In Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, police arrested 14 individuals—mostly young Muslim men—for organizing an iftar party (the meal breaking the Ramadan fast) on a boat in the middle of the Ganges River.

The group, identified as local saree shop workers, had reportedly organised the outing on Sunday and filmed it, allegedly for a reel.

The CAG observed that the detailed project report for Forestry Interventions for the Ganga included a budgetary provision of ₹885.91 crore and a plantation target of 54,855.43 hectares. However, ...

A study estimated the river to have contributed 6 per cent of plastics from rivers leaking into oceans. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Kolkata: Two electric crematoria on the banks of Hooghly, one at Kalyani and another at Barrackpore, have been set up for ...

Ali Tauqeer Sheikh is a climate-change specialist representing Pakistan on the board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, based in Islamabad, Pakistan. The United Nations warned in January ...

A SpaceX rocket that burned up after re-entering the atmosphere unleashed a plume of vaporised metals over Europe, a type of pollution that is expected to increase as spacecraft and satellites ...

Gangotri is one of the holiest points on the Ganges, considered as the place where the great river actually descended to Earth. Situated high in the Garhwal Himalayas, Gangotri constitutes the origin ...

Head and Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Chair Professor in Policy Studies at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi University of Toronto provides funding as a ...

During the video, Jeremy Wade also addresses the sensitivities surrounding discussion of pollution in the Ganga. A video shared by British biologist and television presenter Jeremy Wade has generated ...

Marine litter is a serious environmental problem worldwide. Reducing it would require implementing a global monitoring system, agreeing on the use of common methods and protocols for data collection, ...