The ashes of former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be immersed in various rivers across the country, beginning from Haridwar on Sunday. Vajpayee's daughter Namita Bhattacharya and granddaughter ...
Meticulous monitoring and systematic approach was required for cleaning Ganga from Haridwar to Unnao, the National Green Tribunal on Monday said as it formed a committee headed by a former ...
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttarakhand government to submit within four weeks percentage-wise compliance report on steps taken by it to clean the River Ganga in the stretch ...
Yoga Guru Ramdev on Saturday gave 'Deeksha' (initiation ceremony into asceticism) to 85 religious scholars in Haridwar on the occasion of Ram Navmi. Speaking about the benefits of fasting, the ...
The Modi government’s decision to withdraw Haj subsidy has received flak from the Muslim community. Though, a big part of Muslim population appeared to be positive about the govt decision ...
India's Kumbh Mela has been recognised by UNESCO as an "intangible cultural heritage of humanity", a tweet posted on Thursday by the international organisation said. The Intergovernmental Committee for the ...
A Haridwar-based spiritual guru, Govindadev Giriji Maharaj, has sparked a row saying a Hindu couple should have four children. Addressing a public gathering on Saturday in Karnataka's Udupi, he said, ...
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