Sangeet Mahotsav', which will be attended by well-known singer Kailash Kher.
"I have used the word Sanatan as it has ethos of all our eternal ideology and values. It inculcates all the religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Siddha. Sanatan also has the basics of Islam and Christianity. Sanatan is a non controversial term, which has nothing to do with any specific religion or political agenda," he said.
There would be a programme involving students and teachers at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium in Bambolim on February 20 with the aim of linking education in Goa with the Bharatiya Shiksha Board.
The Bharatiya Shiksha Board will connect children to Indian value-based education so that they don't get carried away, he claimed.
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Trump says he called off dispatching envoys to Iran talks
Dubai (PTI): US President Donald Trump said he told his top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, stating on Fox News that "they can call us any time they want”.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country won't negotiate while the United States imposes a blockade on its ports. Pezeshkian told Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a phone call Saturday night that the US “should first remove operational obstacles, including the blockade,” to allow a new round of negotiations, according to the ISNA and Tasnim news agencies in Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said Araghchi is expected back in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Sunday.
Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House. The meeting was the second high-level negotiation between the two countries this month. The initial 10-day ceasefire had been due to expire Monday.
The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil.
The move announced Friday is part of the administration's threat to impose secondary sanctions on entities doing business with Iran in an effort to cut off Iran's oil exports, which are a key source of its revenue.
Airlines worldwide have begun cancelling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices. Experts have offered information to travelers about what to do if a flight is cancelled.
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country won't negotiate while the United States imposes a blockade on its ports, according to Iranian media.
Pezeshkian told Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a phone call Saturday night that the US “should first remove operational obstacles, including the blockade”, to allow a new round of negotiations, the ISNA and Tasnim news agencies reported.
The Pakistani premier described the call as a “warm and constructive discussion”.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi concluded a one-day trip to Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Saturday after meeting with Pakistani military and government officials.
The trip did not produce a breakthrough in efforts to relaunch negotiations after US President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip by his envoys to Islamabad.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will return to Pakistan after his current visit to Oman on his way to visiting Russia.
The report said he was expected to be back in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Sunday and would join other members of his delegation who had gone to Tehran for consultations and “instructions on the topics related to the end of the war.”
