The Pune police have registered two separate criminal cases over the high drama that prevailed at the Osho International Meditation Resort in Koregaon Park on Wednesday as a group of rebel Rajneesh followers stormed into the resort premises.

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Two offences were registered at Koregaon Park police station on Wednesday night. The First Information Report (FIR) in the first case was registered on behalf of the management by Dhaneshkumar Joshi alias Swami Dhyanesh Bharti. Based on his complaint, the police booked around 120 rebel followers, of whom seven were identified by name. The police also booked a man identified as a reporter and invoked charges under Indian Penal Code sections pertaining to unlawful assembly, rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, trespassing and intentional insult.

In the second offence, the police booked Varun Rawal, 27, a native of Bhilai, who entered the resort premises along with the rebel followers and created a ruckus as he went on a rampage and attacked police personnel. Police officials said that their probe suggests that the man does not belong to either faction of followers. Rawal has been booked under charges related to attacking a public servant and intentional insult.

The ruckus at the resort came a day after the resort management had allowed the rebel group which has been banned for years to enter the premises wearing mala or beaded rosary. On Tuesday, the management had clarified that the wearing of the mala was allowed only for a day because of the intervention of the Pune police.

While the resort management alleged trespassing and violence by the rebel group, the latter alleged use of excessive force and lathi-charge by the police at the behest of the management.

The police said that they resorted to use of force on Wednesday to control Rawal who, according to them, did not belong to either faction and created a ruckus, attacking police personnel before being overpowered and detained.

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Gurmeet Choudhary visits Kainchi Dham Neem Karoli Baba Ashram ( Photo Credit Instagram )

Actor Gurmeet Choudhary, who will soon be seen in the upcoming streaming series Maharana, recently visited Kainchi Dham Neem Karoli Baba Ashram in Nainital, Uttarakhand.

Talking about his spiritual visit, Gurmeet Choudhary told IANS, I have visited the Kainchi Dham Neem Karoli Baba Ashram twice over the past year. Its a divine experience and I feel the ashram and temple are a very powerful source of energy. I had gone with a wish, a goal to achieve something and wanted to seek his blessings. I had decided the day I achieve my goal I shall be visiting it back to acknowledge the blessings and be grateful for it.

In the past, Indias explosive batsman Virat Kohli along with his wife Anushka Sharma had visited the ashram apart from Meta head honcho Mark Zuckerberg.

Gurmeet Choudhary continued, Whenever ones wish is fulfilled as a mark of respect we donate a blanket to Babaji and this time I went to do the same. I am grateful to God for all the good things I have received in the past one year. You cant reach somewhere if there is no faith.

He spoke about the importance of spirituality in a persons life as he told IANS, Be it family, relationship or work I feel peace plays a very important role and spirituality helps us to achieve that. It helps us to calm down and gives us the faith to achieve our goals. In todays time its so important to remain calm. Bollywood as a profession is a very hectic job and comes with a lot of pressure. Spirituality helps you in achieving calmness amidst all that madness and takes you a step closer to your goals.

When you have a heart filled with desire and you wish to achieve certain goals, visiting a temple or a baba gives you a very blissful feeling. The two-day journey of going to the temple and visiting it is nothing less than magical for me, Gurmeet Choudhary concluded.

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Several disciples of late spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh wearing 'sanyas malas' on Wednesday forced their way into his Pune ashram in Maharashtra in protest against the purported plans by the management to sell the Ashram land. Tension has been brewing between a group of disciples and the OSHO International Foundation (OIF) management which manages the affairs of the Ashram since Tuesday. Police said on Wednesday afternoon, more than 250 followers forced their way into the Osho International Meditation Centre (OIMC), situated in Koregaon Park area.

Outside the Ashram, police detain a man after he became "violent" and tried to attack police personnel.

"After our intervention on Tuesday, the followers were allowed to enter the Ashram campus with 'malas' but today these followers forcefully entered inside. A man, who is not a part of the followers' group, became unruly and violent and tried to manhandle police personnel forcing the police to use force to evict him from the spot," said Smartana Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone II).

"During the commotion, a man who is said to be an Indian-origin US citizen who had not received 'diksha' (initiation) might have said something out of aggression and was whisked away by police," he said, adding that the followers do not know the man.

