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Ashes of Arun Jaitley immersed in Ganga at Haridwar
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], Aug 26 (ANI): The ashes of former finance minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley were immersed in the Ganga river at Haridwar on Monday.
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Sushma Swaraj's ashes immersed in Hapur's Ganga River
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Hapur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, immersed her mother's ashes in the Ganga River in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur, on Thursday.
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U'khand: One dead, five injured after accident at powerhouse in Chamoli
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], Aug 3 (ANI): One person was killed while five others were injured in an accident at a powerhouse on Kalp Ganga River in Joshimath area here on Saturday.
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Haridwar: Two kanwariyas recused from drowning by SDRF
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], July 21 (ANI): Two 'kanwariyas' were rescued from drowning in the Ganga river here on Sunday by a team of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), police said.
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Haridwar: Jal Police, SDRF teams deploy to rescue kanwariyas from drowning
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], July 21 (ANI): Amid the ongoing Kanwar Yatra, Jal Police and State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) teams have been deployed to rescue kanwariyas from drowning near River Ganga in Haridwar, police officials said.
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Massive rural sanitation drive by NMCG helps clean Ganga
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Haridwar, Uttarakhand [India], July 18 (ANI): Few miles from Haridwar city, Ajitpur is one among 4,465 villages located on the Ganga river basin which have been identified by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) as part of its Ganga Rejuvenation plan.
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Uttrakhand CM: Will take steps to preserve Lakshman Jhula
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttrakhand) [India], July 13 (ANI): After Rishikesh's nearly 100-year-old suspension bridge Lakshman Jhula was closed for public citing safety reasons, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Saturday said that his government will make efforts to preserve it.
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Several development projects initiated under Clean Ganga Fund
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Haridwar (Uttarakhand)/(New Delhi) [India], June 29 (ANI): Prayers and devotion to Ganga imply that the quest to clean and rejuvenate the holiest river in the country, The Ganges, is akin to worshipping the pious river.
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Narmada, Yamuna, Mahanadi etc will be cleaned on lines of Ganga: President
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 20 (ANI): The Centre is committed to the cleaning up major rivers like Cauvery, Periyar and Narmada on the lines of its ambitious 'Namami Gange' programme for river Ganga, said President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday.
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Kolkata: Magician drowns while performing underwater escape act
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jun 17 (ANI): A 47-year-old magician Chanchal Lahiri drowned while performing a stunt in the Ganga river below the Howrah Bridge, Kolkata police said on Monday.
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Experts stress on biodiversity conservation to keep Ganga clean
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature jointly organised a one day workshop on the occasion of "The International Day for Biological Diversity" here.
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Ganga saaf nahi hui lekin unki ticket saaf ho gayi: Akhilesh Yadav takes j
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Banda (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 30 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, Akhilesh Yadav, on Tuesday, took a jibe at Union Minister Uma Bharti and said that the NDA government was not able to clean Ganga river despite making separate ministry for the same, but the BJP did take away the ti
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