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In Varanasi, 14 people were arrested after a viral video showed them holding an iftar party on a boat in the Ganga, allegedly eating non-vegetarian food and discarding leftovers. Police invoked laws on religious outrage, pollution, and public nuisance

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to submit a comprehensive report on illegal constructions and encroachments along the Ganga riverbanks and floodplains, and asked about steps taken to protect the river and implement Ganga rejuvenation measures.

Move aims to understand their seasonal and migratory patterns, habitat utilisation, particularly in fragmented or disturbed river systems

The sisters saved Suraj by pushing him towards the river bank but were themselves swept away in the strong current

The repeated collapses of various sections of the bridge raise serious questions about quality of construction and alignment of project

Boat was travelling from Umanath Ghat to Diara when the incident occurred near Patna

In an extremely upsetting and an unsettling incident, a 5-year old boy suffering from blood cancer died, as he was repeatedly dipped in the Ganga for nearly 15 minutes in Haridwar.

The aunt of the boy dipped him in front of his parents. The child was screaming at first, but later the loud cries stopped.

The incident, captured on video, quickly went viral on social media platforms on Wednesday.

PM Modi will address the event which will be held in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi during the Ganga Pushkaralu.

Officials said that around 55 persons had gone to the Gangadhara island on the other side of the river to bring vegetables and food for cattle. While returning, their boat collided with another boat.

Hyderabad: Waterman of India Rajendra Singh on Saturday expressed concern over pendency of cases pertaining to rivers. However, the cases related to industrialists were resolved quickly, he said while participating in a national convention on rivers organized by Indian Peninsular River Basin Council and Indian Himalayan River Basin Council here. He underscored the need for […]

Lucknow: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday mounted a blistering attack on the BJP and asked it to first apologize for what happened in Hathras and Unnao and also for the Covid deaths. “We worship Ganga River but when the bodies were flowing in the river, where was Yogi ji? You came to […]

It was made clear by the police and the administration to the boatmen that they should not allow the tourists on their boat to feed the birds.