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Worshipers prayed and conducted rituals at the Ganga Ghat during the event.

Congress on Thursday flayed the Modi government for reportedly imposing an 18 per cent GST on Ganga river water

The upcoming Maha Kumbh will be organized into 25 sectors, each equipped with its own police station, and over 100 police outposts will be established.

New Delhi: The celebration of Akshaya Tritiya is in its full fervour across the country on Tuesday. Starting the day with a holy dip on this occasion, people took a holy dip at the sacred rivers. In Varanasi, people worshipped Lord Vishnu, Goddess Lakshmi and paid obeisance to the deities after taking a holy dip. […]

Hyderabad: Genetic researchers from Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and other major Indian research institutions, in a ground-breaking study have revealed that the human skeletons that were excavated from an old well in Ajnala town in Punjab in 2014, belonged to the Indian sepoys from the 26th Native Bengal Infantry Battalion, who […]

She had breathed her last at a hospital in Mumbai on February 6.

Nairobi: A new report on Tuesday about plastic pollution and migratory species mapped hotspots and assessed its risk on migratory species in the Ganga and Mekong river basins which are protected under the UN’s Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). In the Ganga river, the river dolphin, the gharial, a […]

Jaunpur: Taking a swipe at Yogi Adityanath, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister cleverly avoided taking a dip in the Ganga, unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi, knowing well that the waters of none of the rivers were clean. He also refused to tender an apology for his taunt […]

NGO Trust Distress Management Collective filed a plea stressing enactment of a specific legislation, which protects the rights of the dead.

According to Dr B.D. Tripathi, the chairman of Malviya Ganga Research Centre at Banaras Hindu University, the greenish appearance of the river could be due to microcystis algae

"Every shroud on corpses seen in the sands of Ganga says that the Modi system stays buried in the same sands," the Congress MP tweeted in Hindi.

A video of the incident was shared widely on social media inn which policemen displayed insensitivity during the last rites.

In a tweet in Hindi, Rahul Gandhi said, "The one who said Ganga has called him, has made the Mother Ganga cry."

The disaster caused a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river in Uttarakhand and endangering the lives of people living along its banks.

The 865-metre-long bridge, built at a cost of Rs 70 crore across the Godavari river in Bornapally in Raikal mandal, has revived social connections, provided a boost to economic activity and improved access to education and health facilities for remote villages.

In a beautiful and heart-warming video shared on Twitter, the actor says she wants her ashes to be scattered on the mountains