Tag: Ganga
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3,000 religious outfits seek land in Magh Mela township
The Magh Mela begins on January 1 and will conclude on March 1.
December 31, 2021 -
Water quality in lower stretches of Ganga alarming: study
The team led by Professor Punyasloke Bhadury from the Integrative Taxonomy and Microbial Ecology Research Group (ITMERG) at IISER, Kolkata monitored nine sites encompassing 59 stations along the 50 km stretch of the lower stretches of the River Ganga over two years to understand the dynamics of key environmental variables
December 8, 2021 -
Water quality in lower stretches of River Ganga reaches alarmingly low
The team had examined the water quality in the lower stretch of River Ganga and observed the release of municipal waste in River Ganga has deteriorated the much-needed baseline of Water Quality Index (WQI) in the lower stretches of the Ganga river.
December 8, 2021 -
No dams in upper reaches of Ganga: Open letter to PM Modi
Eight years after the Supreme Court moratorium on dam construction in the Upper Ganga region, three Union Ministries and the Uttarakhand government had reached a "consensus" to allow construction of seven hydropower projects, including the one destroyed in the February 2021 flash floods in Chamoli district.
September 10, 2021 -
Ganga continues to be flooded in Bihar, Brahmaputra becoming a concern
Middle reaches of Ganga in districts such as Badaun and Farrukhabad (UP) are in above normal flood situations. River Ghaghra in Barabanki, Ayodhya & Ballia (UP) and Siwan and Saran (Bihar) districts are flowing in above normal to severe flood situations with a rising trend due to the past two days rainfall in the catchment.
August 15, 2021 -
Erosion continues in Malda; river water floods three villages
As per the website of the department of irrigation and waterways, the Ganga is flowing at a level of 25.39 m, which is above .09 m from extreme danger level, while the district irrigation department claimed that people need not fear about anything.
August 13, 2021 -
Ganga erodes land; Malda villages under threat
"The department is working on a war-like emergency and is taking all the necessary steps to prevent further erosion of the land in those places," she said.
July 6, 2021 -
Two corpses float down to Malda on the Ganga
Amid reports that floating bodies, presumably those of Covid-19 victims, had been found in the Ganga river in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar recently, people in Malda today went on a panic mode.
June 6, 2021 -
The River
The tragedy deepens as over the past two days, unidentified and unclaimed bodies have been seen floating in the Ganga in Bihar’s Buxar district and in neighbouring Ballia and Ghazipur districts of UP.
May 15, 2021 -
Stopping Beas water will create havoc in Delhi: Chadha
Chadha mentioned that the people of Delhi depend on groundwater along with the water of Yamuna, Ganga and Beas rivers and the Beas provides 25 per cent of the total water supply of the city.
February 26, 2021 -
Want to perform Ganga Aarti? First procure permission from district administration
"The riverfront is a public property owned by the state government and being looked after by the Varanasi Municipal Corporation," said the district magistrate in a letter to VMC.
February 21, 2021 -
Panic as ‘chain-pulling’ halts Darjeeling Mail
Passenger uses alarm chain to get down at Farakka bridge.
December 28, 2020 -
Rishikesh gets new suspension bridge, all set to become selfie hotspot
The Laxman Jhula hogged limelight in 1968 when members of the famous musical band Beatles walked the wire bridge to reach the spiritual camp of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh.
November 20, 2020 -
PM Modi launches logo of Jal Jeevan Mission, six mega projects under Namami Gange Mission in Uttarakhand
'In the past decades, huge initiatives were taken up to clean river Ganga but those initiatives had neither public participation nor farsightedness,' PM said.
September 29, 2020 -
Nearly 15 lakh people affected in Bihar floods;11 districts inundated
In Bihar, almost all rivers are flowing above the danger mark. Rivers such as Ganga, Bagmati, Budhi, Gandak, Kamala Balan, Mahananda and Ghaghra have been flowing above the danger mark in many areas.
July 27, 2020 -
Climate concerns mustn’t be ignored
The painful truth now, however, is that the world can simply not handle what many countries across the world have planned.
May 26, 2020 -
ICMR urged to test Ganga water for N Coronavirus ‘cure’
The proposition was forwarded to the apex research body after Atulya Ganga, an organisation comprising Army Veterans, knocked on the doors of the Ministry requesting it to conduct clinical trials on the holy water to find the cure for the deadly viral disease.
May 4, 2020