All posts tagged "Ganga"

Cities3 months ago
Lockdown Impact: Ganga gets cleaner in Uttar Pradesh
New Delhi, The national lockdown to check the spread of Covid-19 has thrown up something to smile about. The water quality of the Ganga river in...
Cities10 months ago
Uttar Pradesh: Prayagraj partially submerged due to floods
Lucknow, Sep 19: Schools located in Prayagraj city will remain closed till September 21 in view of floods situation in eastern Uttar Pradesh following incessant rains...
Politics1 year ago
Nothing done for River Ganga in past 5 years: Akhilesh Yadav
Lucknow, March 13: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for doing nothing to clean the Ganga, a promise he...
India1 year ago
Boat carrying Kumbh pilgrims capsizes in Ganga
Prayagraj, Feb 2: A boat carrying Kumbh Mela pilgrims capsized in the Ganga here on Saturday but there were no reports of any injuries, an official...
Business2 years ago
India’s 1st container movement on inland waterways begins with PepsiCo goods
IWAI officials said container cargo transport reduces handling cost, allows for easier modal shift, decreases pilferage and damage, besides enabling cargo owners to lessen their carbon...
India2 years ago
G.D. Agrawal death: Agrawals slam Modi for ‘exploiting’ Ganga river
Mumbai, Oct 15: The Agrawal community on Monday slammed the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “exploiting” the Ganga river issue for political purposes and...
Cities2 years ago
Heavy rains in Allahabad, river Ganga overflowing
Allahabad, Sep 11: Heavy rainfall continued to lash Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad on Tuesday resulting in waterlogged streets as river Ganga is overflowing. Last week, a swelling...
Cities2 years ago
Kolkata: Major fire breaks out in chemical godown near Armenium Ghat
Kolkata, March 15: A fire broke out in Kolkata’s Armenian Ghat area on the banks of the Ganga on Thursday. It disrupted the circular train services of...
Cities2 years ago
Bihar: 5 dead after boat capsizes in river Ganga
New Delhi, Jan 31: At least five persons reportedly died after a boat carrying 15 people capsized in river Ganga in Patna’s Fatuha on Wednesday. The accident...
India3 years ago
Ramdev’s Patanjali polluting river Ganga!
Comptroller Auditor General Of India has released a report stating the factors which are polluting river Ganga and in a big surprise, Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali is...
India3 years ago
Thousands take holy dip on ‘Somvati Amavasya’
Dehradun, Dec 18: Braving icy winds and cold weather, thousands of devotees on Monday took a holy dip in the Ganga at various places in the hill...
India3 years ago
NGT bans plastic in Haridwar, Rishikesh to curb pollution in Ganga river
New Delhi, Dec 15: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday imposed a complete ban on the use, sale, manufacturing and storage of plastic items in the pilgrimage towns...
India3 years ago
Thousands take dip in Ganga on ‘Kartik Purnima’
New Delhi, Nov 4: Starting early on Saturday, hundreds and thousands of Hindu devotees took a holy dip in the river Ganga on the occasion of ‘Kartik...
Cities3 years ago
Three washed away in Ganga in UP
Allahabad, Aug 25: Three youths in Uttar Pradesh were washed away in the Ganga river here on Friday when they went for a holy dip on Ganesh...
India3 years ago
Madhya Pradesh: Ganga river to purify villager who killed a cow
A privilleged caste villager from Madhya Pradesh’s Tikmagarh district has left to take a dip IN Ganga as he killed a cow in his village. According...
India3 years ago
NGT declares edge of Ganga as ‘no-development zone’
New Delhi, July 13, 2017: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday declared 100 metres from the edge of the river Ganga as ‘no-development zone’. It...
Cities3 years ago
SC stays Uttarakhand HC order declaring Ganga and Yamuna ‘living entities’
New Delhi, July 7: The Supreme Court on Friday has put a hold on the Uttarakhand High Court order declaring Ganga and Yamuna as a juristic...
Cities4 years ago
Rain in Uttar Pradesh backs flood threat
Flood waters receded in many parts of Uttar Pradesh that resulted in increase in water level of Ganga and Yamuna continue to be in spate, an...
India4 years ago
NEERI to evaluate medicinal values of Ganga: Uma Bharti
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) will evaluate the “medicinal values” of river Ganga, informed Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday. “NEERI study...
India5 years ago
Ganga sanitation project ‘very ambitious’: CJI
Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur on Sunday described as “very ambitious” the Narendra Modi government’s project to clean Ganga and ensured that the judiciary would...