The Hindu devout dream of walking to Gaumukh, where the waters of India’s holy river, the Ganges, emerge from a Himalayan glacier, at least once in their life. However, theContinue Reading
Entrepreneur Ankit Agarwal’s Phool.co (flower) which has received investment from the social arm of the Tata business group, employ’s more than 100 women who use to work as manual scavengersContinue Reading
An inter-ministerial meeting was held in the presence of Union Environment Minister,Shri Prakash Javadekar and Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in New Delhi today. The meetingContinue Reading
Antibiotic resistance appears to be spreading in the environment. A new study by Banaras Hindu University researchers collected samples at 5 ghats on the Ganga in Varanasi and they foundContinue Reading
Dissolved oxygen is an important parameter that determines health and rejuvenation capacity of any riverine ecosystem. The amount of dissolved oxygen in a river depends on atmospheric supply of oxygen,Continue Reading
Aquatic life in the Ganga is set to flourish due to considerable improvement in level of dissolved oxygen in more than a decade, feel experts who are camping here andContinue Reading
The National Mission for Clean Ganga partnered with UN Habitat to organize a policy dialogue- ‘Urban Cafe: River for Habitat’ in New Delhi on the occasion of World Cities DayContinue Reading
Muktibodh in his magnum opus ‘Andhere Mein’ ( In The Darness) wrote ‘…the nation died / but we lived…’ implying thereby our collective consciousness no more stirred us out ofContinue Reading
