The Yamuna river holds deep religious significance in India. Ancient texts and paintings depict her as a goddess and celebrate her associat...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) found that untreated sewage discharge from Uttar Pradesh is polluting the Ganga River. The NGT criticized...

The river water and the adjacent soil are contaminated with various pollutants, including heavy metals. In this study, the effects of seaso...

In 2018, the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) released the e-flow notification for Ganga, which refers to the quality, quantity and ...

Massive preparations are underway for the Kumbh Mela which has been recognised by the UNESCO as an "intangible cultural heritage of humanit...

E-flow defines the quantity, timing and quality of water flow required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, besides human liveli...

The high court verdict had come on a PIL of Haridwar resident Mohammad Salim over mining and stone crushing along the banks of the Ganga.

In a landmark judgement on March 20, the Uttarakhand high court accorded the status of "living human entities" to the Ganga and Yamuna, two...

Bestowing human status on the sacred but highly polluted rivers would, according to the court's order, amount to harming a human being.

This fits a trend towards a wider expansion of personhood beyond human beings. Sometimes it's being mandated by courts and sometimes just b...

For millions, Ganga is sacred, and for millions more, it is the lifeline - providing livelihoods, sustenance, and water for quenching parch...

The court named the director of Namami Gange, the chief secretary of Uttarakhand and the advocate general of the state "persons in loco par...

Agreeing with advocate MC Pant, the court cited the example of river Whanganui in New Zealand which has been given such status.

The CAG report says that no state has identified species at risk due to river pollution. And only seven have studied the risks to human hea...

Cloud burst incident was reported from Sunali village of Chamoli district, while moderate to heavy rains continued to lash the state.

It is an effort towards social upliftment, said Bindeshwar Pathak, who has initiated this model of social engineering.