Environmentalists petition Modi for declaration of Ganga as World Heritage
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Channel: Oneindia News · 2015 · People & Blogs
A group of environmentalists will be petitioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who is taking keen interest in cleaning of Ganga, to pursue with UNESCO for declaration of upper region of the holy river as a World Heritage Site. Fourteen Indian pilgrims were killed and more than two dozen others injured when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a gorge on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital on Wednesday morning. Maharashtra government has decided to appoint 'swacchata doots' in every village to help achieve the target of building 56 lakh toilets across the state over the next five years. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will travel to Saudi Arabia tomorrow in a bid to cool tempers in the Gulf kingdom over Islamabad's refusal to provide troops for Yemen war. One person was killed and at least nine others were injured when a three-storey residential building collapsed following an explosion in a cooking gas cylinder in Moti Nagar area of New Delhi.
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