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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
