Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attacked the Congress party alleging that it boycotted the consecration ceremony of Ram Temple in Ayodhya and demeaned the holy Ganga.
In a tragic incident five teenage friends were drowned in Ganga off the Sangam city on Friday .
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami chaired a meeting at the secretariat to discuss the development of new townships in various cities of the state.
The Uttarakhand Police has tightened security arrangements ahead of the Kanwar Yatra, which will start on July 4.
The incident allegedly took place near the confluence of Bhagirathi and Alaknanda. Jagraj Dandi was taking a holy dip in the Gnag river when he slipped and drowned.
The evacuation operation named as 'Operations Ganga' is being extensively activated from Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. Camps have been set up in these countries at the borders with Ukraine.
The written reply was given in response to Trinamool Congress MP Derek O' Brien's question on the number of COVID-19 related bodies claimed to have been dumped in the Ganga river and measures taken to retrieve them as per protocols.
The Magh Mela begins on January 1 and will conclude on March 1.
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
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.
