Indian Festival Organizer Fined Nearly $1 Million

India's National Green Tribunal, the country's top environment court, has fined a non-profit organization hundreds of thousands of dollars, just hours before the opening of the group's world cultural festival being staged on the banks of New Delhi's Yamuna River. The $740,000 fine stems from concerns the sprawling construction for the festival will irreparably damage the Yamuna's floodplains. The Art of Living Foundation, the organizer of the festival, is set to pay...

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