River Ganga News
On this occasion, the devotees take a holy dip into Ganga, meditate and offer prayers to Lord Vishnu.
The devotees, after taking the dip, visit the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and bow their heads.
Lakhs of people take a holy dip into Ganga on the day of the full moon.
IIT Kanpur has claimed in its research that the river Ganga can show its fierce form soon. The reason behind this has been told to change the nature of the flow of the river.
At least 71 bodies, which were found floating in the river Ganga, were fished out, said officials, triggering suspicion that the abandoned corpses could be those of COVID-19 patients.
Several bodies, decomposed bloated and suspected to be of people who succumbed to COVID 19, were found floating in the river Ganga in a Bihar district
Officials in Chausa block of Buxar, which borders Uttar Pradesh, rushed to the spot of the unseemly sight upon hearing the news
The IMD has issued an alert of heavy to very heavy rainfall for all districts of Uttarakhand, including Dehradun.
It is said that Goddess Ganga came down from heaven to earth her in order to purge the cursed souls of Bhagiratha's ancestors on Ganga Dussehra.
Uma also took a dig at Priyanka Gandhi for not visiting the makeshift Ram Lalla shrine in Ayodhya and said that she is ill-informed about Ram Lalla and Ayodhya.
In connection with the conspiracy to dissolve the poison in Ganga water in Prayagraj Kumbh , Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that if the concerned terrorists entered the UP, then they would be dealt with on the border. Yogi said that today’s demand for evil is like evil with the wicked. Yogi Adityanath gave this statement when he was giving speeches at an event in
The Gangasagar Mela is rated as the second largest assembly of people after the quadrennial Kumbh Mela.
21 people have been rescued after the boat mishap, a top UP govt official said.
The water level of River Ganga in the Kanpur region rose following incessant rains in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
On Saturday, India and France had inked 14 pacts, including in key areas of defence, nuclear energy and protection of classified information.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the Centre has garnered commitments worth Rs 1,500 crore from international and domestic corporates, and industrialists for cleaning of river Ganga.
Special emphasis was laid on installation of toilets to ensure an open defecation free environment.
Villages accross the banks of River Ganga were declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) under Namami Gange initiative on Saturday.
Four children on Wednesday drowned in the River Ganga, police said.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar has convened a meeting of all stakeholders involved in cleaning of the river from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh to the state's border with Bihar to chalk out an action plan for cleaning the Ganga.
The study added that two-thirds of the pollution comes from the 20 most polluting rivers, with majority of them in Asia.
Bharti will begin her 15-day trip from Ganga Sagar in West Bengal and culminate the same at Gangotri in Uttarakhand.
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