Uma urges govt to save Dhari devi temple in Uttarakhand

An elderly woman drowned in the Ganga while collecting water at the Kedarghat here today, police said.65-year-old Kamla Devi had come to the town yesterday to visit a relative and went to Kedarghat this morning to collect its water when she slipped into the ...

Kakinada, Mar 19: A Coast Guard surveillance ship 'Ganga Devi' on a routine sortie along the coast has intercepted two Sri Lankan fishing boats that intruded and fishing into our territorial waters off the coast near Nagayalanka in Krishna district ...

Source: Presentation on Dhari Devi temple to inter-ministerial group headed by B K Chaturvedi, setup by the National Ganga River Basin Authority

Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani and Uma Bharti on Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee and appealed him to direct the government to ensure uninterrupted flow of Ganga downstream from Tehri dam and save Dhari Devi temple in Uttarakhand from submergence due to construction of a dam. Bharti, who has been involved for the last few months in a campaign to protect the Ganga, apprised Mukherjee of the need for ensuring uninterrupted flow of Ganga downstream from Tehri dam. In a ...

The IITians for Holy Ganga, a forum constituted to preserve heritage and ecology of the river Ganga by alumni of all Indian Institutes of Technology, has welcomed the halting of uplifting and relocation of historical Dhari Devi shrine on the banks ...

: Noted environmental scientist of Banaras Hindu University ( BHU ) and National Ganga River Basin Authority ( NGRBA ) expert Prof BD Tripathi has outrightly rejected inter-ministerial group recommendation of re-engineering hydro electric projects ...

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