The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

The 58th executive committee meeting of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) approved various vital projects which aim ...

Uttar Pradesh plans a two-month strategy to address Ganga pollution ahead of Mahakumbh-2025, focusing on 34 drains and sewage ...

According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 25 has helped improve the quality of Ganga water. In some stretches of the river, CPCB claims ...

Progress has been patchy. 40 per cent of India’s population lives in the plains drained by the Ganges and its tributaries. The life-giving river covers a distance of 2,500 kilometres from the ...

Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of ...

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

The National Green Tribunal has been informed that according to an Uttarakhand government's report on pollution in Ganga, even the "originating point" of the pious river is polluted by sewage ...

Prayagraj: Two sisters, natives of Badauli village in the Handia block of Prayagraj drowned in the river Ganga after they went to take a bath in the river on the day of Diwali (Thursday).

Turbidity instruments are used to determine water clarity by measuring the average volume of scattered light. Turbidity is typically determined by measuring the attenuation (intensity loss) of light ...

Before starting their investigation they want to find out more about the river, known locally as The Ganga. DUA: Can we see the whole map of India? MAP SELLER: India? Yes, why not? DUA ...

Victims of coronavirus are cremated on the banks of the Ganges river in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh The bodies of at least 40 people have washed up on the banks of the Ganges river in ...