Varanasi’s civic body has directed priests who conduct rituals for clients on the Ganga’s banks to pay a yearly registration fee of Rs 100 to reserve their wooden seats at the ghats. Such...

The rise in water levels of three major rivers has inundated unprotected areas on the banks in at least six blocks here this monsoon. In all, close to 10,000 families are affected in Malda district w...

The Centre has cancelled technical bids for a Rs 2,411-crore, four-lane bridge over the Ganga at Patna, purportedly over the partnership of Chinese firms with the bidders. The action came in the afte...

At his emergency department at 1.20am on Friday, Dhiren Gupta, a paediatrician at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here, learned that a government diktat would prevent him practising medicine the best way h...

A Delhi medical body on Saturday slammed chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for 'issuing warning' to hospitals amid rising cases of Covid-19 in the national capital, officials said.The Delhi Medical Assoc...

Few things can be as dangerous as an unscientific temper and a false sense of safety at the time of a pandemic. Worryingly, in India, such predispositions are being encouraged by the various arms of t...

The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has decided not to go ahead with the proposals forwarded by the Union Jal Shakti ministry to undertake clinical studies for treatment of Covid-19 patient...

GAIL has chalked out plans to start various hydrocarbon infrastructure projects after the lockdown ends, giving priority to high-pressure natural gas pipelines, including the Urja Ganga project connec...

How cold can it be? That’s what I thought looking at the crystal clear water gently lapping the steps of the ghat. The sun was shining so brightly that I had taken my foam jacket off. So I caught ho...

The sixth phase of Aneek’s 22nd Ganga Jamuna Utsav was held at the newly-refurbished Sivanath Sastri Sadan, or the Town Hall in Jaynagar (January 4-8). This time the focus was firmly on rural and su...