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  2 railway bridges in Bihar could be opened in 3 months: Manoj Sinha

  India | January 12, 2015 7:55 IST

  Darbhanga (Bihar):  Two rail-cum-road bridges over the Ganga in Bihar could be made operational in three months if the state government provides approach roads, Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said here today.  “The

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  Don't pollute Ganga, says Modi

  Politics | January 06, 2015 17:19 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday made a public appeal to not pollute the Ganga river while calling for a "time-bound, swift action and single-minded focus to ensure it is made pollution-free".Presiding over a

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  Thousands take holy dip in Sangam as Magh Mela begins

  India | January 05, 2015 11:06 IST

  Allahabad: Braving the winter chill, thousands of Hindu devotees Monday took the holy dip at the Sangam (the confluence of the three rivers, Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati) on the first day of the 44-day long

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  Ganga will transform in five years: Prakash Javadekar

  Politics | January 04, 2015 8:34 IST

  Indore: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday expressed confidence that under the Centre's 'Clean Ganga' campaign, the river will become clean and its flow will be unhindered in the next five years."The Clean Ganga

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  Mission Ganga Rejuvenation: Uma Bharti to meet UP government today

  Politics | December 20, 2014 7:28 IST

  New Delhi: Union Minister Uma Bharti will meet with the Uttar Pradesh government today to seek cooperation in her pledge to clean Ganga and the Sangam in years, as she has vowed.Uma Bharti, a senior

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  Survey of India to soon map Ganga river

  India | December 16, 2014 17:37 IST

  New Delhi: The Survey of India would soon begin work to map and survey Ganga river at an estimated cost of Rs 542 crore that will determine the sources of pollution along its basin, a

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  Will clean up Ganga in three years: Uma Bharti

  Politics | December 14, 2014 23:44 IST

  Allahabad: Union Minister Uma Bharti today asserted that the Centre was committed to cleaning up Ganga within three years even as she voiced dismay over the extent of pollution after an inspection here saying the

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  Uma Bharti defends expenditure on Ganga meet

  Politics | November 07, 2014 16:52 IST

  New Delhi:  Water Resource Minister Uma Bharti today defended the expenditure of nearly Rs 44 lakh on a Clean Ganga meeting here, saying the money went to a government agency for organising the event and

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  World famous 'Sonepur Cattle Fair' begins today

  India | November 05, 2014 13:46 IST

  Patna: The world famous Sonepur Cattle Fair is beginning from today in Bihar.The mela is held every year on ‘Kartik Poornima' (full moon) in the month of November in Sonepur on the confluence of river

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  Govt to form teams to identify source of Ganga pollution

  India | November 02, 2014 11:38 IST

  New Delhi: Expediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project of cleansing the Ganga, the Centre will constitute 25 special teams to check the source of pollution of the holy river so that further action could

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  Uma Bharati to inspect tomorrow 25 drains falling into Ganga

  Politics | October 30, 2014 20:26 IST

  New Delh: As part of the Clean Ganga campaign, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati would inspect 25 major drains, which fall into the river at Kanpur tomorrow.Bharati's visit comes against the backdrop of her

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  Jitan Ram Manjhi reviews preparations for Chhath festival

  India | October 26, 2014 13:44 IST

  Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today directed cleanliness and electricity supply at river embankments and related water bodies among various other measures for the two-day ‘Çhhath' festival next week.He also asked the officials

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  Centre calls meeting of five states on Ganga

  India | October 15, 2014 22:11 IST

  New Delhi: The central government has called a meeting of five states to stop the flow of untreated sewage water into the Ganga river, said a statement Wednesday.The decision to call for a meeting of

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  Finding alternate ways for waste disposal key to clean Ganga: Netherlands

  India | October 01, 2014 10:53 IST

  Rotterdam:  As India gears up for the gigantic task of cleaning up the Ganges river, the Netherlands, which has vast experience in river rejuvenation, has suggested that finding alternate ways for waste disposal is key

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  Gomti to be cleaned on lines of river Ganga: Rajnath

  Politics | September 30, 2014 15:04 IST

  Lucknow: Noting that the health of rivers is reflective of a country's condition, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today announced cleaning up of Gomti river here on the same lines as river Ganga.“Health of rivers

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  PM Narendra Modi calls for making rejuvenation of Ganga a mass movement

  India | September 12, 2014 7:18 IST

  New Delhi: Emphasising on the need to make Ganga rejuvenation a mass movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the first priority of this mission should be to stop fresh generation of pollutants.Chairing the first

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  More research needed to locate extinct Sarswati river : Uma Bharti

  India | August 14, 2014 21:13 IST

  New Delhi: Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti today stressed on the need for more research to locate the mythological Saraswati River.Speaking to group of scientists, archaeologists and research scholars here she said that an

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  Government showing no urgency to clean Ganga, observes Supreme Court

  India | August 13, 2014 17:51 IST

  New Delhi: Taking a potshot at the government on cleaning the holy river Ganga, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that ‘no urgency was seen in protecting the river'."You (government) showed urgency  in matters where

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  All rivers as divine as Ganga, says Uma Bharti

  India | July 21, 2014 21:52 IST

  New Delhi: All rivers are divine and the government will not neglect any of them in its zeal to rejuvenate Ganga, Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti said in the

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  Uma Bharti bats for uninterrupted flow of Ganga

  Politics | July 08, 2014 11:11 IST

  New Delhi: Political leaders, environmental activists and spiritual personalities came together here Monday for wide-ranging discussions on ways to clean and develop the Ganga - a river holy for the Hindus.Union Tourism and Culture Minister