Haridwar

The Ghaziabad Railway Junction sports an artistic facade, and an NGO and volunteers are behind this transformation.

A few villagers heard her cries and immediately knew that something was wrong. They reached the ditch and after assessing the situation, called up the Uttarakhand forest department.

In the train, which runs from Puri to Haridwar every day, travellers included Hindu saints who were injured in the accident.

With ecologically-responsible crematory processes that will consume lesser quantities of wood, these crematoriums intend to safeguard the environment along with the river.

Cleaning river Ganga is no simple task and has been the objective of many activists, environmentalists and politicians. Amid various attempts and campaigns, here's how three upcoming startups founded by young innovative Indians are working to clean up India's national river.

A daily-wage worker from Meerut searched for his missing wife on a rickety cycle for a long period of eight months and eventually found her.

This is a story of two friends, Deepak Chauhan aka DK, who is a self-taught photographer and software engineer; and Bhishma Choudhary, who quit his job in a startup for traveling. The duo travelled across India for 19 months on their bikes.

During his lifetime, Rathore planted about eight crore saplings of over 160 species. He even formed the Himalayan Green Brigade, an organisation whose volunteers planted thousands of trees in Pithoragarh.

The Kumbh Mela is a pilgrimage of faith for Hindus. The world’s largest gathering of its type, it draws lakhs of devotees from all over the country and around the globe. Know more about it.

With the view of protecting Ganga from pollution, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued a complete ban on the use of plastic from Gomukh to Haridwar, along the river.