Yamuna cleaning begins after Delhi polls; Here's the planThe cleaning of the Yamuna river in Delhi has commenced, backed by a strategic plan to tackle pollution within three years. Prime Minister ...
17 Feb, 2025, 03.20 PM IST
Maha Kumbh: How Prayagraj Municipal Corporation is keeping the Triveni Sangam cleanThe Prayagraj Municipal Corporation has deployed trash skimmer machines to remove 10 to 15 tons of waste daily from the Ganga and Yamuna ri...
12 Feb, 2025, 12.45 PM IST
View: Sanitation as part of spiritual package needed to keep holy places cleanThe findings of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) are not the only sobering alerts for the stupendous achievements in sanitation i...
13 Jun, 2022, 12.07 AM IST
Credit, debit card frauds and how you can avoid themFind out the ways in which credit or debit card scams take place and the steps you can take to prevent identity theft and fraudulent transa...
26 Oct, 2018, 12.31 PM IST
Cleaning Ganga: Varanasi to get 2 new STPs before MarchThe sewage treatment plants, having a total 260 million litres daily capacity, will be commissioned at Varanasi's Dinapur and Goitha before...
20 Oct, 2017, 04.35 PM IST
Yamuna cleans up Rs 2000 crore from govt coffers in 22 years!Negligible dissolved oxygen levels and high coliform levels of as much as 16 crore reiterates that the Yamuna is a dead river.
22 Feb, 2017, 11.47 AM IST
Ganga promise: Walk the ghats, but don’t take a dipBJP leaders such as Varanasi mayor Ram Gopal Mohley and Shiv Sharan Pathak, blamed the state government for the lack of progress.
22 Feb, 2017, 01.30 AM IST
- Centre approves new Ganga cleaning projects at a cost of over Rs 370 crore
The Centre has approved new projects at an indicative cost of over Rs 370 crore for its ongoing Ganga rejuvenation programme in Haridwar an...
02 Jan, 2017, 07.32 PM IST
Modi government to launch 300 Namami Gange projects tomorrowNamami Gange aims to clean and protect the 2,500-km-long river. The projects range from construction and modernisation of ghats to afforest...
06 Jul, 2016, 08.48 PM IST
Centre will come out with Ganga Act in near future: Uma BharatiDuring the meeting, Bharti said the government will use 20 trash skimmers "very soon" along the entire stretch of river Ganga in addition t...
04 Jul, 2016, 10.52 PM IST
Rs 7,000 crore from Namami Gange project will be spent in UP: Uma Bharti"Of the Rs 20,000 crore allocated for the project, seven to eight thousand crore rupees would be spent in Uttar Pradesh alone," Bharti told...
08 May, 2016, 10.38 PM IST
Namami Gange: River surface cleaning to begin, backed with public monitoring appIntensive river surface cleaning is set to begin at ten identified cities along the banks of Ganga backed with a Bhuvan Ganga mobile applic...
25 May, 2015, 06.52 AM IST
Cleaning the Ganga: How sewage is turning it into less of a river and more of a toxic waterwayThe holy river becomes a carrier of untreated industrial waste, garbage, agricultural run-off and municipal waste making it less of a river...
23 May, 2015, 05.47 AM IST
Government working on including criminal provisions in law on River GangaThe government is in the advanced stages of preparing the final draft of a law, which will incorporate criminal provisions, in its bid to a...
18 May, 2015, 06.37 PM IST