SILCHAR, Oct 11:

LUCKNOW: It would take more than just installing a sewage treatment plant (STP) to infuse a fresh lease of life into the dying Gomti. At least, in the opinion of Magsasay award winner, Rajendra Singh, popularly known as `water man of India'.

After declaration of dolphin as

The Centre wants to keep the Ganges River Dolphins in the Delhi zoo to

Sunny Sebastian

JAIPUR: The declaration of the Ganges river dolphin as India

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Monday approved an ambitious project to prevent the discharge of untreated municipal sewage and industrial effluent into the Ganga by 2020.

NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed doubts over the capacity of the proposed institutional framework to carry out cleaning of the Ganga and ensure bringing down of pollution as planned by the National Ganga River Basin Authority.

M Madhusudan | New Delhi

The first meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on Monday failed to agree on the sharing of costs, required to launch a fresh mission to clean up Ganga by 2020, between central and state governments. In an impromptu decision, however, the Authority decided that the endangered Gangetic dolphin will be India

ALARMED over the sharp drop in the number of freshwater dolphins surviving in river systems across the country, the Manmohan Singh government, acting on a proposal made by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, on Monday declared dolphins as a national aquatic animal.