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.

Anita Joshua

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday refused to be drawn into taking a stand on interlinking of rivers as a permanent solution to floods, with party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi maintaining that the

J Balaji

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has attacked Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh for giving the nod to the Kerala government for undertaking a forest survey for construction of a new dam in the Mullaperiyar reservoir area.

Mahim Pratap Singh

BHOPAL: With Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh declaring 2010 as the Year of the Tiger, some ghosts about the depletion and near-extinction of the big cats need to be dug out from the

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has decided to move the Supreme Court to seek stay of the Central government

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

Less than a month after Rahul Gandhi warned against

Rs 15k Cr Planned For Clean-Up

TWENTY TWO years and Rs 960 crore later, the government plans to spend another Rs 15,000 crore over the next 10 years to make the Ganga river pollution free. This decision was taken at the meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Conservationists say the Maharaja of Sargujar killed India