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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicRiver pollution

Topic: River pollution

Ganga has been the lab for this BHU professor. It has earned him a global honour now

Krishan Murari -
Professor Jitendra Pandey has been invited to deliver the prestigious Sir Stephen Schneider Lecture. He is the first biological scientist and Asian scholar to receive the distinction.

Chhath devotees pray submerged in toxic Yamuna foam, anti-foam chemicals merely an eyewash

Soumya Pillai -
As part of Chhath Puja preparations, Delhi Jal Board has been sprinkling anti-foam chemicals in Yamuna. This measure, however, has no effect on river pollution levels.

Maharashtra’s holy Indrayani is now ugly green. Everyone’s playing blame game, CM to govt bodies

+TFP Manasi Phadke -
The Indrayani had started foaming in 2023 just before the Kartiki Ekadashi, when lakhs of Warkaris congregate to mark the period when Saint Dnyaneshwar entered life-long samadhi.

Five reasons that are stopping Ganga from becoming clean

Abhay Mishra -
The bureaucracy is capable enough to prove to the govt that Ganga has been completely cleaned. But that, we know, would be far from truth.

This Ganga crusader is on a fast unto death, will give up water to save the river

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
G.D. Agrawal began his fast unto death for an ‘eternal’ Ganga on 22 June. He has had only three glasses of water every day since then.

These giant machines are removing all the plastic choking India’s water bodies

Sandhya Ramesh -
The firms that deploy them work with municipalities, and the irrigation and water resource departments, and often provide end-to-end service.

Western UP river pollution: NGT tells industries to foot medical bill for the sick

Ritika Jain -
Residents in districts including Baghpat and Ghaziabad claim they are suffering from diseases such as hepatitis, cholera, liver damage and cancer.

Two MoUs signed 2 years apart, but there’s still no Yamuna sewage treatment plant in sight

Kaveesha Kohli -
The agreement involves the construction of a plant that has the capacity to treat 20 million litres of sewage per day for further use at a refinery.

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Opinion

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

Stela Dey -
The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

9.2% jump in arms transfer shows this is era of war—SIPRI reveals the temper we live in

Trump either ends Iran conflict quickly, or sky-high energy costs will force him to do so

Economy

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

Chitleen K Sethi -
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Shekhar Gupta -
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.

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