Jajmau: A cocktail of chemicals is being dumped into the river Ganga in Kanpur. What is even worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain. In the historic city of Kanpur, a thriving leather industry is central to the crisis facing the Ganga. Rakesh Jaiswal, an eco-crusader, explains, "This is a failure of the Ganga Action Plan. The water that should...
10:53 AM, May 11, 2012
Garhwal: The Ganga is India's most revered of rivers. Her waters sustain all forms of life. She is a life-giver for over 400 million people. But unknown to the faithful, the government has planned over 300 dams on its various tributaries to generate electricity for a power-hungry nation, and the move comes despite a government-commissioned green panel report that has recommended scrapping 34 of the dams citing environmental concerns. The...
07:07 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: In an interview with IBN 18 IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, BJP leader Uma Bharti flayed the Congress and the BSP, saying that she would "make it sure" that the two parties "bite the dust" in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP returned to power in the state. Speaking to Sardesai, she added that she was not the BJP's chief ministerial candidate for Uttar Pradesh, but was more like a...
07:49 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) star campaigner Uma Bharti on Friday clarified that she was not the party's chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh while adding that she was working for the poor and had come to the state as the Ganga flows through it. "I am in UP to ensure BJP's performance. My heart belongs to the Ganga, the poor and the cow, wherever they are," Uma Bharti...
01:58 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi-based doctor has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife Supriya. He strangulated her and then threw her body off the bridge into a river. Supriya's mother Nibhasha said, "Please get justice for my daughter. My daughter used to say he treats her badly." On Friday, Supriya was allegedly murdered by her husband, Chandra Vibhas, a surgeon at the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital in Delhi. Supriya's parents...
08:35 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Melbourne: An Australian radio show host facing criticism for using a derogatory word against India and calling river Ganga a "junkyard" has issued an apology. Council of Indian-Australians president Yadu Singh on Friday said: "I am pleased to report that Sydney's 2Day FM Radio station and (host) Kyle Sandilands have realised the mistake in their comments and issued an apology." "This apology has been on air by Kyle, and in...
09:57 AM, Aug 05, 2011
Melbourne: An Australian radio show host is facing criticism from the Indian community over his reportedly derogatory comments on India and Hinduism, in which he called river Ganga a 'junkyard'. A Sydney-based Indian group is seeking an apology from the radio station following a report that host Kyle Sandilands made anti-India comments on his "Kyle and Jacky O" show. According to a report by a local ethnic TV programme 'Desi...
01:21 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Twenty-four people are feared dead after a bus plunged into the River Ganga in Patna. ...
08:19 AM, May 11, 2007
On World Water Day, CNN-IBN finds just why the Ganga ranks in the top five most polluted rivers of the world. ...
12:49 AM, Mar 24, 2007
Thousands offerred their prayers to the sun god on the occasion of
Chhath puja on Saturday. ...
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