Ganga Floating Bodies

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments to inform it about the number of human corpses found floating in the river Ganga besides bodies buried on the river bed in the two states before the onset of COVID-19.

There is no information available about the number of dead bodies found floating on the Ganga during the peak of the second Covid wave, the government said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh's handling of the second wave of COVID-19 cases was "unparalleled", Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Thursday morning during a visit to his constituency of Varanasi.

Partly hidden between long reeds of grass, bodies shrouded in cloth float silently down the holy Ganges river, a reminder of how ferocious coronavirus wave overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.

The grisly sight of dead bodies floating on the Ganga - a horrific all-too-common sight last month during the peak of the second Covid wave - is a "serious problem", the Supreme Court said on Monday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said several bodies have floated to the state downstream river Ganga from Uttar Pradesh and polluted the waters.

Gujarati poetess Parul Khakhar's poem "Shab-Vahini Ganga" (corpse-carrying Ganga) criticised the Centre over its handling of the pandemic by making a reference about the bodies of COVID-19 victims floating in the river Ganga.

Bihar Water Resources Development Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Monday said that the bodies found floating in the river Ganga were not from the State and added that it is 'not our culture'.

The Centre directed Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on Sunday to prevent dumping of bodies in the Ganga and its tributaries, and focus on their safe disposal and a dignified cremation after corpses were seen floating in these rivers following a spurt in the

A former IAS officer has been booked for allegedly spreading misinformation by tweeting a seven-year-old photograph of dead bodies floating in the Ganga in Unnao and claiming them to be recent ones spotted in the river in Ballia, police said on Satur

A PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday sought direction for setting up a Special Investigating Agency to supervise the probe into around 100 corpses found floating in the river Ganga in Bihar's Buxar and UP's Unnao and Ghazipur districts.

More bodies were found floating in the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh today, this time in Varanasi. Some of the bodies were half-burnt when they washed up on the banks, possibly pulled off pyres and thrown into the river, officials say.

After a number of bodies were seen floating in the Ganga in the past few days, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said the government must be held accountable for "failing" its people badly.

Just days after dead bodies of suspected Covid patients were spotted floating on the Ganga river in Bihar and eastern UP, fresh reports have now emerged of bodies found buried in sand at two locations by the same river in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao.

Abandoned dead bodies of suspected Covid patients floating in Ganga River continue to trigger shock and anger among locals in parts of Bihar and neighbouring Uttar Pradesh with no one to hold accountability. Frightening visuals of corpses have sparke

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments to inform it about the number of human corpses found floating in the river Ganga besides bodies buried on the river bed in the two states before the onset of COVID-19.

There is no information available about the number of dead bodies found floating on the Ganga during the peak of the second Covid wave, the government said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh's handling of the second wave of COVID-19 cases was "unparalleled", Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Thursday morning during a visit to his constituency of Varanasi.

Partly hidden between long reeds of grass, bodies shrouded in cloth float silently down the holy Ganges river, a reminder of how ferocious coronavirus wave overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.

The grisly sight of dead bodies floating on the Ganga - a horrific all-too-common sight last month during the peak of the second Covid wave - is a "serious problem", the Supreme Court said on Monday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said several bodies have floated to the state downstream river Ganga from Uttar Pradesh and polluted the waters.

Gujarati poetess Parul Khakhar's poem "Shab-Vahini Ganga" (corpse-carrying Ganga) criticised the Centre over its handling of the pandemic by making a reference about the bodies of COVID-19 victims floating in the river Ganga.

Bihar Water Resources Development Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Monday said that the bodies found floating in the river Ganga were not from the State and added that it is 'not our culture'.

The Centre directed Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on Sunday to prevent dumping of bodies in the Ganga and its tributaries, and focus on their safe disposal and a dignified cremation after corpses were seen floating in these rivers following a spurt in the

A former IAS officer has been booked for allegedly spreading misinformation by tweeting a seven-year-old photograph of dead bodies floating in the Ganga in Unnao and claiming them to be recent ones spotted in the river in Ballia, police said on Satur

A PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday sought direction for setting up a Special Investigating Agency to supervise the probe into around 100 corpses found floating in the river Ganga in Bihar's Buxar and UP's Unnao and Ghazipur districts.

More bodies were found floating in the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh today, this time in Varanasi. Some of the bodies were half-burnt when they washed up on the banks, possibly pulled off pyres and thrown into the river, officials say.

After a number of bodies were seen floating in the Ganga in the past few days, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said the government must be held accountable for "failing" its people badly.

Just days after dead bodies of suspected Covid patients were spotted floating on the Ganga river in Bihar and eastern UP, fresh reports have now emerged of bodies found buried in sand at two locations by the same river in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao.

Abandoned dead bodies of suspected Covid patients floating in Ganga River continue to trigger shock and anger among locals in parts of Bihar and neighbouring Uttar Pradesh with no one to hold accountability. Frightening visuals of corpses have sparke