Mizo News – 18 January, 2013 Foreigners who have come from far off lands to the abode of God and Godliness, the Sangam in Allahabad are not only taking a dip in the Ganges to rid themselves of their sins and feel the purity of the river, that people of…
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India Real Times – The Wall Street Journal – 15 January, 2013 By Joanna Sugden The Kumbh Mela, perhaps the largest religious gathering on Earth, began Monday in Allahabad, a city in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Between 80 and 100 million Hindus are expected to take part in the…
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The Indian Express – 1 January, 2013 In a unique initiative, an environmental kumbh would be held during the Maha Kumbh in Allahabad to discuss green issues related to the river Ganga. “During Kumbh Mela, a special two day meeting will be held from January 18 in which detailed discussions…
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Times of India – 18th December, 2012 By Swati Chandra VARANASI: Vinod, a street food vendor at Godowlia market knows nothing about the recent ban imposed on the use of plastic bags. Instead, he remarks, “Customers often pester us with the demand for plastic bags. If I do not keep…
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Times of India – 18th December, 2012 By Faiz Rahman Siddiqui KANPUR: With an aim to make sacred river Ganga pollution-free during Maha Kumbh-2013, seven teams comprising of officials of the district administration and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), inspected around 80 tanneries that were shut down in compliance…
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The Hindu – 9th December, 2012 By Anupma Jain Standing on the banks of sacred Ganga, one could hear reverberations of a famous melancholic song by legendary Bhupen Hazarika wafting in the air. “Vistaar hai apaar, praja dono paar kare hahakar. O Ganga, tum behti ho kyun? (Your expanse is…
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The New Indian Express – 9th December, 2012 By Deepshikha Punj What could an electrical engineer, homemaker and former Test cricketer have in common? Meet 27-year-old Ashmeet Kapoor, an engineer who quit his US job to come back to India, 35-year-old Vandana Sudhakar Dutt, a homemaker from Gurgaon, and 65-year-old…
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Times of India – 21st November, 2012 By Pinak Priya Bhattacharya SILIGURI: A group of environmental activists set out from here on a 2,000km awareness yatra on Tuesday to press for the introduction of what they are calling gross environmental product (GEP), a measure similar to GDP for monitoring India’s…
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Hindustan Times – 20th November, 2012 Indian children are more interested in protecting the environment from ill-effects of climate change than their counterparts the world over and are concerned about lack of proper sanitation and drinking water, according to a globalsurvey on children’s hopes and fears. The survey on the…
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IANS – 3rd November, 2012 Rishikesh (Uttarakhand), Nov 4 (IANS) Around 5,000 zero waste, “bio-digester” toilets will soon be coming up in villages along the 2,500-km stretch of the Ganga basin, a religious leader associated with the project said here. The project has been undertaken by the Ganga Action Plan…
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