Rishikesh half marathon pushes for Ganga cleansing

Two youths working in a private firm in Gurgaon were feared drowned on Sunday in Ganga river near Muni ki Reti area of Shivpuri here, police said.

Four engineering students of Kurukshetra University's Institute of Engineering and Technology drowned in Ganga at Rishikesh on Friday afternoon.

Rishikesh, May 9 (IANS) Experts, environmentalists and spiritual leaders Thursday demanded that the government should ensure free flow of at least 51 percent of water in the Ganga and Yamuna, two major Indian rivers. The activists called for ensuring the ...

A rafting guide drowned in Ganga river near Rishikesh after saving six tourists, all residents of Delhi, when the raft carrying them turned turtle downstream on Friday, police said.

A Delhi-based aircraft maintenance engineer of Jet Airways drowned in Rishikesh, when his raft capsized in the Ganga on Sunday. Prashant Pandey, a resident of Rohini in Delhi, had boarded the raft from Kaudiyala to Tapovan along with six of his ...

A week after teenaged actor from Hyderabad, Naarla Teja, drowned in River Ganga at Rishikesh, his body was retrieved last night, his family friends said here on Tuesday. The actors bloated body surfaced in the waters some 300 yards away from where he drowned ...

Rishikesh: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday asked people to vote conscientiously as he launched the third phase of his Jantantra Yatra here on Tuesday. "We must elect individuals capable of delivering and not vote blindly for parties ...

In March, my daughter and I, along with two of our friends, visited Aashraya on the Ganga (www.aashraya.in), a small retreat with three cottages near Rishikesh. While we did the usual rafting, frolicking on the tiny stretches of white beaches and ...

NEW DELHI: Recognizing that the plethora of dams built and planned in the Ganga basin could almost empty the river of its waters in the winter season, an inter-ministerial group has recommended that the projects be re-engineered to maintain 30-50% ...