"To respect the law and order and to support the police, the management allowed them on the premises with 'malas' only for today (Tuesday) but from tomorrow (Wednesday), the usual rules will apply," she had said.

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ADILABAD: The three day Mitr Milan at Adilabads Kala Ashram ended on Wednesday amid much bonhomie among friends of Ashram and a homam was organised on the occasion of Ugadi celebrations.

All those who attended the three-day event including tribal artisans, craftsmen and students of painting workshop organised by the Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Utnoor, resolved to return to the Ashram for the next event.

The last day had senior Supreme Court advocate P. Niroop, senior Journalist Pasham Yadagiri, among others, arrive at Ashram. They had healthy interactions with others at the ashram.The havan or homam was conducted early in the day. The Telugu new year was welcomed amid chanting of Vedic hymns.

As part of interactions between Adivasi artists, Uika Indrajeet, a senior Ojha artisan gave tips to the younger generation of artists. He evaluated the paintings produced by the young painter trainees.

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JAMMU, Mar 22: The 13th day ceremony of Swami Mast Bab Ji a spiritual saint of Kashmir who breathed his last recently was performed at his Patoli Ashram here today. A large number of devotees of Swami Ji attended the function and paid obeisance to this spiritual saint who was the disciple of great saint of Kashmir Swami Nand Lal Ji.The 13th day ceremony was also observed at Swami Jis Ashram Shalamar Garden, UP, Karala, New Delhi. The ceremonies concluded with serving of Prashad to devotees.Meanwhile as per the will of the Swami Ji his disciple Bunty Ji (Repan Koul and Sarita Ji (Sarita Koul) have been nominated Successors (Gaddinashin) of Swami Ji in all six Ashrams operated by Mast Bab Ashram Trust at Hushroo, Badipora Kashmir, Patoli, Jammu, Shalamar Garden, Uttar Pradesh, Haridwar, Uttarakhand and Karala, New Delhi. The Ashram will be administered as per the principles and traditions professed by Swami Nand Lal Ji and Swami Mast Bab Ji.A handout issued by Swami Mast Bab Ashram Trust here, today said in the compliance of the Guru Shishya Parampara, Swami Ji has passed on the spiritual mantle entrusted to him by his Guru, Swami Nad Lal Ji to his designated disciples, Bunty Ji and Sarita Ji. A ritual in this regard was conducted in the Patoli Ashram today. A hawan was also performed on the occasion. The Bunty Ji will henceforth adopt name of Swami Parkash Ji a name given to him by Swami Mast Bab Ji himself. The function was also attended by Swami Kumar Ji of Geeta Satsang Ashram Muthi.

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Early on this season, Polina Kozyreva won 12 matches in a row, starting with a 3-1 lead against New Jersey Institute of Technologys Shalom Salvi and ending against Virginia Techs Semra Asku. She won both sets against Boston Universitys Navya Vadlamudi 2-0 (6-0, 6-0) and shut out Cornells Fatima El Ashram.

Former teammates Guzal Yusopova and Sofya Treshcheva both described Kozyreva as hardworking, which has translated into her role this year. Kozyreva is one of two seniors in charge of leading the Syracuse team this spring. Yusopova said Kozyreva started to take more of a leadership position as a junior last season.

Treshcheva said Kozyreva has become more responsible since she was a freshman, and now knows how to deal with stress and pressure much better. Kozyrevas success hasnt been affected by her spot in the lineup, winning matches in every singles spot besides No. 1 singles, where fellow senior Zeynep Erman currently resides.

Kozyreva has played with four different players in doubles, and has excelled with almost all of them. Her partnership with Miyuka Kimoto, who she went to the NCAA tournament with last year, has been particularly successful.

We just want to have as many options as possible. I thought they did a really good job, head coach Younes Limam said after Kimoto and Kozyreva won their first doubles match of the season against Buffalo.

Kozyreva has taken the sophomore Kimoto under her wing, and the pair performs well together, Treshcheva said. Kozyreva has also played with sophomore Shiori Ito, encouraging her between points and pushing her to battle.

For Kozyreva, each point is an important point. Its every single point she cares about. Thats what makes her stand out, Yusopova said.

