Few takers for govt panel report on HEPs

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 ...

PITHORAGARH: China has assured India that it is developing projects on the Tibetan part of Brahmaputra river, which will not affect the river's flow in Indian territory, Union water resources minister HarishRawat said here today. The Union Water ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Srikar Gullapalli 13 and Brian Lemanski 14 were given a National Geographic grant to study how pollution of the Ganges River has affected religious practices. (Editor's note: This article was written by Alicia Klepeis) Although the Ganges ...

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, ...