In response to a separate question, Singh said under the Namami Gange project, work on 34 ghats and nine crematoriums has been completed.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has reviewed progress of the 'Namami Gange; programme and submitted its audit report for tabling ...

Bharti said this was the first time that the Modi government has given a timeline and all the issues and obstacles to meet the deadline hav...

The Union cabinet, chaired by PM Narendra Modi, had approved the `Namami Gange' programme in May, 2015 and sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore for f...

Responding to an RTI application filed by activist Venkatesh Nayak, the Bankers' Bank refused to disclose the minutes of the crucial meetin...

The government had allowed use of old notes at petrol pumps, Mother Dairy, government hospitals, railway ticketing and crematoria and buria...

Prime Minister wrote a letter to all CMs, explaining note ban rationale and seeking their help, just minutes after speech.

Exemptions have also been made for payments at government hospitals, milk booths, crematoria/burial grounds and petrol pumps till November ...

Sanctioned by Empowered Steering Committee (ESC) of NGBRA yesterday, the projects will be undertaken in stretches from Haridwar to Uttarakh...

The UP Government will extend "whatever" co-operation the Centre will require in cleaning river Ganga, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhiles...

lnterestingly, cities like Coimbatore, Erode and Surat have signature crematoria designed by private architectural firms and widely cited i...

Modi said legal action should be taken against polluting industrial units and suggested setting up of environment- friendly crematoria alon...

Picking the death anniversary of B R Ambedkar, the most famous rationalist in the world's most irrational nation, was also a good idea.

The government has sanctioned Rs 4065.81 crore for pollution abatement schemes for rivers and lakes in various states with Uttar Pradesh ge...

An elderly man of Indian descent won the right to be cremated on a traditional funeral pyre in Britain, after a ruling by the Court of Appe...

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is seeing a new business opportunity in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-fired crematorium.

In a desperate move, the Congress party in Pune, led by Suresh Kalmadi, has formed an ‘issue based’ alliance with Raj Thackeray’s Maharasht...