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Ganga cleanliness no longer matter of opinion, data shows improvement: National mission bodyScientific data now proves the Ganga river is getting cleaner. Twelve years of the Namami Gange programme have led to measurable improvemen...- Invaders couldn't break India's soul; Sanatan prevails in its consciousness: Yogi AdityanathUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asserted that foreign invaders failed to erase India's spiritual and cultural identity. He hig...
- NGT takes suo motu cognizance of IIT-Roorkee study on Ganga's summer flowThe National Green Tribunal has initiated proceedings based on an IIT-Roorkee study revealing groundwater's crucial role in sustaining the ...
- Uttar Pradesh: How 30,000 villagers revived a dying river and changed their livesOver 30,000 residents from 20 villages in Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, have restored the Sakarni river's course over the past 10 mon...
- So, the Seine's now clean, Ganga, anyone?Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo demonstrated the Seine's cleanliness for Olympic swimmers with a public swim, restoring confidence after a $1.5 bn...
- UN delegate describes India's 'Namami Gange' mission as 'beacon of hope'The UN 2023 Water Conference - formally known as the 2023 Conference for the Midterm Comprehensive Review of Implementation of the UN Decad...
- UN ranks Namami Gange among Top 10 World Restoration Flagship ProgrammesThe announcement was made as leaders from across the globe gathered in Montreal, Canada for the UN Biodiversity Conference, where governmen...
- Uttarakhand glacier burst: Rescue teams recovered 50 bodies out of the 204 missingAn alarm and hooter system has been installed and made operational for early warning system in the area to avoid further tragedy, an MHA of...
- 'Nirmal' Ganga: Govt plans to finish 200 projects for ghats, crematoria by March 2019, says Nitin Gadkari48 new cities have been identified on either side of the Ganga and its tributaries for projects to clean it.
- Plantation drive across 5 states to revive GangaExperts believe that plantation of trees, like walnut and oak, having high water retention capacity will increase the river's water level i...
- Plantation drive across 5 states to revive GangaThe identified patches in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal had seen large scale deforestation in the past, lead...
- 1,600 villages along Ganga to be made filth free, says Uma BhartiThe Centre will implement a four-pronged programme in which as many as 1,600 villages along the Ganga stretch will be made filth free by Oc...
- Clean Ganga: Talks to be held to craft long-term policyChief Ministers of Uttarakhand and Jharkhand will also take part in the consultations themed 'Swachh Ganga - Gramin Sahbhagita'.
- Environmentalists uphold declaration of Ganga as World Heritage siteA group of environmentalists will be petitioning PM Modi to pursue with UNESCO for declaration of upper region of the holy river as a World...
- Clean Ganga becomes mantra of water resources ministry in 2014Meanwhile, the government suffered a jolt when the SC pulled it up over unchecked pollution and sought a road map for making Ganga pollutio...
- Ensure fulfilment of Clean Ganga Mission by 2020: Public Accounts Committee to governmentPAC has also recommended that appropriate riverfront development be drawn up involving the private sector as well as civil society.
- How will Narendra Modi fulfill his promise of cleaning the river Ganga?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...
- BJP demands ouster of Uttarakhand governmentCharging the Uttarakhand govt with failing to take proper action during recent floods, BJP today demanded dismissal of the state government.
- Time running out for Ganga, states should step up efforts: PMWarning that time was running out to preserve the Ganga, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pulled up state governments for tardy per...
- Pure Ganga in 10 years, Centre promises SCThe Ganga will be pure and free of pollutants by 2020, the Centre promised before the Supreme Court on Friday. The work has been entrusted ...
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