A group of seven youths from Buxar, Bihar, avoided heavy traffic by traveling 275 kilometers on the Ganga River in a ...

Brookfield sees a steady stream of visitors and a deluxe portion of love for its singular sight: A floating bridge across ...

At pontoon bridge 17, close to Sangam ... Jaiprakash Singh, 64, from Ayodhya is sitting on a plastic sheet in the open, covering himself with a blanket, near the confluence.

For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as millions descended on this northeast Indian tent city, was it a disaster ...

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After two years of talks, we are closer to securing a treaty for the ages. One that hits the problem of plastic pollution hard and protects human, planetary and economic health. A high degree of ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

Then girders were placed on them and tightened with nuts and bolts. Later, the pontoons are fitted in the right place with hydraulic machines. After this, the bridge was made stronger with thick ...

In August it was taken out of action because the boarding pontoon at Hythe, where the ferry lands, was found to have cracks underneath. Now it has been revealed it cannot be fixed and a new ...

Drawing inspiration from an ancient Persian technique, pontoon bridges are the unsung heroes at this ... required an intensive year-long effort by over 1,000 workers. Each bridge, branded a 'floating ...