Most of Kozyrevas success has come in the singles round, winning 12 of her 14 matches and only seeing a third set twice. Her first loss came against Clemsons Jenna Thompson, who beat her 2-1. The loss accounts for two of the four total sets that Kozyreva has lost this season.

Kozyreva lost her most recent match against Georgia Techs Mahak Jain, who was then-No. 99 in the country. Kozyreva lost the first set 7-6 (10-8 tiebreaker), but would come back and lead the second set 4-3 before suffering an injury and retiring from the match.

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In all but one of her 12 wins, Kozyreva has won both sets and the match by a final score of 2-0.

She plays with a lot of confidence She understands her game extremely well, Limam said.

The one outlier from Kozyrevas long win streak took place against then-No. 23 Miami, facing Audrey Boch-Collins on Feb. 26. Kozyreva lost the first set 6-4, but bounced back and won the second set 6-4. She won the third and final set of the day 1-0 (18-16).

Kozyreva had to dig deep against Boch-Collins to pull out a win in the final set. The team match had already been decided, but Kozyreva and her opponent wanted to finish their individual match out. It went back-and-forth the whole time, going point-for-point until Kozyreva finally won the match 18-16.

In doubles, Kozyreva tries to set up Kimoto for success. The pair has won five of its seven doubles matches, which has helped Kimoto build her confidence, Limam said. Kimoto fell from the No. 1 singles spot and found herself in a four-match losing streak earlier in the season, but playing and winning matches with Kozyreva has helped her win two of her last four singles.

She does pretty well changing tactics. For her, she knows how to change rhythm, Treshcheva said. That is how you find better players, players who battle for every single point and are focused and work for it.

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Just a couple of days back, telly star Shivangi Joshi shared a picture on Instagram revealing that she had been hospitalized due to a kidney infection. Taking to the social media app once again, the Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai star shared an update about her health. Having undergone a surgery, Shivangi revealed that she had been discharged on March 18 and has been recovering at home. The telly actress further added that her treatment is still ongoing at home.

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An avid follower of Neem Karoli Baba, telly actor Gurmeet Choudhary shared a snap from his visit to Kainchi Dham Neem Karoli Baba Ashram. "I have visited the Kainchi Dham Neem Karoli Baba Ashram twice over the past year. It's a divine experience and I feel the ashram and temple are a very powerful source of energy, the actor also said in a recent interview.

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He further suggested that MC Stan and Abdu Rozik's falling out was merely the result of a minor misunderstanding. "Ek word tha jiski poori picture bann gayi hai. People discuss it because they love usIts a minor misunderstanding," he said.

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Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli are one of the most loved couples in Bollywood. The lovebirds have been painting the town red ever since they got married in 2017. Apart from their lovey-dovey side, fans of the couple have also been witnessing their spiritual side. The cricketer and the Bollywood actress have been spotted and snapped time and again at various spiritual places. Take a look

After ringing their New Year in Dubai with their daughter Vamika, Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli jetted off to Vrindavan to seek blessings. In pictures and videos which made their way on to the internet, Anushka and Virat were seen listening to Baba Neem Karoli. Vamika is seen sitting on Anushka's lap and enjoying the moment. According to reports, the couple also distributed blankets and meditated for an hour at the ashram.

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In November last year, Anushka and Virat, along with Vamika travelled to Uttarakhand. In a series of pictures, shared by a fan account on Twitter, the couple wore matching black sweatshirts and sat under a tree. They also posed with several fans at Neeb Karoli Baba ashram. Anushka also posed with several fans at the ashram. Virat also signed autographs in a few pictures. The duo were even seen handing out blankets in several photos.

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Ahead of India's Test series against Australia in February this year, Virat and Anushka visited Swami Dayanand Maharaj's samadhi Ashram in Rishikesh. Their trip to Rishikesh came days after they were last seen in Vrindavan. In the photos, Anushka and Virat were seen worshipping at the ashram. While Anushka wore a grey anarkali suit, Virat opted for black pants and a white fluffy sweater with a shawl. As per ANI, the couple participated in public religious rituals at the ashram. A bhandara was also organised by them.

