Ganga Clean-up

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari downplayed Congress's star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's three-day boat ride in the river Ganga last week when she made several pit-stops and sought support for the party for the national election.

Dr Jasper Wieck, Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy in India on Thursday said that to help clean river Ganga, you need time, money and the right approach.

The effect of government's massive project to clean-up the river Ganga will be visible by October this year, Union Minister Uma Bharti said in Kanpur today.

In a sharp criticism of the progress of the Ganga Action Plan today, the Supreme Court asked the NDA government whether it would be able to complete the cleaning of the river in this term or in the next.

The Home Ministry has taken serious note of a security lapse at Varanasi's Assi Ghat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in a Ganga clean-up drive on Saturday morning as part of his 'Clean India' campaign, according to sources.

The state of the river Ganga provoked a sharp rebuke from the Supreme Court today for the central and state pollution control boards. "Yours is a story of complete failure, frustration and disaster," said the court.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held wide-ranging talks today to enhance cooperation in defence, civil nuclear and infrastructure development.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious initiative to clean up the river Ganga has attracted interest from Germany, which is keen on providing its expertise to carry out the multi-billion dollar project.

A Hardiwar-based spiritual group has said it will clean the entire Ganges river over a period of five years. As a fortnight-long clean-up programme ended in Haridwar, the Gayatri Pariwar announced its decision to spruce up the 2,525-km long river, from Gangotri in Uttarakhand to Gangasagar in West Bengal.

Three labourers cleaning a sewer were killed on Thursday due to a poisonous gas leak. The incident took place at Fazalganj when labourers deployed for the clean-up entered the sewer line, informed CLP Gupta, Project Engineer of the Ganga Pollution Control Board. The cleaning project has been undertaken by a Ghaziabad based company and the deceased ...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari downplayed Congress's star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's three-day boat ride in the river Ganga last week when she made several pit-stops and sought support for the party for the national election.

Dr Jasper Wieck, Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy in India on Thursday said that to help clean river Ganga, you need time, money and the right approach.

The effect of government's massive project to clean-up the river Ganga will be visible by October this year, Union Minister Uma Bharti said in Kanpur today.

In a sharp criticism of the progress of the Ganga Action Plan today, the Supreme Court asked the NDA government whether it would be able to complete the cleaning of the river in this term or in the next.

The Home Ministry has taken serious note of a security lapse at Varanasi's Assi Ghat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in a Ganga clean-up drive on Saturday morning as part of his 'Clean India' campaign, according to sources.

The state of the river Ganga provoked a sharp rebuke from the Supreme Court today for the central and state pollution control boards. "Yours is a story of complete failure, frustration and disaster," said the court.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held wide-ranging talks today to enhance cooperation in defence, civil nuclear and infrastructure development.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious initiative to clean up the river Ganga has attracted interest from Germany, which is keen on providing its expertise to carry out the multi-billion dollar project.

A Hardiwar-based spiritual group has said it will clean the entire Ganges river over a period of five years. As a fortnight-long clean-up programme ended in Haridwar, the Gayatri Pariwar announced its decision to spruce up the 2,525-km long river, from Gangotri in Uttarakhand to Gangasagar in West Bengal.

Three labourers cleaning a sewer were killed on Thursday due to a poisonous gas leak. The incident took place at Fazalganj when labourers deployed for the clean-up entered the sewer line, informed CLP Gupta, Project Engineer of the Ganga Pollution Control Board. The cleaning project has been undertaken by a Ghaziabad based company and the deceased ...