River Ganga
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Centre issues notification for ensuring continuous flow of Ganga throughout the year
India | Oct 11, 2018, 07:23 PM ISTEnvironmental flows are the acceptable flow regimes that are required to maintain a river in the desired environmental state or predetermined state.
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Moradabad: Girls saved from drowning during Ganesha idol immersion in Ganga
News | Sep 19, 2018, 10:35 AM ISTMoradabad: Girls saved from drowning during Ganesha idol immersion in Ganga
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Over Rs 3,600 cr released in last 3 years for cleaning Ganga
India | Mar 15, 2018, 04:15 PM ISTMinister 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.
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BJP minister Satyapal Singh courts controversy by calling for ban on immersion of ashes in Ganga
India | Dec 20, 2017, 01:18 PM ISTSingh, who was in Haridwar on Tuesday to inaugurate 34 projects related to Namami Ganga mission, argued that it was not important to immerse flowers or ashes in the Ganga to fulfil religious duty.
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NGT bans use, sale, purchase of plastic items along river Ganga
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Uttarakhand: Young Boy drowned in River Ganga in Rishikesh
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People must save Ganga river, insult to it equal to 'rashtra droh': UP CM Adityanath
National | May 27, 2017, 07:55 PM ISTCM Yogi claimed that the pollution level in the Ganga river was the highest after the Ganga Action Plan was launched in the 1980s due to non-cooperation of states through which the river passes.
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Public money wasted, not a drop of Ganga cleaned: NGT
India | Feb 07, 2017, 08:21 AM ISTThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) has made some strong observations regarding the ‘non-seriousness’ of the government agencies who it said are ‘only wasting public money in the name of cleaning holy river Ganga’.
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River Ganga will be clean by July 2018, says Uma Bharti
National | Apr 28, 2016, 03:41 PM ISTNew Delhi: Government on Thursday exuded confidence in Lok Sabha that Ganga would be cleaned by July 2018 and said the return of aqua life in the river would be the biggest benchmark to prove
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Close shave for 350 as vessel collides with oil tanker in South 24 Parganas
India | Nov 23, 2015, 07:04 AM ISTCanning (WB): Around 350 people on board a state government passenger vessel had a close shave as a Bangladeshi oil tanker hit it on Muri Ganga river near Sagar island of South 24 Parganas district
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Germany proposes to clean a segment of River Ganga
National | Aug 27, 2015, 12:25 PM ISTBerlin: Keen to be part of ‘Clean Ganga' initiative, Germany has offered to rejuvenate a segment of the river in Uttarakhand by using technology it had employed to clean the Rhine, considered one of the
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Goa Congress leaders told to take dip in the Ganga
National | Oct 16, 2014, 12:54 PM ISTPanaji: Goa Congress president Luizinho Faleiro has advised senior party leaders to "go, take a dip in the Ganga" to cleanse themselves of their sins and turn around the crisis of credibility and charges of
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118 local bodies of 5 states to meet for Ganga cleaning plan
India | Oct 15, 2014, 01:34 PM ISTNew Delhi: Stepping up efforts to check pollution in River Ganga, the ministries of water resources and urban development have joined hands and called for a meeting of elected chiefs of 118 urban local bodies
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Cleaning Ganga will take 18 years and massive investment: Centre to SC
India | Sep 24, 2014, 07:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: After being rapped by the Supreme Court for its approach to clean Ganga, the Narendra Modi government has placed before it a blueprint of short, medium and long term measures that spread over
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Journey of River Ganga, from Purest to the Dirtiest river of the World
India | Oct 19, 2014, 11:15 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus and it is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism. The Ganges is the embodiment of all sacred waters in Hindu mythology. Let's look
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9 missing in boat mishap in river Ganga
India | Jan 28, 2014, 11:39 PM ISTBuxar: Nine persons, mostly girls, went missing in a boat mishap in river Ganga in Chausa block of Bihar's Buxar district today, police said. As per information collected from people on board the boat, 21
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River Ganga should be given heritage status: Uma Bharti
National | Jan 09, 2013, 08:13 AM ISTGhaziabad, Jan 9: If Taj Mahal can be given world heritage status for its preservation, then River Ganga too should be met with similar treatment, senior BJP leader Uma Bharti has said.The leader, who made
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Bihar Boat Tragedy Toll Rises To 36
India | Oct 11, 2010, 02:37 PM ISTPatna, Oct 11 : Fourteen more bodies were fished out today from the river Ganga, taking the toll in the boat mishap to 36, even as a search was on to trace six other missing