In July last year, Anushka and Virat were seen holidaying in London with their daughter Vamika. The couple reportedly attended the Krishna Das musical event in the UK. The music festival took place in Londons Union Chapel on July 14-15. The couple was seen interacting with a fan named Hanuman Dass who also shared a photo with them. He captioned it, 'Great that Maharaji could bring us together @virat.kohli and @anushkasharma to @krishnadasmusic tonight. Lovely meeting and chanting with you both. Ram Ram!'

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Gnosis co-founder and COO Friederike Ernst doesnt like seeing decentralization thrown around as a superficial marketing term.

Its why she takes such pride in the fact that its very affordable right now1 GNO token, about $108 at the time of writingto become a validator on the Gnosis Chain. For context, it costs 32 ETH, worth almost $58,000, to become a validator on the Ethereum network.

That low bar to entry has helped the Gnosis Chain, one of the earliest Ethereum sidechains, amass more than 115,000 validators.

Thats 20% of what Ethereum has, she said on the latest episode ofDecrypt's gmpodcast.

Being a validator on a blockchain means verifying transactions and adding them to the ledger. On proof-of-stake blockchains like Gnosis, validators need to stake tokens to show they have skin in the game. They earn rewards for participating in a way that helps the network and can be penalized if they dont.

Ernst said the focus on true decentralization is what sets Gnosis Chain apart from other Etherem layer-2 scaling solutions.

If you go to the likes of Solana and Polygon and Avalanche, and so on, it's super, super small numbers of validators, Ernst said. I think it's really easy to forget about the benefits of decentralization until you need them. And then it's too late.

As of Wednesday morning, Solana had about 10,000 validators, Polygon intentionally keeps its validators capped at 100, and Avalanche had 1,200 validators.

We have the exact same L2s on Gnosis Chain, by the way. So yeah, definitely not knocking them, she added about the other L2s. They're super useful for many kinds of applications.

Ernst left a career as a physicist to join Gnosis in 2017, two years after it was founded by CEO Martin Koppelman and chief technology officer Stefan George. At the time, Gnosis had just spun out from blockchain venture studio ConsenSys, which was started by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin.

Before she left academia, Ernst had earned her PhD in Berlin, completed postdoctoral work at Columbia University and Stanford, and was working as a professor at the University of Hamburg.

The decision to leave academia behind was hard, but ultimately she decided it was important to help build tools that would give agency back to people. And as passionately as she talks about the importance of decentralization, she knows that it comes with tradeoffs.

For developers, the entire process of building applications gets much harder when infrastructure is decentralized. It's easier to just build on a centralized platformand a shortcut that too many crypto projects have taken, in Ernst's assessment.

If you think about building the exact same applications, just on AWS, it would be cheaper and easier and better user experience," she said. "And then you build it on a blockchain that is barely a blockchain in terms of decentralization, and you have the downsides of both worlds and the upside is mostly marketing. And to me, it's not a great state of affairs.

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Ethereums developers have locked in a date for the networks next big upgrade, dubbed Shanghai: April 12. While ETH fans will laud the update for introducing the ability to unstake ETH, it couldnt be happening at a worse time.

SEC chair Gary Genslerindicated again this week that proof-of-stake modelslike those used by Ethereumare securities. Meanwhile, the NYAG filed charges against the KuCoin exchange for illegally selling securities and specifically named ETH as a security in large part due to the fact that Ethereum is not decentralized after all.

Add to that the fact that the past 12-24 months have seen legislators, regulators, and law enforcement all clamp down on illegalities within the industry in different ways. For instance, in January, theSEC took actionagainst lend-to-earn programs jointly operated by Genesis and Gemini on the basis that they amounted to illegal securities offerings. Nexo Capital paid the SEC a$45 million dollar settlement over its lend-to-earn program around the same time.

Most notable about these actions is that they confirm that the SEC is beginning to deconstruct themyth of decentralizationand the role it plays in determining whether a given asset offering amounts to a security. Look at the language used by Gensler in aninterviewwith The Block in 2021, right as the SEC began to look at lend-to-earn products:

I would note to your readers that if youre investing on a centralized exchange or a centralized lending platform, you no longer own your token. Youve transferred ownership to the platform. All you have is a counterparty risk. And that platform might be saying, as many of them do, well give you a four percent or seven percent return if you stake your coins with us or you actually transfer ownership and we the platform will stake your tokens. That takes on all the indicia of what Congress is trying to protect under the securities laws.

