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POLLUTION REDUCTION IN GANGA
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...- Ministry tells parliamentary panel of Namami Gange successes, gaps in waste managementThe Namami Gange programme has significantly improved the Ganga's water quality, meeting bathing standards in most stretches except for two...
- MV Ganga Vilas has put India and Bangladesh on world's river cruise map: Sarbananda SonowalWelcoming ‘MV Ganga Vilas’, the world’s longest river cruise at its culminating destination in Dibrugarh, Sonowal hailed it as a historic a...
- NGT seeks action against industries polluting Ganga in Uttar PradeshNGT chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel-led bench was dealing with the execution of a tribunal order passed last year, in which directions were i...
- Covid pandemic result of degradation of natural areas, species' loss, exploitation: UNEP IndiaIndia has taken the path of short-term economic interest over decades and this has diminished the ability of ecosystems to provide and supp...
- View: While rebooting the economy let the focus be on sustainabilityPollution and greenhouse gas emissions fell across continents earlier this year, as countries tried to contain the spread of Covid-19 with ...
- Lockdown: Health of river Ganga improvesThe health of Ganga River has seen significant improvement since enforcement of the nationwide lockdown that has led to reduction in dumpin...
- Gadkari inaugurates Rs 1,058 crore Delhi-Meerut Expressway phase 3The third phase or package from Dasna in Ghaziabad to Hapur is over 22-km long, with a civil cost of Rs 1,058 crore
- 20 more cities added to CPCB's 'polluted' list
- NGT raps Bihar, Jharkhand, WB govts for inaction on Ganga, slaps Rs 25 lakh fineIt noted that in Bihar there is practically no progress as not a single sewage infrastructure project has been completed.
- India, UK have launched joint research projects for clean water, energyMinister of State for Environment Mahesh Sharma said in a written reply to a question that the research projects aim to deliver mutual bene...
- How IIT-Delhi is coming up with eco-friendly technologies to boost a sustainable environmentOn the eve of World Environment Day, here’s a peek into some of the eco-friendly experiments underway in the labs of the institute:
- Industrial waste flow into Ganga down by 35 percent: Prakash JavadekarNew norms for abatement of pollution and stringent action against the violators helped bring down wastes from industrial units flowing into...
- Projects worth Rs 2446 crore approved for developments of ghats and crematoriums along river GangaGiving a major fillip to its Ganga rejuvenation efforts, National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) - a central body to implement the gov...
- Government shuts 150 industrial units along Ganga to curb pollutionEnvironment Ministry has ordered the closure of 150 industrial units, including sugar mills and tanneries, along the Ganga river.
- Environment activists give green signal to NGT's diesel car clampdownA clampdown on polluting diesel vehicles may help address the most dominant winter pollutant in Delhi - PM 2.5 they said.
- Two-thirds of sewage in urban areas flow into rivers untreated: PanelThe government is focusing on managing sewage in towns\cities on the banks of the Ganga, but it could be facing an even bigger difficulty.
- Rapid decline in commercially important fishes in GangaIt is ironical that Patnaites consume fishes imported from Andhra Pradesh despite the city situated on the bank of the Ganga.The number of ...
- 'Dolphin' man crusades to save national aquatic animalPopularly known as 'Dolphin man', Patna University zoologist Prof R K Sinha has been waging a battle over the past three decades to save th...
- Endangered dolphins made national aquatic animalAlarmed over the sharp drop in the number of freshwater dolphins, the Manmohan Singh government on Monday declared dolphins as a national a...
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