From IBN Live, New Delhi: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim promised to help India in cleaning up the river Ganga. The remarks came after Kim met Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday and also discussed a host of issues. Kim has said that they will send their best team to…
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Nearly 425 poets of the Rashtriya Kavi Sangam (National Poets Confluence) from over 20 states of India came together on the banks of Mother Ganga at Parmarth Niketan (Rishikesh) for a very special gathering dedicated to preserving and protecting Mother Ganga, which is not only a lifeline to 500 million…
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From The Asian Age by Sanjay Kaw: 24 July 2014: New Delhi: With traces of toxic metals found in fruits and vegetables grown along the banks of the Yamuna river, the city administration is likely to ban farming with contaminated water from the river. The national capital receives 95 per…
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From Zee News: 20 July 2014: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met a delegation from his parliamentary constituency, of Varanasi to chalk out and implement developmental plan for the region. Varanasi Mayor, Ram Gopal Mohale, on Saturday said that they discussed implementation of budgetary provisions for the welfare of the people. “He is…
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From Business Standards: 25 July 2014: Planning to go sight-seeing on the Ganga? You might soon get to spend a couple of days and nights on it. As part of the Ganga rejuvenation scheme to boost tourism on the sacred river, the Narendra Modi-led central government wants to float hotels…
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From Independent Online Travel by Bhuvan Bagga: 20 July 2014: Kanpur, India – Standing on the banks of the river Ganges a day after his election triumph, Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to succeed where numerous governments have failed: by cleaning up the filthy waterway beloved of India’s Hindus. From…
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From BBC News Magazine by Divya Arya 27 June 2014: The danger faced by women going to the toilet outdoors in rural India was made clear last month when two girls were ambushed, gang-raped and hanged from a tree. But defecation outside is normal for most Indian villagers – so…
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One katha was delivered in Augustmuni, Rudraparayag, near the center of last year’s disaster , by Respected Acharya Shiv Prasad Mamgaiji and the other was delivered at Parmarth Niketan (Rishikesh) by Respected Sarasji Maharaj. During both of the week-long kathas Pujya Swamiji reminded and encouraged everyone to take the message…
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From The Hindu by Meena Menon. 16 July 2014: Uttarakhand has to ensure that the quest for hydropower cannot come without a responsibility to preserve a region that is limping back to life. The devastation in Uttarakhand had already happened much before the cataclysmic events of June 2013. The unprecedented…
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June 2014: Darshan Goswami makes a strong argument for India to harness concentrated solar power, a renewable, safe and clean resource, for its future energy needs Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long…
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