Few takers for govt panel report on HEPs

Prof. Chandan Mahanta, Indias water specialist on the Brahmaputra river basin who heads the Centre for Environment at IIT Guwahati, believes the ministry of water resources (MWR) must set up the Brahmaputra River Valley Authority (BRVA) at the earliest. Mr ...

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre, National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) and others on a PIL that contended that the authorities have failed to enforce laws to protect the Ganga ...

VARANASI: With the message to clean river Ganga , a week-long MahadevGangaMahotsav began in the premises of Banaras Hindu University ( BHU ) on Monday. The festival will witness open discussion that brings together people to voice their concerns and ...

With his passing, the holy city of Varanasi has lost an iconic figure. Perhaps, as importantly, the Ganga has lost a favourite guardian. The noted environmentalist and mahant of the famous Sankatmochan temple, Professor Veer Bhadra Mishra, died on ...

Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Phase-I was launched in 1985 to improve the water quality of river Ganga. Later, GAP Phase-II was initiated in 1993. Various pollution abatement schemes including interception & diversion of sewage and setting up of sewage ...

Even as the world gets set to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity ( IDB ) on May 22, the Ganga continues to be threatened by pollution. The United Nations had declared May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to ...

KANPUR: A major stretch of Yamuna river between Panchnada and Sangam (Allahabad), considered a suitable habitat for highly endangered Gangetic Dolphin (Platanista gangetica), today faces numerous problems. Rampant use of giant-size dredgers to ...

Devotees offered prayer and performed religious rituals at the mythological Manikarnika Chakra Pushkarini kund at Manikarnika Ghat before taking a holy dip in Ganga on the next day of Akshaya Tritiya on Tuesday. However, a number of these devotees, ...

ed comments on this article Binay SinghBinay Singh , TNN | May 4, 2013, 04.38 AM IST RELATED VARANASI: Ganga, the holiest river that has been washing people's sins and granting 'moksha' since time immemorial, today itself needs attention of those ...