This should represent an enormous red flag for Ethereum and BTCtwo projects that the SEC has long considered the rare exceptions to its general position that most digital assets are, in fact, securities. Thats because these exceptions arise from the SECs assumption that both projects are decentralized: without a centralized body governing projects like these, according to the SECs logic, it cant be said that investors had a reasonable expectation of profits relying on theefforts of others, as is required by the Howey test for securities (their belief that BTC is not a security is also based on a misguided interpretation of that projects history).

These exceptions were always highly tenuous and at odds with reality. As time has gone on, they have become increasingly difficult to justify. Now, it seems, regulators and law enforcement have finally seen the lie for what it is.

Ethereum was always a securitybut now its obvious

The idea that Ethereum is anything but a security has always been a sham. This was obvious from Buterins own marketing at the time of the ETH ICO right through to the language used on Ethereum websites today. The point is made repeatedly: ETH production will slow dramatically over time, increasing scarcity and, as a consequence, value.

The Ethereum foundation website alsorefersto the fact that ETH is viewed as an investment.

But the biggest lie of all was that Ethereum is or has ever been decentralized. This was obvious back in 2016 when a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) holding almost 15% of all ETH in circulation was hacked. Ethereums developers, led by founder Vitalik Buterin, proposed, approved, and implemented the solution to fork the network and recover the stolen assets. There was the charade of a vote on the proposal, but just 6% of all ether holders participated, and 25% of the votes came from a single address, while the proposals at the heart of the vote were still authored by Ethereums core team. This can be seen again as recently as this week with the Shanghai update announcement: If Ethereum is decentralized, then who is designing, proposing, and implementing these radical upgrades? That would be the very same people that intervened after the DAO hack, of course. This is not decentralization by any realistic definition.

The notoriousEthereum 2.0 upgrade, which moved the networks consensus mechanism from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, did nothing to change this reality. If anything, the migration to Proof-of-Stake moved Ethereum even deeper into security territory. In contrast to Proof-of-Work, where miners are at least undertaking work of their own in solving hash puzzles, those staking under a Proof-of-Stake system are relying entirely on the work of others to deliver profits on whatever coins have been staked. In fact, this week, Gensler again indicated that Proof-of-Stake networks are likely to trigger U.S. securities laws, saying:

Whatever theyre promoting and putting into a protocol, and locking up their tokens in a protocol, a protocol thats often a small group of entrepreneurs and developers are developing, I would just suggest that each of these token operators seek to come into compliance, and the same with the intermediaries, he said,reportedby The Block.

Authorities are already taking action on the basis that ETH is a security

This sea change by authorities is not just a speculation over some hypothetical future enforcement drive. Instead, the enforcement drive is already here.

Last week, the New York Attorney Generalfiledcharges againstexchangeKuCoin over failing to register as a securities and commodities broker-dealer: ETH, which is listed by the exchange, was expressly labeled a security in the charges. The language used by the NYAG couldnt be clearer:

ETHs development and management is largely driven by a small number of developers who hold positions in ETH and stand to profit from the growth of the network and the related appreciation of ETH.

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Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation retain significant influence over Ethereum and are often a driving force behind major initiatives on the Ethereum blockchain that impact the functionality and price of ETH.

The language could have been taken straight fromHowey: ETH is not decentralized, and the continued development of the network is closely governed by a core group of developers who promote the asset on the basis that its value will increase over time. It is a classic security.

The NYAGs action is against KuCoin rather than anyone directly connected to Ethereum, but between Ethereums recent upgrades, Genslers public statements on centralization and the SECs recent enforcement actions, it seems that the SEC charges against Ethereum and its developers directly cant be far away. The ramifications of an SEC case against Ethereum can be much wider reaching: the SEC is empowered to levy fines and penalties against those violating the U.S. securities regime, including disgorgement of all profits made in connection with an unregistered securities offering and injunctions against carrying on further business. In short, it could spell the end of Ethereum altogether.

And if the myth of decentralization with respect to ETH has finally been pierced, then you can bet that BTC is up for the same treatment.

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