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World Bank to loan India $1 bln to clean Ganges
New Delhi :: India | 3 days ago
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The World Bank has agreed to loan India $1 billion to help clean the Ganges river, sacred to hundred of millions of Hindus and also one of the most polluted rivers in the world. "The bank would be honored to help and support India's renewed endeavor to...
Tags: world bank, The World Bank, India, Robert Zoellick, clean ganga, president robert, loans india, bank president, New Delhi, Business Finance, Environment, Development, Geography of Uttar Pradesh, Rivers of India, International development, Rigvedic rivers, Ganges, Geography of Uttarakhand, World Bank Group, Politics, Pranab Mukherjee, International Monetary Fund, Economy of India, Pollution of the Ganges, Waste legislation, Kamal Nath, United Nations General Assembly observers, Yamuna, Pollution, Council on Foreign Relations, Public economics
Delhi govt proposes projects on largest water body
New Delhi :: India | 9 days ago
Credibility After police and PWD proposed residential complexes a few years back on 60 and 42 acres of land respectively, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is eyeing the site to set up a 275 MGD water treatment plant at 100 acre area to process raw water to be supplied by...
Tags: Delhi High Court, Delhi Jal Board, New Delhi, North Delhi, water bodies, Jahangirpuri, treatment plant, largest water, water treatment, DJB, India, Environment, Water supply and sanitation in India, Delhi, Yamuna, Government of Delhi
Thousands of fish found dead in Yamuna
Āgra :: India | 17 days ago
Credibility The dead fish were spotted under a bridge on the Etawah-Gwalior road yesterday, district forest officer (DFO) Sudershan Singh said, adding this might have been due to the poisonous discharge from Mathura refinery and Agra city into the Yamuna. He expressed...
Tags: Yamuna, India, Āgra, Geography of Uttarakhand, Chambal River, Etawah, Chambal, Yamuna River, Tourism in Uttar Pradesh, Geography of Uttar Pradesh, Environment
Times of India: River may rise further today
New Delhi :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility The Yamuna water level remained above the danger mark for the second day on Sunday. It could rise further to touch the 205.6 metre mark by Monday morning, almost 80 cm above the danger level. As rescue operations continued till late evening, officials...
Court allows Indian Games village
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility The court overruled a Delhi High Court order that had put the restrictions in place because of environmental worries. Officials have warned that the country could miss out on hosting the games unless construction work gains pace. They argued that a dispute...
Tags: Supreme Court of India, The Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, Yamuna, Zeenews Bureau New Delhi, KG Balakrishnan
Times of India: Yamuna may not be clean in time for Games
New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Yamuna may not be a clean and sparkling river during the Commonwealth Games, as the government had been promising till some time back. The close to Rs 4,000 crore interceptor sewage system, being touted as the `ultimate' solution for Yamuna's woes, is...
Tags: Yamuna
Panel to assess work around Yamuna
New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Delhi High Court on Monday appointed a five-member committee under the chairmanship of noted environmental scientist R K Pachauri to assess the ecological impact of the on-going construction of Commonwealth village on the banks of river Yamuna in...
Tags: construction, Yamuna
Shivraj Patil declares Rs 5 bn relief
Bhubaneswar :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Floods in the Mahanadi river and its tributaries following incessant rains have claimed 35 lives with six deaths reported on Tuesday. Home Minister Shivraj Patil announced preliminary assistance of Rs5 billion (Rs.500 crore) for the victims after making...
Tags: The Indian, Uttar Pradesh State, Orissa, Shivraj Patil, Yamuna, danger mark, deaths toll, Mahanadi
Relief operations hit in flood-ravaged Orissa
Bhubaneswar :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Despite falling water level in Orissa rivers including the virulent Mahanadi, relief operation in flood ravaged areas was on Monday hit due to shortage of manpower and boats, worsening the plight of over six lakh marooned people. Miseries of the flood-hit...
Tags: Orissa, Mahanadi River, danger mark, Yamuna, death toll, fresh area, orissa flooding, water level, disaster management
Delhi: 50 evacuated as Yamuna rises
New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Around 50 people, mainly from slum clusters in Delhi along the Yamuna, were evacuated on Tuesday as the river continued to flow above the danger mark for the third consecutive day. People from low-lying areas in Usmanpur, Nigambodh Ghat, Sonia Vihar,...
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