Swami Sanand was forcibly shifted to the AIIMS hospital from his Matri Sadan ashram on Wednesday after his health deteriorated significantly after he stopped drinking water.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Prabhat Kumar said Yashwant Rana alias Sunny, a native of Doghat village in Baghpat district, was arrested along with his girlfriend Anshul after some people informed police about their suspicious movement at a secluded place near the canal.
This apart, massive projects for river front development and boosting cargo transportation by developing the National Waterways 1 on Ganga are also on, Gadkari said.
He described river Ganga as our "culture, heritage and identity" and hoped that people will come forward to help the government in this endeavour of theirs.
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Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s ashes immersed in Ganga at Haridwar
"It's an insult to women if such things have happened. These are deeds of half-witted people," ANI quoted Anuragi as saying on Monday.
The green panel directed National Mission for Clean Ganga to install display boards at a gap of 100 kilometres, indicating whether the water was fit for bathing or drinking.
BJP Chief Amit Shah performs Ganga aarti at Sangam, Allahabad
Minister of State for Water Resources Satyapal Singh also said in a written reply that construction and beautification of 228 of the total 361 ghats sanctioned have been completed till now under the Centre's Namami Gange programme.
From inking 14 crucial agreements to inaugurating the biggest solar power plant of Uttar Pradesh, Macron and Modi are headed to a closer understanding between the two nations.
Mamata Banerjee said her government has taken several steps like waiving off the taxes from the fair, providing adequate transportation and giving an overall insurance cover in case of accidental deaths of the pilgrims and other during the fair.
To a separate query, he said an 11-member committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of A B Pandya, former chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC), to address the issue of flood and siltation in Bihar.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also banned the sale, manufacture and storage of such items till Uttarkashi.
A boat capsized in the Ganga river in Meja sub-division of Allahabad on Saturday evening and four people are feared to have drowned.
A panel framing a draft law on the cleaning of the Ganga has proposed a two- tiered mechanism to replace two existing bodies which are implementing the Namami Gange programme.
The green court also declared 100 metres from edge of the river as no-development zone in the stretch between Haridwar to Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.
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