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IAS officer summits Everest with gangajal to spread awareness on 'Swachh G
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Ravindra Kumar, an IAS Officer of Uttar Pradesh Cadre, has a message for the nation from atop Mount Everest, which he scaled with gangajal (water from River Ganga) in the recently concluded climbing season.
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UP: Girl drowns in River Ganga
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Sambhal [UP], June 2 (ANI): One girl went missing after she along with her five friends went to take bath in River Ganga near Ramghat here on Sunday, said police.
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Swami Aatmabodhanand breaks 194 day-long fast to save Ganga
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], May 5 (ANI): Swami Aatmabodhanand broke his 194 days fast to save River Ganga after receiving written assurances from the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).
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Navjot Singh Sidhu slams PM Modi for not fulfilling poll promises
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bokaro (Jharkhand) [India], Apr 30 (ANI): Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not being able to fulfil his poll promises with respect to cleaning river Ganga, bringing back black money and Rs 15 lakh promise to common people.
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Five more years required to clean Ganga from Congress' pollution: Amit Sha
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 29 (ANI): BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said that five more years are required to clean river Ganga from 70 years of Congress' "pollution."
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Malda: With no govt help land erosion victims struggle to sustain life
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Par Anupnagar (West Bengal) [India], Apr 23 (ANI): Scores of villagers from Par-Anupnagar, who lost their homes in 2017, due to a land erosion along the river Ganga, are irked over not receiving any sort of compensatory relief from the government
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Kanpur: PM Modi inaugurates, lays foundation stone for various Namami Gang
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday in Kanpur inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for a slew of projects worth Rs.73.8 crore, including those for the Namami Gange project, aimed at cleaning and safeguarding the river Ganga.
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Nitin Gadkari lays foundation stone for sewerage infrastructure projects f
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 01 (ANI): Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone of sewerage projects worth Rs 2785.23 Cr in Chhapra, Bihar in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi, Rajiv Pratap R
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Shivraj Chouhan takes holy dip in Ganga at Kumbh mela
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 12 (ANI): Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan along with his wife took a holy dip in river Ganga here on Tuesday during the Kumbh Mela.
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Nitin Gadkari attacks Congress for failing to clean Ganga during Rajiv Gan
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 24 (ANI): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has claimed that during former late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's tenure, Rs 5000 crore was spent on cleaning the Yamuna which yielded no results but after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, the government i
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Kumbh 2019: Muslim-Sikh duo urges people to pledge for Clean Ganga
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 22 (ANI): A Muslim-Sikh duo has been urging people at the ongoing Kumbh Mela to take a pledge to clean river Ganga.
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How clean is River Ganga? Here's a fact check
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): Around 97 towns and cities located on the banks of Ganga discharge over 3.2 billion litres of untreated sewage into the river daily. To keep the water from getting polluted, the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) took up a big challenge t
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