Ganga, Yamuna No Cleaner Now Than 20 Years Ago: Ramesh
PTI NEW DELHI

IN A frank admission, the Centre on Friday said in the Lok Sabha that Ganga and Yamuna were

Rashme Sehgal
July 1: The Ganga remains in drastic need for a resuscitation. The Planning Commission has prepared a report on the water quality data of the river for 2008-2009 and found that despite crores being pumped in to revive the river, its biological oxygen demand (BOD) fails to meet even the standard bathing requirements.

Varanasi: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has alleged that there is a conspiracy to

IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim town of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Their heads are turned anxiously in the direction of the river upstream.

The Bhagirathi is made to run through a tunnel in Uttarkashi, evoking strong protests from environmentalists.

IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim town of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Their heads are turned anxiously in the direction of the river upstream.

Strongly objecting to Union ministry of environment and forests

Starting with the granddaddy of them all, Project Tiger in 1973, to the more recent vehicular pollution norms and the coming up of sustainable architecture, a green agenda has been part of governance much before it became a globally cool movement.

Earlier Project Had Guzzled Rs 1,000 Cr And Left The River As Dirty As Before