March 09, 2025 11:51 pm
Thackeray said his party leader, Bala Nandgaonkar, had brought holy water from the Maha Kumbh held in Prayagraj recently but he refused to drink it
October 12, 2018 12:38 am
GD Agarwal was reportedly upset on two counts — the notification put down e-flow rates which were not based on any scientific study, and it only extended up to Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.
October 12, 2018 12:42 am
GD Agarwal had undertaken similar fasts in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013, over the demands of an uninterrupted flow of the Ganga by banning the construction of hydropower projects on the river, and a ban on sand mining in the Ganga’s river-bed in Haridwar.
July 27, 2018 5:09 pm
Claiming that the river water from Haridwar in Uttarakhand to Unnao in Uttar Pradesh was unfit for consumption and bathing, the board said that innocent people drank and bathe in the river with reverence, without being aware of the water's adverse affect on their health.
May 11, 2018 7:56 am
The cleaning of the Ganga was one of the major poll promises of the BJP ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Gadkari said that efforts will be made to clean the river completely by December 2019.
October 20, 2017 5:48 pm
The government had recently awarded contract for constructing 50 MLD (million litres daily) capacity STP (sewage treatment plants) at Ramana in Varanasi.
October 30, 2014 7:01 pm
Supreme Court asked the National Green Tribunal to take action against industrial units polluting the Ganga.
October 30, 2014 1:52 am
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