World’s largest container shipping company Maersk Line will move 16 containers on river Ganga (National Waterway-1) from Varanasi to Kolkata tomorrow. Maersk moves 12 million containers yearly across the globe. The firm is onboard India’s inland waterways for the first time. Maersk moving containers on river Ganga follows similar movements already done by firms like […]
Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Uma Bharati has said that people on the bank of the river Ganga need to take proactive charge of maintaining and raising sanitation standards so that the cleaniness of the river can be ensured. She was speaking at Ganga Gram Swachchhata Sammelan at Kannauj, in Uttar Pradesh today. […]
In order to protect the rich aquatic biodiversity of river Ganga from escalating anthropogenic pressures, development of a Turtle sanctuary in Allahabad along with a River Biodiversity Park at Sangam has been approved under Namami Gange programme. The Turtle sanctuary project at an estimated cost of Rs 1.34 crore would include development of River Biodiversity […]
A reputed US based international media house in the latest issue of its publication ‘Condé Nast Traveller’ has listed the river cruise on Ganga as one of the ‘six river cruises to take in 2017’. The media house has placed the luxury cruise vessel Ganges Voyager II which sails on the Ganga from Kolkata to […]
Sana Amin Sheikh is an established actor in the TV industry. Currently, she is playing the role of Aradhya in the hit show Krishnadasi. But her stint in the industry is long; remember she played the innocent with the hint of villain Ganga in Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya? She also had a little role in […]
